Hey, Your solution will be one foundation template with some pre-executed script to display custom elements. An instance of the foundation page will be created for each department, or for each subsite.
1. Create one re-usable foundation page. Add placeholder called stf_Department (or opt_Department) 2. Create instance of the foundation page for each department. Assign stf_Department value for each instance 3. Add pre-executed script around each custom block. Example <% if <%stf_Department%> = "Department One" Then %> //display navigation list and navigation image for About Us section <%img_DepartmentOne%> <%lst_DepartmentOne%> ... <%End if %> Most likely it will be a case statement based on all possible values of stf_Department Note that you can also use transfer element to pass standard field from a page in a target container to a foundation page. Hope it helps, Irina CGI RedDot Team On Oct 22, 11:49 am, Dave R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > I'm with Georgia State University. We've been using RedDot CMS now > since about 2005 and I just found out about this group. I apologize, > but this is going to be a long first post with a couple of questions > introduced throughout. > > We're about to embark on our first major redesign since then and with > 7.5 we will want to make the most out of the navigation manager and > page definitions. One of the main problems we're having at the moment > is how do we build a single foundation that works for every thing. Let > me give you a few examples: > > Our Current Homepage:http://www.gsu.edu/ > The main nav is currently the top nav bar. The left nav is more user/ > informational specific. Everything there should have a main home under > the top nav. With the redesign, we'll make this arrangement more > clear. > > A Current Subsite:http://www.gsu.edu/es/ > A major point of concern is getting the graphic banner for the > department (right under the horizontal nav) worked into the foundation > without creating a new foundation. Another issue is ensuring that only > the navigation for that subsite shows in the left. All subsites right > now run through the Offices & Services link in the top navbar and > that's reflected in the breadcrumbing. I'm thinking this is easy if we > have our logic right for the navigation manager. > > Another thing to know is that everything right now is of course build > using target containers. > > So, the question at this point really is: How do we build a foundation > that will have the potential to display custom elements without having > to create a new foundation? What's the best practice here? > > The next thing is what we are looking at in the future. We recently > did have to create a new template for our Undergraduate Admissions > group. They didn't have the time to wait for the full redesign and we > wanted to test some things out. The version of the site that is live > has been built using RD 6.5 not 7.5 and is target container based. We > have several elements that are only used on certain pages such as a > left navbar and a flash banner. > > So, the question here again is: How do we build a foundation that will > have the potential to display custom elements without having to create > a new foundation? > > This design is very close to what we hope will go live, but the > marketing/design group hasn't actually designed it yet. This is solely > based on the wireframe we think will resolve our biggest problems. > > Here's the site: > Main Home:http://www.gsu.edu/admissions/ > Audience Home:http://www.gsu.edu/admissions/highschoolindex.html > Basic Page:http://www.gsu.edu/admissions/28285.html > > I'm not so much worried about inserting a photo at the top of the > page. That can be handled through various content classes within the > content area. It's the fact that some pages will not require a left > navigation bar or flash banner which will always be above the top > navigation. Then there's that whole navigation problem itself. > > How would you all handle these issues? We have well over 30 subsites > that will need to be rebuild/redesigned with the new template so this > is very important. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/RedDot-CMS-Users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
