Creating Catalogue Templates

In essence, the Catalog is no more than another Lesson, with special properties that allow objects in the Catalog to be imported into other lessons.

You can add to the Catalog lesson exactly as you would edit one of your own lessons.

There are two additional system calls that are available in the Catalog to handle the import of objects. These are importCatalogObject(id), which imports the object with given id onto the lesson page, and importCatalogResource(name), which imports the resource file with name ‘name’ into the lesson library. Note that resources must be imported before an object if the object depends on the existence of the resource for proper display.

For additional tips for add to the Catalog templates, review some of the template pages that have already been created.  View the objects’ properties as a guide to creating your own template pages.  As with any other lesson, you are able to Copy and Paste catalog objects into your own Catalog pages.