Module Structure

Module Configuration File

A module exists by defining its configuration files. There is one top-level node <I2CEConfiguration> under which there are two possible nodes:

• The #metadata tag is required.
• The <configurationGroup> tag is optional.

The <I2CEConfiguration> tag has a required attribute name whose values should be a unique short name to describe this module such as I2CE, ihris-manage or my_custom_module. The DTD which describes the format of the configuration file is located in I2CE/lib/I2CE_Configuration.DTD.

metadata

The DTD has for the <metadata> tag allows the following nodes:

<!ELEMENT metadata (#displayName,#className?,#category?,#description?,#creator?,#email?,#link?,#version,(#enable|[#requirement]]|#conflict|#path)*,#priority?)>

For the most part, the orders of these tags matter due to limitations in the structure of DTDs. The exceptions is that the <enabled>, <requirement>, <conflict> and <path> tags can be listed in any order amongst themselves.

displayName

This tag is requireed it is human readable name of this module which is displayed, for example, in the Configure Modules pa

Example: <displayName>Popup Box</displayName>

className

The tag is optional and it associates a class for the module. See #The Module Class for specific information about the module's class

Example: <className>I2CE_Module_JavascriptPopup</className>

category

This is an optional tag that is used to group similar modules together by category in the Configure Modules page.

Example: <category>Javascript Library</category>

description

This is an optional tag which gives a description of this module which is displayed in the Configure Modules page.

Example: <description>Provides a javascript popup box</description>

creator

This is an optional tag which shows the creator in the Configure Modules page.

Example: <creator>Freddy Mercury</creator>

link

This is an optional tag which gives a URL for the module in the 'Configure Modules page.

Example: <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury</link>

version

This is a required tag which you can use to version your module.

Example: <version>1.0.0</version>

Configuration (Magic) Data

See Technical Overview: Configuration (Magic) Data for more background information.