Brands
Although templates may be specified individually within calls to Sundial's interfaces, Sundial provides a mechanism of aggregating multiple templates as well as all elements and information sources necessary to support these templates through the concept of brands.
Brands allow groups to group templates and other elements in support of the product or identity they wish to present. Through brand, specified symbols, words, look & feels, or behaviors can be maintained between calls to the calendars interfaces through the specification of a pre-defined brand as identified within the administrative templates function of Sundial.
Sundial brands encapsulate customizations of the calendar functionality in support of transparently maintaining a brand's identity.
Brand additionally simplify and shorten calls to Sundial's interfaces. For example, the following call to the event retrieval interface:
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webapi/get.php?header=http://www.myserver.dot/sundialTemplates/header.tpl& footer=http://www.myserver.dot/sundialTemplates/footer.tpl& eventListing=http://www.myserver.dot/sundialTemplates/eventListing.tpl& eventDetail=http://www.myserver.dot/sundialTemplates/eventDetail.tpl |
might be re-specified as such:
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webapi/get.php?brand=myGroup |
were a brand named "myGroup" established.