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Using the CMS Application Decorator

A solution for dynamic content

While the CMS is great at managing static web content, it doesn't handle web applications or dynamic content. Any dynamic content will need to remain on your own web server. To provide a seamless web experience for your users, we have deverloped an application decorator that mimics your CMS site by providing the same header, top navigation, search functionality, and footer. We will set up an automic publishing job so the application decorator stays in sync with your CMS site.

Using the decorator

  1. Ask the campusweboffice team to set up the _decorator-html folder on your CMS site.
  2. Add the following to the head element on your application site:

    <script type="text/javascript"
        src="http://uxt.ucsd.edu/common/jquery/1.4.4/jquery-1.4.4.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
        src="//act.ucsd.edu/decorators/cms/2/decorate.js?siteName=
YOURSITENAME"></script>
  3. Publish the _decorator-html folder. (When your site is launched, the campus web office will set up an automatic nightly publish job to accomplish this.)

Ex: See a sample decorator for the Red Ribbon Dance Project site (site name=rrdp).

Questions?

Contact the Campus Web Office.