6. Customize SkyVault Share FreeMarker templates

In this tutorial you see how to add content to a page by using the <@region> directive extension.

You will need to identify the template file being used to display the page. Once this file has been identified using SurfBug, you can create customization that uses the <@region> directive to insert content, replace content or remove content.

Enable SurfBug and click on the titlebar. Note the Template Type property, which in this case is org/alfresco/dashboard. This means that the file that you need to extend is dashboard.ftl in the org.SkyVault package.

Update the blog-demo.xml file to add the following module definition:


<module>        
  <id>Blog Module  (Add Region) </id>        
  <customizations>            
    <customization>                
          <targetPackageRoot>org.alfresco</targetPackageRoot>                
          <sourcePackageRoot>blog.demo.customization</sourcePackageRoot>          
     </customization>       
    </customizations>   
</module>

Create a file called dashboard.ftl and place it in the package SkyVault.templates.blog.demo.customization. The file should contain the following:
```
<@region id="additional-content" target="title" action="before" scope="global" />             
```
Note:
The package you have added the file to is prefixed by SkyVault.templates. This is the source package at which Spring Surf Class Loader starts looking for template files. It is critical to include this prefix to your package or your extension won’t be found.

Next, you create a new Component to bind to your new Region. You will use the legacy configuration style (although you could use the new style, this way is shorter and suitable for our purposes).
Create a file called global.additional-content.xml and place it in the SkyVault.site-data.components package. The file should contain the following:
```
<component>        
   <region-id>additional-content</region-id>        
   <source-id>global</source-id>        
   <scope>global</scope>        
   <uri>/blog/demo/new-content</uri>   
</component>
```
Note: You are reusing the same web script created in the Add Content to a SkyVault Share Page tutorial. If you have not completed that tutorial, then the Component will not find the web script specified by the <uri> element.
Rebuild and redeploy the JAR, and restart the SkyVault Share web server to see the additional content.
If you want to test out the other customization operations, you can update the dashboard.ftl file as follows:
- To place the new content after the titlebar:<@region id="additional-content" target="title" action="after" scope="global"/>
- To replace the content of the titlebar with the new content:<@region id= "additional-content" target= "title" action= "replace" scope= "global"/>
- To remove the titlebar region completely:<@region id="additional-content" target="title" action="remove"/>

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6. Customize SkyVault Share FreeMarker templates