Mike, MenuViewHelper is an ActionBean (sorry if the name is a little deceiving). <s:url constructs a URL to the ActionBean and the jsp:include includes the ActionBean which essentially processes the default handler on the ActionBean and forwards to a a JSP.
Instead of building a menu in the JSP do whatever you like with your tabs and authorization. It really doesn't matter whether its a menu or tabs its the idea that is key i.e. what I gave you was the key part which is how to inline / embed the output of the view of an ActionBean inside a JSP. Simply place the block I gave you below within a layout-component tag in a nested layout and render and voila you are golden. What do you feel is still missing? --Nikolaos dimension123 dimension123 wrote: > Nice. I had actually ordered that book this morning before even > posting my question. I was hoping for a solution before the book gets > here however. > In my case i'm not really trying to build a menu, but rather tabs. To > do that, i feel i need a way to be able to reference an actionbean > from the layout component that is always visible and when pages are > loaded rather than submitted. That way i can either call a method on > the actionbean to determine if the current user is entitled or not to > view certain areas of the page. > Not quite sure yet how to do it. > > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Nikolaos Giannopoulos > <nikol...@brightminds.org <mailto:nikol...@brightminds.org>> wrote: > > Mike, > > What you are looking for and more is covered in Freddy Daoud's book on > Stripes. > > The mechanism you are looking for is as follows: > > <s:url var="url" > beanclass="org.test.ui.web.action.view.support.MenuViewHelper" > prependContext="false"> > <s:param name="currentSection" > value="${currentSection}" /> > </s:url> > <jsp:include page="${url}" /> > > There is a lot happening there so have fun... and get the book (it > goes > into more detail on how the sections can be represented using > enums and > localization and more)... its well worth it... . > > --Nikolaos > > > > dimension123 dimension123 wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am using stripes layout to create a 'master page' of sorts. > One of > > the layout component (the 'header' layout) is responsible for > rending > > the horizontal tab menu on the page. Since this is the header, it > > appears for all pages of course. I need the tabs that are displayed > > to be dynamic based on user roles. For instance, If a user is > Guest > > vs a Registered User, the tabs will be different. If a user is an > > "Administrator", an Admin tab will show. etc. > > > > My base actionbean has a method that that delegates to a > > SecurityService that can determine which roles a user has. The > issue > > i'm having is how to do this the 'right' way. Right now, when you > > first land on a page, it does not appear as though there is a way to > > invoke an actionbean method. This seems to happen only if you > submit > > the page or if you use a url that is bound to the actionbean (i.e. > > /MyActionBean.action). It seems as though the ActionBean does not > > really come into scope until that happens. > > > > Is there away to make an actionbean come into scope when a page is > > first loaded? > > Is there away to bind an actionbean to a stripes layout > component such > > that, in the case described above, that action bean will always be > > available to the web application (given that the header is always > > displayed)? > > If i can do that, i figure i would have what i need to solve the > problem. > > > > Are there other ways anyone can recommend to solve this problem? > > > > thanks, > > Mike > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video > Whitepaper > > David G. 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