Cookie trails based on site layout model

Seth Hodgson Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:01:50 -0700

Two questions:

1. Is there a best practice for generating cookie trails using the site layout model?

I have implemented a cookie trail (home > section1 > section1.1 > etc.) using the site model as follows.

<cfa_siteElementGet
      dataSource="#request.cfa.datasource.dsn#"
      elementID="#currentSectionID#"
      r_stElement="stSection"
    >

    
    <cfscript>
      bGetParent = 1;
      tempParentID = stSection.parentCompositionID;
      aParentHistory = ArrayNew(1);

</cfscript>
    <cfloop condition="bGetParent">
      
      <cfa_siteElementGet
        dataSource="#request.cfa.datasource.dsn#"
        elementID="#tempParentID#"
        r_stElement="currentParent"
      >
      
      <cfset bGetParent = 0>
      <cfif currentParent.compositionType eq "Section">
        <cfscript>
          ArrayAppend( aParentHistory, currentParent );
          tempParentID = currentParent.parentCompositionID;
          bGetParent = 1;
        </cfscript>
      </cfif>
    </cfloop>

Once the array of parent elements has been built it can be looped over for a variety of location or cookie trail displays. I started off by attempting to use cfa_siteElementGetParents, which returned a collection of unsorted parent elements that didn't appear to be terribly useful but I'm curious if there are more elegant approaches to the cookie trail problem floating around.

2. Programmatically creating sections.

Is it possible to generate site sections programmatically? I can't find anything in the Spectra API for this, but the Webtop performs this action. If anyone has experience with programatically creating sections in the site layout model, please let me know how you went about accomplishing this.

Cheers,

Seth

seth hodgson
[engineering specialist]
impossible, inc.

Cookie trails based on site layout model

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