CoreMedia Studio Manual, Version 7.5.45-10
7.11. Customizing the Library Window | 7.11.1. Defining List View Columns in Repository Mode

The list view of the library window is implemented using an Ext JS grid panel. A grid panel aggregates columns that refer to fields of an underlying store. For adding a new column, you usually have to add both a column definition and a field definition.

Although the editor context in the form of the interface IEditorContext allows a direct configuration in the form of the methods addListViewDataField and setRepositoryListViewColumns, the recommended way of defining columns uses the configureListViewPlugin in an EXML file containing Studio plugin. CoreMedia Blueprint defines custom columns of the repository mode in the file LibraryStudioPlugin.exml:

<ui:rules>
...
  <editor:startup>
    <plugins>
      <editor:configureListViewPlugin>
        ...
        <editor:repositoryListViewColumns>
          <editor:listViewTypeIconColumn width="75" showTypeName="true"/>
          <editor:listViewNameColumn sortable="true"/>
          <editor:listViewStatusColumn width="46"/>
          <editor:listViewCreationDateColumn width="120" sortable="true"/>
          <editor:freshnessColumn sortable="true" hidden="true"/>
        </editor:repositoryListViewColumns>
        ...
      </editor:configureListViewPlugin>
    </plugins>
  </editor:startup>
...
</ui:rules>

The property repositoryListViewColumns lists all columns that should be displayed (not just the ones you want to add to the default) in the repository mode. Some columns in this example use predefined components from the Editor SDK, whereas some special columns use just a configured Ext JS standard grid column.

The listViewTypeColumn, listViewNameColumn, listViewCreationDateColumn, and freshnessColumn columns represent the standard columns that would be present without additional configuration (id and width of the column has to be defined if necessary), displaying a document's type, name, date of creation, and modification date, respectively. The listViewStatusColumn component represents an additional column that displays a document's lifecycle status (in production, approved, ...) and checked-out state. These columns can be made sortable by setting the attribute sortable to true. To enable sorting for other columns have a look at Section 7.11.6, “Make Columns Sortable in Search and Repository View”.