Ok well at least I know now that it doesn't work.

thanks,

Mike

On Nov 14, 10:50 pm, "Dan (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> As it turns out, the gadgets specification is ambiguous when it comes
> to this behavior, so it may or may not work depending on the
> container. In iGoogle production, it will not work. In iGoogle sandbox
> and orkut, it will work. And, to further complicate matters, the
> method of concatenation supported by iGoogle and orkut is
> incompatible, in some instances when using unreleased features such as
> proxied content. Therefore, it's likely that the implementation will
> change, and it might not work anywhere.
>
> I would recommend using a single definition of each view for
> guaranteed behavior.
>
> Best,
> Dan
>
> On Nov 14, 1:22 pm, "Dan (Google Employee)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Mike,
>
> > I believe the documentation is incorrect, but I will verify.
>
> > Best,
> > Dan
>
> > On Nov 13, 11:32 am, Michael Jervis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Dan,
>
> > > > You can combine multiple views into a single content section, but each
> > > > view should appear a maximum of one time per gadget. I believe the
> > > > default behavior when multiple instances of a view are discovered is
> > > > to use the first occurrence.
>
> > > That conflicts with the linked 
> > > documentation:http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/ui.html#multi_content
>
> > > Which has an example a couple of screens down from that anchor in the
> > > "complete example":
>
> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> > > <Module>
> > >   <ModulePrefs title="Multiple Content Sections (version 5)">
> > >     <Require feature="opensocial-0.8" />
> > >   </ModulePrefs>
> > >   <Content type="html" view="profile">
> > >   <![CDATA[
> > >     <h1>Profile</h1>
> > >   ]]>
> > >   </Content>
> > >   <Content type="html" view="canvas">
> > >   <![CDATA[
> > >     <h1>Canvas</h1>
> > >   ]]>
> > >   </Content>
> > >   <Content type="html" view="canvas,profile">
> > >   <![CDATA[
> > >     <h2>This shows up in canvas and profile views</h2>
> > >   ]]>
> > >   </Content>
> > >   <Content type="html">
> > >   <![CDATA[
> > >     <h1>Default</h1>
> > >     <h2>The content in this section only shows up if no other content
> > > sections are applicable</h2>
> > >   ]]>
> > >   </Content>
> > > </Module>
>
> > > It then states that in canvas view you can expect to see:
>
> > > <h1>Canvas</h1>
> > > <h2>This shows up in canvas and profile views</h2>
>
> > > I know the sample is "profile" and "canvas" and I'm trying to do
> > > "home" and "canvas", but I would have thought the same process
> > > applies.
>
> > > Is the documentation wrong then? Or have I missed something?
>
> > > Mike
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