Structuring a portal with two seperate panes

[Kim Thrys�e]

First let me thank you all for an awesome piece of work. I hope to contribute myself as I get on my way in my own project, which is to develop a portal for a University Library Portal. I have a fairly good understanding of the turbine/jetspeed architecture and its use. Nonetheless am I in trouble when it comes to my portals overall structuring, because it differ from the standard setup. I hope that my question makes sense and sounds familiar to others new to Jetspeed.

Let me briefly sketch the required portal layout:

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| A |
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| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| B | C | D |
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
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| E |
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A = Top navigation with a few fixed links to articles to be shown in "C" / external sites
B, D = Portlet pane to be shown on most pages (ex. Home, Login, Error...)
C = Area where either article/text content is shown or special pages such as Login
E = Fixed bottom navigation

As B and D (almost) always must be shown (Few exceptions such as customizing is to be done in the full screen). I have to find a way to include two areas with portlets on templates such as Login.jsp.
I still wish to use the jetspeed customization feature to customize the two areas.

I have been thinking about a this paths to take:

*Option 1* - Screen contains two Jetspeed panes (B/D) and handles article content/form displaying (C)

I let the screens contain two panes plus have the responsibility of showing article content in area C based on some included JSP:
<table>
<tr>
<td><jetspeed:pane name="left" /></td>
<td><jsp:include ... ></td>
<td><jetspeed:pane name="right" /></td>
</tr>
</table>

- Is it possible to have two panes on a screen as done in this example?
- If so, is it necessary to manually add a "left" and "right" portlet set to the user PSML files.

Perhaps I could even use a third pane to hold article-showing portlets.

- Does anyone have experience with portlets to show organized and hierarchically organized content as opposed to lists of news items. Perhaps based on cocoon requests or a CMS ?


Any bits of advice and pointers are more than welcome.

thanks

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Kim Thrys�e
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