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A custom User Input Panel is an xml file and commonly named userInputSpec.xml.

Step 1 - Introduce the custom panel

To use a custom user input panel you have to add the following xml code to the install.xml:

<panels>
	...
	<panel classname="UserInputPanel"/>
	...
</panels>

Put the panel tag in the right order of your panels defined in the panels tag. Now specify the location of the userInputSpec.xml in the resources tag of the instal.xml.

<resources>
	...	
	<res id="userInputSpec.xml" src="userInputSpec.xml" />
	...
<resources>

 

Step 2 - userInputSpec.xml skeleton

<userInput>
    <panel order="0" layout="left">
        <field type="text" variable="value1">
            ...
        </field>
    </panel>
</userInput>

This xml code should be put in the userINputSpec.xml file. This is the skeleton description of a custom user input panel.

XML TagDescription
<userInput>
Root tag
<panel>
Definition of a panel; You can have multiple panels defined in the <userInput>
<field>

Definiton of a gui element; One gui elemen per <field >

 

Step 3 - Supported input elements

ElementDescriptionCodeScreenshot
Text Input 
<field type="text" variable="textInput">
  <description align="left" txt="A description for a text input field"
      id="description.text"/>
  <spec txt="Enter some text:" id="text.label" size="15" set="some text"/>
</field>
Combo Box 
<field type="combo" variable="radioSelection">
  <description align="left" txt="This is a description for radio buttons"
            id="description.radio"/>
  <spec>
          <choice txt="the first choice" id="radio.label.1" value="1 selected" />
          <choice txt="the second choice" id="radio.label.2" value="2 selected" set="true" />
          <choice txt="the third choice" id="radio.label.3" value="3 selected" />
          <choice txt="the fourth choice" id="radio.label.4" value="4 selected" />
  </spec>
Radio Buttons 
<field type="radio" variable="radioSelection">
  <description align="left" txt="This is a description for radio buttons"
            id="description.radio"/>
  <spec>
          <choice txt="the first choice" id="radio.label.1" value="1 selected" />
          <choice txt="the second choice" id="radio.label.2" value="2 selected" set="true" />
          <choice txt="the third choice" id="radio.label.3" value="3 selected" />
          <choice txt="the fourth choice" id="radio.label.4" value="4 selected" />
  </spec>
</field>
Check Box 
 <field type="check" variable="checkSelection.1">
  <description align="left" txt="This is a description for a check box"
            id="description.check.1"/>
  <spec txt="check box 1" id="check.label.1" true="on" false="off"
      set="false"/>
</field>
Password 
<field type="password" align="left" variable="the.password">
  <spec>
    <pwd txt="The Password:" size="25" set=""/>
    <pwd txt="Retype Password:" size="25" set=""/>
  </spec>
</field>
File 
<field type="file" align="left" variable="the.file">
  <spec txt="" size="25" set=""/>
</field>
<field type="staticText" align="left" txt="Existing SSL keystore to import:"/>
 <field type="file" align="left" variable="existing.ssl.keystore">
   <spec txt="" size="25" set="$myconfig" />
 </field>

 

 

Multiple files   
Directory 
<field type="dir" align="left" variable="existing.jboss.home">
  <spec txt="" size="25" set="$INSTALL_PATH$FILE_SEPARATOR${jboss.version}" mustExist="false" />
</field>
Rule Input Field   
Search Field   
ElementDescriptionCodeScreenshot
Static Text 
<field type="staticText" align="left"
       txt="This is just some simple static text with variable substitution in here: $myvariable."
       id="staticText.text"/>
Title   
Space 
<field type="space" />
 
Divider 
<field type="divider" />
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