Hi! <<How difficult is it to create a dynamic PLP - that is, where <<CF/Spectra-illiterate-users can choose the number of steps they need? Spectra offers you a whole "PLP-Framework" and if you spend some time understanding the way it works, the possibilities are unlimited (more or less ;-) The best way to start is of course playing with the "PLP-management console" inside WebTop and studying the existing examples. I guess you've also already seen the article about PLPs on the Allaire site (http://www.allaire.com/handlers/index.cfm?id=16298&Method=Full), where I tried to explain, why we wanted to extent the normal usage (i.e. fixed number of PLP-steps with one PLP-step-handler template per step) of PLPs by using "virtual" PLP-steps that delegate the processing to (COAPI-)handlers of our content object types. Our goal was to use one central publishing-PLP for editing all our different content objects (e.g. NEWS, DOCUMENTS, CONTACTS, etc.). So this had to be a "dynamic" PLP in the sense that the number of steps and what is happening inside the steps varies, but everything is "fixed" during design time, because it's part of our code (hopefully not written by "CF/Spectra-illiterate-users" ;-) what happens for NEWS, what happens for DOCUMENTS, etc. If I got your question right, you would even like to go one step further ("... where CF/Spectra-illiterate-users can choose the number of steps they need ..."), i.e. keeping everything dynamic enough that things can be influenced during run-time of your application. I'm not sure what exactly you're trying to get in the end, so it's hard to tell how difficult it will be ;-) But generally the PLP-Framework is flexible enough for custom add-ons and especially the option to explicitly give the "nextstep" to be called inside your PLP-Handler-Code (-> completly independend from the original PLP-design !!!) might help you. There are some code-examples within the article, where you can see how we've established the level of dynamic we needed by using the "nextstep"-variable programmatically! Regards, Peter Trumpp system architect conceptware ag -----Originalnachricht----- Von: Lum, Karling An: Spectra-Talk Gesendet: 22.03.2001 23:12 Betreff: Dynamic PLPs - Peter Trumpp Hi Peter, How difficult is it to create a dynamic PLP - that is, where CF/Spectra-illiterate-users can choose the number of steps they need? Thank you! Karli. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/spectra_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
