• Templating and Integration Guide
  • Part 1: Concepts
    • The "Everything is Content" Paradigm
      • Content items are objects with properties that correspond to a type
      • Nodes are stored in workspaces, organized in trees
    • The rendering flow
      • To render a node, you need a view
      • To render a page, you need a template
    • Modules are packages used to deploy “code” into Jahia
    • The Jahia actors
      • Content flow
  • Part 2: Modules
    • What is a module?
    • Module type
    • Module creation
    • Anatomy of a module
    • Adding classes and Jars in modules
    • Spring files
  • Part 3: Templates and Studio
    • Introduction to templates
    • Studio
      • Studio overview
    • Creating a template-set
      • Using the Maven archetype
      • Using Eclipse
      • Using Jahia Studio
      • Update the Maven project when templates are modified in the Studio
    • Building templates
      • There are 3 different kind of templates
      • Main Resource and template resolution
      • Areas in detail
      • Content templates in details
      • Bound Components
    • CSS style sheets and design
      • Preparing your stylesheet
      • Including stylesheets in templates
      • Managing different stylesheets depending on the context
      • Print friendly CSS
      • CSS frameworks and handmade XHTML
    • Themes
      • How it works
    • Skins
      • Creating skins
      • Skin rendering
  • Part 4: Content Definitions and Views
    • Definitons
      • NodeType
      • Namespaces
      • Supertypes
      • Options
      • Node Type properties
      • Input masks
      • Default values
      • Initializers
      • Validators
      • Abstract types
      • In practice: create the node type definition for dogs
    • Views
      • NodeType folders
      • Output formats
      • Default view
      • Other views
      • Modules versus Components
      • Module packaging and deployement
    • Managing URLs in scripts
    • Managing lists
      • Summary for a simple list
      • Using list views
    • Managing and customizing navigation menus
      • Menu Rendering
      • Customization
  • Part 5: Advanced Techniques
    • Search and queries
      • Full text queries using search tag libraries
      • Queries
      • In practice: creating a custom search component
    • Forms
      • Principles
      • Form data parameters
      • In practice: Transform a custom HTML form into a Jahia valid form step by step
    • Macros
      • Macro implementation languages
      • Typical usage
    • Caches
  • Part 6: Setting up an integration environment
    • Software Requirements
    • Maven configuration for Eclipse IDE
    • Maven External Configuration
    • Creating a template set
  • Part 7: Step by step integration
    • Cutting of the mockup
    • Integration of the Base
    • CSS / Javascript integration
    • Creating the content zones
  • Further reading and resources

Typical usage

Macros can be very useful for editors to that need dynamically changing values (stock price, weather, revenues…) or to interact with users and offer a more compelling user experience (display the current user name or it’s country for instance).