Gears Cheat Sheet
Preferred Dimension
Used to determine default region in a page layout
height = short | tall | nopreference width = narrow | wide | nopreference
Gear Modes
May have a servlet for each gear mode, specified in the gear-mode node of the gear manifest
| Gear Mode | User | Location | Purpose | Example |
| install | Portal Admin | Portal Admin-> Gears-> configure |
Configure resources for all instances of the gear | Allow the admin to specify the database resource for your gear to use |
| instanceConfig | Community Leader | Community Page-> Administer-> Edit Page-> Gear Name-> configure-> Configure |
Configure resources for this instance | Allow the community leader to specify which item(s) in the database this gear will use: Which poll, which forums, etc. |
| initialConfig | Not typically used - the mode that allows configuration of the gear at the time the gear instance is created by a Community Leader | |||
| userConfig | Click 'Edit' on gear header (titlebar_template.jsp) | Specify user params | Allow the user to specify which stocks to show in this user's stocks gear | |
| content | Community page | display content | Show today's weather based on the prevailing configuration | |
| about | Custom link in the gear or modify titlebar_template.jsp to display an 'About' button | author, copyright, and version | "ATG Stock Gear, Version 2.0 copyright 2001" | |
| help | Custom link from the gear or modify titlebar_template.jsp to display an 'Help' button | help information for the gear | Click on 'update' to refresh the displayed stock prices | |
