Re: Management of Content Snippets on a non-Ecommerce Page

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:51:14 -0700

Thanks for the quick response - I'll dig more deeply here and try that decorator-section pre-body and let you know how it goes. 

Cheers,
Tim

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Adrian Crum wrote:
Since I can't see what you're trying to implement, I can't offer many details. I'm also at a disadvantage because we don't use the eCommerce application here. The changes I proposed were to enhance the back office web UI.
Basically, the idea was to provide "hooks" in the GlobalDecorator so that components could (optionally) insert content in the web page.
If I'm understanding you correctly, you could add a pre-body section to the GlobalDecorator and your component's MainDecorator. Specific screen or form widgets could then call the pre-body section of the MainDecorator. 

Your MainDecorator would then have

<decorator-section-include name="pre-body"/>

And your About screen would then have

<decorator-section name="pre-body">

instead of

<decorator-section name="body">
The pre-template section I proposed in Jira 174 was intended to do things like put dynamic content in the page title. 


Tim Ruppert wrote:
Adrian, I've been studying those patch files and like the pre-template way of staging my data. I guess my next questions for you would be where do you define what happens in the pre-processor? Are the multiple content snippets that make up a single page in any way associated? What do you add to the About Screen to add those content snippets - or is it all handled by the pre-template processing?
Much of this content is going to populate something in the leftbar. Optimally, I would love for the sidedeepcategory to only show up on the category and detail pages - but have the ability to configure the content in that bar on standard content-based pages. Thanks for any further clarification that you guys can offer. 

--Tim

Here is my very simple definition for the About page:

   <screen name="About">
       <section>
           <actions>
               <set field="leftbarScreenName" value="leftbar"/>
               <set field="MainColumnStyle" value="center"/>
               <set field="title-property" value="About"/>
           </actions>
           <widgets>
<decorator-screen name="main-decorator" location="${parameters.mainDecoratorLocation}"> 
                   <decorator-section name="body">
<sub-content content-id="10001" assoc-name="About" /> 
                   </decorator-section>
               </decorator-screen>
           </widgets>
         </section>
   </screen>     and here is the main-decorator:

   <screen name="main-decorator">
       <section>
           <actions>
<!-- base/top/specific map first, then more common map added for shared labels --> <property-map resource="EcommerceUiLabels" map-name="uiLabelMap" global="true"/> <property-map resource="ContentUiLabels" map-name="uiLabelMap" global="true"/> <property-map resource="CommonUiLabels" map-name="uiLabelMap" global="true"/> <property-map resource="ProductUiLabels" map-name="uiLabelMap" global="true"/> <property-map resource="AccountingUiLabels" map-name="uiLabelMap" global="true"/> <property-map resource="PartyUiLabels" map-name="uiLabelMap" global="true"/> <property-map resource="OrderUiLabels" map-name="uiLabelMap" global="true"/>
<set field="MainColumnStyle" value="nocolumns" global="true"/> <set field="layoutSettings.extraHead" value="&lt;link rel=&quot;stylesheet&quot; href=&quot;/content/images/contentForum.css&quot; type=&quot;text/css&quot;/&gt;" global="true"/> <script location="component://ecommerce/widget/EcommerceSetup.bsh"/> 
           </actions>
           <widgets>
               <!-- render header -->
<platform-specific><html><html-template location="component://app/webapp/app/includes/header.ftl"/></html></platform-specific> 

               <container id="ecom-mainarea">
<!-- by default will render left-bar only if left/rightbarScreenName value not empty --> <include-screen name="${leftbarScreenName}" location="${leftbarScreenLocation}"/> 

                   <container style="${MainColumnStyle}">
                       <!-- render messages -->
<platform-specific><html><html-template location="component://common/webcommon/includes/messages.ftl"/></html></platform-specific> 
                       <decorator-section-include name="body"/>
                   </container>

                   <container style="endcolumns"/>
               </container>

               <!-- render footer -->
<platform-specific><html><html-template location="component://app/webapp/app/includes/footer.ftl"/></html></platform-specific> 
           </widgets>
       </section>
   </screen>

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Tim Ruppert
HotWax Media
http://www.hotwaxmedia.com

o:801.649.6594
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Adrian Crum wrote:
I can't get to the old Jira right now to give you more specific information. When you check on it, look for Jacopo's comments (and my response) about additional sections in CommonScreens.xml called Pre-Template and Post-Template.
We did that here so we could put dynamic content in the title. We added other sections to the GlobalDecorator so that content could be inserted in various places during page construction. Components could then insert their own actions, ftls, etc in those added sections. 

For an outdated example, see the CommonScreens.xml file in Jira 174.

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