WEF and Custom HTML
Working with custom HTML is probably one of the most common patterns I've seen when building an application with web experience factory (WEF). Typically this is a situation where I'm given a really nice HTML stub from a professional web designer and I need to build an application around it. Don't Fight with WEF A common mistake I see all the time is a web developer trying to untangle or intercept the code generated by WEF. Don't do it, you're going to lose your mind or create an unmaintainable mess (or both). Here are a few tips that should help: 1 - Turn off the theme 2 - Don't let the data page builder create the UI 3 - Learn how to exploit page automation Turn off the Theme There are two ways to accomplish this, adding a theme builder to your model and selecting the individual components, or blanking out the theme file name in the project's override.properties . The theme is great when using WEF's default user interface, but it just gets in the way of...