We'll soon be rolling out a live jetspeed site as a corporate intranet.
Before we do that we're trying to make the user experience as complete
as possible. One issue we've encourtered is a quirk with pane
customization. Suppose a user's home page has a tabcontroller on it
with three panes. If the user were to customize that page and
unwittingly select a layout other than tab or menu, he or she will lose
those panes. Granted, this can be 'trained around,' but there must be a
more elegant way to handle this.
In the customizer.portletset.vm template, the 'Add Portlet' and 'Add
Pane' buttons are conditionally enabled based upon the type of
controller that's active. Using this same conditional value, it should
be possible to intelligently populate the 'Layout' dropdown box. If the
pane has other panes on it, only TabController and MenuController should
be listed. If the pane has portlets on it, these two should NOT appear
and all the others should. In the template,
customizer-portletset-layout.vm, there is a #foreach statement that
populates the dropdown box. Code such as the following would, in
theory, behave the way I want (note the first #if statement):
#foreach ($controller in $controllers)
#if ( ($controller.hasPanes="true" && #allowpane) ||
($controller.hasPortlets="true" && $allowportlet) )
<option value="$controller.Name"
#if ($controller.Name == $currentController) SELECTED #end>
#if ($controller.Title)
$controller.Title
#else
$controller.Name
#end
#end
#end
The problem is that i need these 'hasPanes' and 'hasPortlets' properties
on the $controller object. Is there a property/function that already
supplies these values? If not, how could i add it? I think this is an
important feature that is currently missing.
Thanks!
Seth Weiner
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