On Aug 4, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Maria Teresa wrote:
I am very new to Radiant, and the community, so please forgive me if
I'm asking a silly question, or for too much. (I did try looking for
this topic in the archives, but couldn't come up with the right
search phrases, I'm afraid.)
I'd like to make a standardized layout for what essentially are
templated profile pages. The main body of the profile would be
pretty flexible, in terms of content (About, Background, Other
Info), but I want to set up a sidebar that is more standardized. In
this space, the content should be consistent from page to page, with
some of the data points chosen from a set of options (see my example
below).
What would be the best way to accomplish this? I was thinking of
using a combination of the WYSIWYM extension and specified defaults
of page parts to help an administrator add new profile pages to a
site, but I'd like to be able to set up something easy for the side
bar without having to add a new page part (tab) for each of bit of
data. Is there a way to include editable default text to page parts,
which would at least provide sample data to be replaced? Is there
some kind of form that can be created in the Page admin to generate
a page? If I were to make each of those pieces snippets, the snippet
pieces would still need to be specified within the page context, and
I would again need to have some kind of prepopulated content within
the page parts to ensure each data point was included.
I don't have anything to show just now, as I'm simply trying to work
out these details, but please let me know if there's any other
information I can provide to better illustrate my questions. Thanks!
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Example: If this were a template for company executives the content
might look like this:
__Personnel Page__
- "About": Main content, free-form descriptive text.
- Personal picture
- Sidebar:
- Company Location (specific options)
- Department (specific options)
- Alma Mater (one line of free text)
- Years Employed (number)
Personally, I think what you ought to do is create an extension which
allows the user to edit/select their details from their preferences.
Then, make some tags for yourself to conditionally output the data in
the layout.
Doing it that way would give you control over the data. When it's in
snippets or page parts, its all free-form.
Thanks so much,
Teresa
Jim Gay
http://www.saturnflyer.com
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