I noticed there was no reply to this, so I'll tell you one approach I used recently.
I created an administration page with containers in it that relate to each section of the site. That is each section has an associated container on this page. The web master can put in navigation links into these containers with the standard container editor. When navigating the site, the global navigation custom tag determines which section the requested page is in, finds the appropriate admin container and invokes that container with a display method. I have used a few techniques to make the reference to these containers fast and reliable which I wont go into here. It is working well and I think I will adopt this same approach from now on. Kind regards, Dave Crosby. -----Original Message----- From: Toby Tremayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 4 October 2001 8:47 p.m. To: Spectra-Talk Subject: Global nav in spectra apps I'm trying to get a few opinions before I get stuck in to the architecture of a new application. What I want to know, is how do people normally handle global navigation / headers etc in a spectra application? IE code re-use, incoporation of other apps etc etc. In a coldfusion app I'd use the fusebox methodology which handles it all for me, and I only ever have to mess with the code for headers/left nav etc in one file. Does anyone have techniques for similar functionality within spectra? Toby ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Life is poetry, write it in your own words ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Toby Tremayne Architect / Developer Code Poet and Zen Master of the Heavy Sleep MercuryRed Lvl 9, 123 Queen st Melbourne VIC 3000 p: +61 3 9605 5035 m: +61 416 048 090 ICQ: 13107913 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DISCLAIMER - All errors and omissions excepted. This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error, please notify Mercury Red immediately ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
