Handling of Existing Files When Applying a Page Template
When you use a custom page template in an OpenUI Shell project that contains existing resources, Designer mergers certain files. When particular files exist both in the applied template and at destination paths in the target project, Designer appends the content of the new file to the content of the existing file.
Note: Merging new and existing files does not remove duplicate elements from the output file. You must ensure that the final file does not contain duplicate elements.
The following table shows the types of files that are merged in the target project and the destination path of each merged file of a particular type.
Type of File | Destination Path |
xmlImport files |  WebContent/WEB-INF/before_upgrade/*/*.xml WebContent/WEB-INF/dataSources.xml WebContent/WEB-INF/xmlImport.xml WebContent/WEB-INF/config/xmlImport.xml WebContent/WEB-INF/xmlImport/*.xml WebContent/WEB-INF/after_upgrade/*/*.xml |
faces-config descriptor files | WebContent/WEB-INF/faces-config.xml |
web descriptor files | WebContent/WEB-INF/web.xml |
portlet descriptor files | WebContent/WEB-INF/portlet.xml WebContent/WEB-INF/wm-portlet.xml |
web service connector clients descriptor files | WebContent/WEB-INF/wsclients.xml |
For all other files that exist at the destination path, Designer ignores the files in the applied page template and uses the exiting files in the project instead.