Introduction To Customization And Packaging - H-Sphere Customization Guide

Advanced interface customization is what goes beyond the scope of the Control Panel settings. It is performed on the H-Sphere CP server by designers and programmers with administrative rights, in order to create or modify H-Sphere interface elements.

Packaging allows to create installable plugins, or packages. This is a way to share custom elements between H-Sphere installations. Third parties can use it to develop and distribute plugins that add new or extend/override standard H-Sphere functionalities. Documentation on building packages is introduced in H-Sphere Developer Guide. .

Customizable Elements

Description

Customization

Packaging

Templates

Design and control patterns for dynamic HTML generation. They are to be modified if you need to restructure the layout of certain pages of the Control Panel interface, or to change the look of the Control Panel header and footer.

• Template Customization

Template Packages

System E-Mail Notifications

A special type of templates used to generate standard email notifications sent by H-Sphere.

• System E-Mail Customization (Templates)
• Editing System E-Mails in CP

N/A

Context Help

A special type of templates to generate context help for certain elements of the Control Panel interface.

• Context Help
• Changing Context Help Language

Template Packages

Interface Texts

Standard messages and labels that appear on the interface pages are placed in the special configuration files and may be set for different languages.

• Interface Text Customization
• Compiling Language Bundles

Custom Packages

H-Sphere Languages

Adding new languages to the interface and modifying language files with interface texts in different languages.

• Adding New Languages
• Compiling Language Bundles

Custom Packages

Menu

Generating and modifying control panel menus and submenus and adding external links to the menu.

• Menu Customization
• XML Merge Customization

XML Customization With Packages

Skins And Icon Sets (Designs)

H-Sphere interface design has a broader meaning than just configuration of certain color schemes and the corresponding icon sets, what is called the skin. It also determines the set of skins available for this design, specifies the sets of icons in the Quick Access page and enables to override the standard settings with the custom ones.

• Skin And Icon Set Customization
• XML Merge Customization

XML Customization With Packages

CP Crons

H-Sphere utilities regularily executed on the Control Panel server.

• Custom CP Crons
• XML Merge Customization

XML Customization With Packages

Plan Wizards

Custom plan wizards defined and configured in XML documents.

• Creating Custom XML Plan Wizards
• XML Merge Customization

XML Customization With Packages

Merchant Gateways

The media for making real-time payments with online credit card processing centers automatically from the CP.

• Adding Custom Merchant Gateways

Custom Packages

Web Payment Systems

The media for making payments manually from the web interface of the payment systems.

• Adding Custom Web Payment Systems

Custom Packages

Signup Forms

Generating custom signup forms to sign up users aside from the standard signup procedure provided in H-Sphere, as well as modifying the standard signup pages.

• User Signup Customization

Custom Packages

WARNING:
1. Advanced customization may produce unpredictable results after updating H-Sphere, since updates affect the template structure and the page generation.
2. Advanced customization performed by H-Sphere customers is done at their own risk and is not supported by the PSoft team.
3. You may order customization from the PSoft team. Such customization is supported hereafter. Please contact sales@psoft.net for pricing details.