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Introduction
The front end of a Blueriq application is defined by the theme that is selected at startup. This page gives a short overview of different themes and their configuration.
Themes
Currently there are different themes that can be used, which are:
- Bootstrap3 (default)
- Bootcards
- Dashboard / Forms
In the following paragraphs more information will be given on the mentioned themes.
Bootstrap3
This is the default theme for all projects. This is version 2 of the MVC UI theme.
Sessions
This theme supports multiple sessions: it consists out of a main session (the actual dashboard) and a session per widget. A widget can be added by the use of the AQ_DashboardFlowWidget container. The dashboard session is the main session and is the session rendering the initial page. The main session creates a subscription to the SessionService, and for each of the widgets a new Blueriq session is created and registered to that same subscription. Whenever a page event is triggered on any of the sessions, all page events for all sessions will be returned to the client and distributed to the corresponding widget viewmodels. The widget models then process the page events and that causes the update to the widgets.
Widget Communication
Widgets can communicate with each other through the message bus. The message bus is available both server and client side: The server side message bus can be used for business logic while the client side message bus can be used for technical solutions (such as refreshing a widget on a particular event).
Configuration
Bootcards
The bootcards theme is designed specifically for mobile applications, but it runs on desktops as well. More information on this theme can be found at bootcards.org.
Enable
You have to add the theme to your configuration to enable it.
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Dashboard
The Blueriq dashboard theme is built on top of the default forms components used in the forms theme. The difference with the forms theme is that the dashboard theme supports multiple sessions: it consists out of a main session (the actual dashboard) and a session per widget. A widget can be added by the use of the AQ_DashboardFlowWidget container.
Sessions
The dashboard session is the main session and is the session rendering the initial page. The main session creates a subscription to the SessionService, and for each of the widgets a new Blueriq session is created and registered to that same subscription. Whenever a page event is triggered on any of the sessions, all page events for all sessions will be returned to the client and distributed to the corresponding widget viewmodels. The widget models then process the page events and that causes the update to the widgets.
Widget Communication
Widgets can communicate with each other through the message bus. The message bus is available both server and client side: The server side message bus can be used for business logic while the client side message bus can be used for technical solutions (such as refreshing a widget on a particular event).
Enable
To enable this style, make sure the following lines are existing in your dashboard.properties
(or in application.properties
).
mvc.versionUsed=v1 mvc.themes=dashboard mvc.dashboard.templateGroupFile=UI/mvc/v1/dashboard.stg mvc.dashboard.templateName=main
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Forms
The theme 'forms' had been the standard for MVC UI. This theme contains all default Blueriq UI components and standard functionality for e.g. flowing and refreshes. Note that this theme does not support dashboard styling.
Enable
To enable this style, make sure the following lines are existing in your application.properties
.
mvc.versionUsed=v1 mvc.themes=forms mvc.forms.templateGroupFile=UI/mvc/v1/forms.stg mvc.forms.templateName=main
The theme 'forms' had been the standard for MVC UI. This theme contains all default Blueriq UI components and standard functionality for e.g. flowing and refreshes. Note that this theme does not support dashboard styling.
Enable
To enable this style, make sure the following lines are existing in your application.properties
.
mvc.versionUsed=v1 mvc.themes=forms mvc.forms.templateGroupFile=UI/mvc/v1/forms.stg mvc.forms.templateName=main