AppSuite:Developing for the UI

Developing The Appsuite User Interface

This portal contains articles about the inner workings of the web-based graphical user interface. It is aimed at software developers that want to improve on existing features, implement extensions or just gain a general understanding.

Tech Overview

All technologies and frameworks used for developing the UI are listed and described in the following article: Skills needed to develop the UI

In addition to those UI developing technologies you also need the environment for running (at least parts of) the appsuite locally. Therefore you can either copy the source from openxchange git repositories and host it locally using apache or run Appserver (with local parts of the appsuite) automaticly getting the recent stable source packages from the appsuite servers.

Developing Style Guide

While developing code for OX products the UI Developement Style Guide helps you writing safe, clear and functional code.

Designing apps, plugins and widgets running with the right layout, colors, look and feel is a breeze following the guidelines described in the UI Design Guide.

Always keep in mind, that using OX products should be possible for everyone and therefor it's important to follow simple rules regarding accessibility.

Writing apps or plugins for appsuite will often include extending the existing user interface. Appsuite provides extension points offering you possibilties to add your own contents. Beginning to develop using extension points? Read this guide first having a hands-on introduction for extending the OX user interface. Get more information and a complete list of extension points offered by OX products.

How to get code

Using git as a version version control system getting the code from existing OX products is quite easy. Simply clone the UI or the backend repository and start working with it.

What can i build?

There are several ways to develop for AppSuite. A portal plugin let's you build a widget, which can be used in the 'portal'-section of appsuite only. Configuring these portal plugins following this guide. If you want