Yahoo! UI Library in IC Webclient

Question

Hi,
I'm about to develop an own view, for a contact subject input in IC Webclient. The subjects (reasons) are arranged in four layers (Layer 1 'til Layer 4). Every subject consists of the catalog, codegroup and code. Together the build, in the first Level, the contact reason, in the second level, the first result, in third comes the second result and finaly media.
I considered for a long time back and forth, and came to the result, that there is nothing in the SAP library to be sufficient enough, to display this subject combination. Travelling through the web, I found the
<a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/">Yahoo! UI Library (YUI)</a>, which, I thought, fits me needs. I immediatly built a page with flow logic and implemented the YUI. The result was perfect. I had a menu widget, just like the start menu of Windows XP.
But when I try to put the code into a IC Webclient view, I always get a JavaScript error.
Long speech, short sense, my question is: where do I have to include the JavaScript to get full use of the YUI?
Of course I will revard points for an answer
If I found it out in the meantime, I will surely post the solution.
Regards
Mathias
Oh, I forgot, I'm using CRM 5.0
Message was edited by:
        Mathias Schneider

Answer 1

Mathias,
I see the script files location as :
<script type="text/javascript" src="yui/yahoo/yahoo.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="yui/event/event.js" ></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="yui/dom/dom.js" ></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="yui/container/container.js"></script>
This is due to missing libraries hence you would be getting "Object expected" or "Object is undefined" errors.
You need to include these files before the Yahoo layout code is processed.
For ex: in the standard view "Workviewset.htm" you could copy all these scripts.(Don't modify it, rather copy it in your own BSP application)
After that, have you created following folders in mime :
1.  yui/yahoo    (then upload file "yahoo.js" into this )
2.  yui/event     (then upload file "event.js" into this )
3. yui/dom        (then upload file "dom.js" into this )
4. yui/container  (then upload file "container.js" into this )
A sample to create "yui/yahoo" is :
Create folder "Yui" in you applications mime. Then in folder "Yui" create folder "yahoo".
Repeat this process for all scripts and then try running.
Let me know if you are comfortable copying and replcaing standar view (Its there in ICWC Cookbook) & any other isse you face.
Till then...
Cheers,
Ankur