I got some very good ideas from this original question before it wandered off into a discussion of tuning. I would really like to hear from someone who has an example of a master/detail processing in Velocity before I strike off into the unknown based on JSP examples that I received. They where very helpful in understanding the principle.
Thanks Ron -----Original Message----- From: Ron Wheeler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 12:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: David Dyer Subject: master detail records displayed in a portlet We are fairly new to Jetspeed and have made pretty good progress dispite the documentation. We are wondering how to create the following fairly common web page structure. We have three identical problems. List of case studies, list of white papers, list of training courses. In each case, we want to present the user with the list and when they click on one of them, show them the details of that item. The information is in one or more XML files. (list of items in one XML that links to the many individual XML files containing the details of te item.) The first problem is that we do not see how we can use separate portlets since we only want either the list or one of the items on the screen at once and we do not the menu to change while the user navigates within the topic. If we use a single portlet, then we need to be able to respond to selection of one item (a Case Study for example) by clearing the list and displaying the selected document (the Case Study). We have the xsl stylesheets to display the initial list and the details of the idividual item. 1) Are we on the right track and understanding the problem in a reasonable way? 2) Which portlet type would be the best way to handle this? 3) Does anyone have a model that we could see/use for this type of application? 4) Should we be looking at Velocity/DVSL rather than XSLT if we are going to work with Jetspeed? Thanks for the help. Ron --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
