Thanks Randy - in the end, I actually modified the top.vm page, and it worked a treat - just had to work my way through it - always on the look-out for easy answers though!!
-----Original Message----- From: Randy Watler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 6 October 2005 1:11 AM To: Jetspeed Users List Subject: Re: Left hand menus and PSML tabs - explanatory material?? James, Probably the best thing to do is to keep asking specific questions. Granted, the docs we have are a bit thin in spots... some things that users want to do are quite unique. As far as your question below goes, probably the easiest thing to do here is to create a new link with a site relative url in it... something like: <link> <title>Home</title> <url>/jetspeed/portal</url> </link> Another option would be to modify the decorator to add an explict home navigational element. It would look somethign like this: <a href="$jetspeed.getAbsoluteUrl('/')" title="Home">Home</a> Yes, both are kind of obscure. With M4 declarative menus, this would be much more straight forward. M4 also supports breadcrumb navigation with the built in menu declarations. Randy James Dixon wrote: >Thanks Randy - yes using M3 at the moment. Had a look at the things you >mentioned, but am still a bit in the dark. > >Anyway, on a specific issue: > >I have my root folder, which contains a folder call 'Folder 1'. I >click on the link in the left hand menu and go to this folder. When in >Folder 1, I want to be able to click on a link (preferably under >Folders and Pages) to get back to the root folder. Is there any way to >do this? The structure is as follows > >rootFolder > - link1.lnk > - link2.lnk > - default-page.psml > - page2.psml > - Folder1 > -folder.metadata > -page3.psml > >I thought I might be able to make another folder (called Home portlet), >and this works, but it only takes us deeper into the tree - I want to >be able to link to go back to the root folder. > >Any ideas? > >James > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Randy Watler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, 4 October 2005 3:40 PM >To: Jetspeed Users List >Subject: Re: Left hand menus and PSML tabs - explanatory material?? > >James, > >I am assuming that you are working with the M3 binary release. Answers >to some of these questions have changed for M4. > >James Dixon wrote: > > > >>Hi All >> >>I was wondering if anyone had come across any explanatory material >>relating to the WEB-INF/pages folder - in particular how it all works?? >>By trial and error, I have cobbled together a workable menu, and got >>the tabs working, but there are some intricacies that I am not following. >> >> >> >There is some documentation on the web site for a few of the common >PSML topics. >Of course, the archives of this list can be quite informative. Finally, >there are design documents in the SVN tree. The Profiler and >PageManager docs are most useful. For PSML syntax, see the Castor XML >mapping xml file in the PageManager component source tree... it is the >closest thing to an XML schema we have at the moment, (make sure you >get the M3 version). For M4, see the PortalSite component docs... they >cover the new declarative menus. > > > >>Firstly, I have cleared all the links from folders, and have put my >>set of links in my root folder. This set of links is about 8 links - >>but I can't get Jetspeed to display more than 5. Have I missed >>configuring something somewhere? >> >> >> >There should be no limit, so something else is wrong. Check to make >sure the links are unique and the PSML syntax is valid. Make sure you >are not adding links that security constraints are suppressing. > > > >>Secondly, is there any way I can influence the order of the tabs above >>the portlets (that relate to the PSML files)? I have worked out how >>to identify those tabs I want, but I can't work out how to order them, >>or to set the default tab. >> >> >> >See document-order tags in the folder.metadata PSML tags. > > > >>Thirdly, there are .ds files, which I imagine are 'Document Set' files. >>What are these? Is there any documentation on them? >> >> >> >You are correct: document set. These are documented in the >Profiler/PageManager design docs available in SVN. Note that these have >been deprecated in M4 in favor of the declarative menu support. > > > >>Grateful for any advice, or links to relevant material - even where >>this stuff is handled in the source code would be a start! >> >> >> >If you like to read source, check out the page-manager and profiler >components in M3. For M4, also see the portal-site component. > >HTH, > >Randy > > > >>Cheers >> >>James >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >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] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
