1. Create an application

Go to the administration interface of NRS and select the 'Templates' tab. Create a new application called 'myapp' by creating a new template of type 'application' and with a name 'myapp/app'. After creating it, select 'myapp'. You are now in the application template for the new 'myapp' application. From here you can add new templates to your 'myapp' application.

2. Add a news template

Create a news template by selecting type 'news' and name 'news'. Notice the tab navigation appears, now that there are 2 groups in the application.

3. Configure news template

Select the 'edit' link for the 'news' template, and under snippets, add a url to a news source: http://www.news.com. Click the 'save button' to add it. Now click the 'edit' link next to your new news source, and specify a parse rule to extract the news off the page: <title link><desc><date label="PST"> Click 'save' and then 'back to template'. You can now click 'back to template list' and select your news template by clicking on the 'news' link. You have just added a news source!

4. Add a search template

Now click on the 'app' tab to return to your application's editor, and add a search page by creating a new template of type 'search' and name 'search'. Click the 'edit' link next to 'search' and add a search url under searches: http://www.google.com . Click 'save' and then 'back to template list'. To test your search page, select the 'search' link and try a search. For searches, the system will try to extract the search results automatically. If this does not work well enough you can specify a parse rules like you did for the news source to improve the results returned. Specifying a parse rule also lets you extract metadata such as date and size along with the search results.

5. Add more templates

Now you get the idea, you can add directory pages and other templates to your application. You can also hide the 'app' template from users by specifying in its properties the IP/Username of the application administrator.

When adding new templates you specify a name or a path. If you only specify a name, your template will assume the 'group' property of the template to be the same as the given name. The 'group' property controls which tab the template falls under. When multiple templates fall under the same tab, a drop-down list appears with all templates of the same tab. Using the 'app', 'group', and 'name' properties of a template you can control building applications with a tab bar interface. In the URL namespace, a template with app=A, group=B, and name=C would result in a URL path of /A/B/C.

6. Change HTML

Templates are rendered into HTML using XSL files. You can replace the logo on all pages in your application by using the 'group set' function. Specify a filename of a text file containing new XSL for either the whole file, or just the section you wish to override. In this case put in the file a new logo section:
<xsl:template name="drawlogo">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#7C8C93"><img alt="" src="/dot.gif" width="1" height="116"/></td>
<td><img alt="logo" src="http://www.mysite.com/mylogo.gif"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</xsl:template>

The url to your new image would be placed in the anchor's href. If you want the system to serve the image, you can place it in the application directory or create a directory under the application directory called images for example.

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