Are you using circuits.cfm as per Hal's suggestion from his site?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Renet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 7:28 PM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: Extended Fusebox -- A bump in the road....
>
>
> Okay how does XFB handle nested applications?
>
> For example
>
> The fuseaction admin.home would take me to the directory admin
> and then find
> the fuseaction home on the index.cfm.
>
> So now we are in the /admin folder
>
> This folder has subdirectories for say PEOPLE, DEPARTMENTS, PROJECTS, or
> whatever.
>
> Each sub directory is its own application and in so much has its own
> fuseactions.
>
> Now normally I would handle this by having a cascading list of fuseactions
> in the index.cfm switches
>
> That is on the root index.cfm I would have
>
> <cfcase value="admin,adminValidate,adminThis,AdminThat," delimiters=",">
> <cfinclude template="admin/index.cfm">
> </cfcase>
> <cfcase value="Adminprojects,AdminprojectsThis,AdminprojectsThat"
> delimiters=",">
> <cfinclude template="admin/index.cfm">
> </cfcase>
> <cfcase value="Admindepartments,AdmindepartmentsThis,AdmindepartmentsThat"
> delimiters=",">
> <cfinclude template="admin/index.cfm">
> </cfcase>
> <cfcase value="Adminpeople,AdminpeopleThis,AdminpeopleThat"
> delimiters=",">
> <cfinclude template="admin/index.cfm">
> </cfcase>
> --The reason I use 3 separate cases is so that I can easily disable the
> fuses.
>
> In the admin folder the nested applications would be like this:
>
> <cfcase value="Adminprojects,AdminprojectsThis,AdminprojectsThat"
> delimiters=",">
> <cfinclude template="projects/index.cfm">
> </cfcase>
> <cfcase value="Admindepartments,AdmindepartmentsThis,AdmindepartmentsThat"
> delimiters=",">
> <cfinclude template="departments/index.cfm">
> </cfcase>
> <cfcase value="Adminpeople,AdminpeopleThis,AdminpeopleThat"
> delimiters=",">
> <cfinclude template="people/index.cfm">
> </cfcase>
>
> So to do the same thing in EXB, you would have to have
> fuseactions that look
> like admin.projects.projectsThis
>
> So using ListLast(attributes.fuseaction,'.') and
> ListFirst(attributes.fuseaction,'.') in the index pages doesn't work.
>
> One of the reasons I use fusebox is because I subcontract a lot of work.
> Some of those subcontracted apps, themselves have mini apps. The way I am
> currently integrating this allows for two things:
>
> a) individual directory security that is cfapplication based and LDAP
> integrated.
> b) the ability to just plugin apps no matter how many
> subapplications/directories they contain
>
> So, how is this handled in XFB? I really like the idea of XFB, but this
> seems to be a bump in the road. Do we just make a tag that drops
> the first
> thing in the list in each subdirectory? And always use
> ListFirst(attributes.fuseaction,'.') in all index.cfm's
>
> That is:
> a fuseaction that is admin.projects.projectsThis
>
> /
> --- index.cfm----
> <cfswitch expression="#ListFirst(attributes.fuseaction,'.')#">
> <cfcase value="admin" delimiters=",">
> <cfinclude template="admin/index.cfm">
> </cfcase>
> </cfswitch>
>
> /admin
> --- index.cfm----
> <cfset attributes.fuseaction = listdeleteat(attributes.fuseaction, 1)>
>
> ----the fuseaction becomes projects.projectsThis---
>
> <cfswitch expression="#ListFirst(attributes.fuseaction,'.')#">
> <cfcase value="projects" delimiters=",">
> <cfinclude template="projects/index.cfm">
> </cfcase>
> </cfswitch>
>
> /admin/projects
> <cfset attributes.fuseaction = listdeleteat(attributes.fuseaction, 1)>
>
> ----the fuseaction becomes projectsThis---
>
> <cfswitch expression="#ListFirst(attributes.fuseaction,'.')#">
> <cfcase value="projectsThis" delimiters=",">
> <cfinclude template="dsp_projects.cfm">
> </cfcase>
> </cfswitch>
> And so on down the tree.....
>
> So maybe a tag that you put in all of the top level fuseactions,
> and if the
> fuseaction isn't contained in that list it drops the first thing in the
> fuseaction list. Then this tag could be located on app_locals.cfm
> of any sub
> application.
>
>
> Sean Renet
>
>
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