Portlet Factory, Version 6.1.2

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Frame builder

Use the Frame builder to specify the content of an HTML frame. You can use the Frame builder whenever you need to display two or more separate HTML pages simultaneously within the same browser window. A common example is a "table of contents" or "navigation" frame located at the top or left of the browser window and a content or text frame to its right. This table of contents frame typically contains buttons or links, which when clicked update the contents of the other frame.

The Frame builder produces at run time the FRAME tag with its source attribute (src) given the appropriate value (for example, frame name="top" src='< =webAppAccess.getActionURL("TopPage")>' /frame , where TopPage is the builder call name of the page to be imported). When the page is displayed, the frame referenced by this tag will display the page from the given source.

 

Quick tips

• The page on which you place this builder needs to have a frameset defined.

• To change the Frame builder's source, select a new value from the WebApp Action Name drop-down menu.

• When you specify the control tag for a Frame builder, make sure the control tag is within the Frameset tag, for example:

  html Frameset rows="30%,*" span name="top" / span name="bottom" /
  /Frameset
  /html

  where

  • The top span name is for the Frame builder that displays the top frame.

  • The bottom span name is for the Frame builder that displays the bottom frame.

• Do not use the Inserted Page builder to insert a page containing one or more frames into another page. You cannot have nested frames within a page.

• About using the builder call editor

  The builder call editor allows you to specify all the input values to a builder call.

• Locating control builder calls on pages

  Each page location technique results in the generation of a Page Location string that determines on what pages, and where on those pages, the control builder calls are added.

• Frame builder inputs

  This topic describes the inputs for the Frame builder.

• Overview: creating pages

  Pages in IBM® WebSphere Portlet Factory models can be obtained from outside the model or created as you work in the model.

Parent topic: Builder help

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