Migrating from Sentinel to Atlas

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02 Feb 2016, 14:59

Hi!

I'm trying to see if it's feasible to migrate a current Sentinel based project to Atlas without too much effort.

I can see that both layouts use the ContainerX, WidX and Responsive CSS classes as the main "layout" elements. With this setup I'm thinking it shouldn't be too much work!

However I see the following:
1. In my Sentinel project I use the "ContainerIndent" class a lot. This class is not used in Atlas. Does this mean that I can just remove/replace all divs with ContainerIndent once I have converted to Atlas?
2. There is a lot of new features in the Atlas layout that I have not used before. Have I set my self up for a lot of work if I want to implement these on a Sentinel based project?

Any input on these questions would be highly appreciated! :) Perhaps I can write a small conversion/migration guide if I choose to do this!
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02 Feb 2016, 22:08

I can see that both layouts use the ContainerX, WidX and Responsive CSS classes as the main "layout" elements. With this setup I'm thinking it shouldn't be too much work!
Yes, all layouts share the ContainerX apis. core-layout evolves with new layouts.

1) ContainerIndent is removed in recent layouts, we've added padding to Container{Number} and also introduced NoIndent that removes any padding from an element as a helper. Also Card has padding so Atlas doesn't use ContainerIndent at all. Goal was to avoid extra markup.

To do a quick test, you can grab the source code of core-layout in Atlas;

http://www.primefaces.org/atlas/javax.f ... las-layout

And then paste it to your Sentinel based app to see if there are breaking changes.

2) Features such as?

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08 Feb 2016, 16:43

Hi,

Sorry for the slow reply!

After careful consideration I opted to go for Spark instead and the migration from Sentinel is going great :-) I really like the thinking behind the core-layout as it is easy to understand and reuse in other themes/templates.

Regarding question 2 I was thinking about Flex containers. However I looked more into it and discovered that the only dependency there were 2 CSS classes. So I have snatched them from Atlas and they are working great in a Spark environment too! :D
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09 Feb 2016, 15:48

Glad to hear, by the way menu hover enhancement for Atlas is done and will be released tomorrow.

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