Kevin, I'm pretty sure that once you have the attribute inheritance set up, it won't be possible to override the attribute at a lower level. However, if I get you right, you could simply define a child definition for page2 which extends .standardPage. In short, it shouldn't matter at what level you override an attribute.
Tai -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Cramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 9:48 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Nesting tile definitions Thank you. I have this working. The side effect is that it would require me to define all the attributes at the highest level. What if I would like to define the attributes at a lower level and then override it when it changes for a certain page? In my example I would like to define "right" at the .standardPage.header or .standardPage.header.bar level and override it for page2. I tried using <logic:present name="right"/> tags around the tiles:put you specified below but that didn't help. It seems that when you use the tiles:put it overrides that attribute in the subtiles. If the attribute is not defined at the highest level then you don't get the setting at lower levels. Thanks, Kevin On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 06:42:10PM -0500, Tai Nguyen wrote: > Kevin, > > To make an attribute available to a nested tile you need to pass it along > when you call the tile. For example: > > <tiles:insert attribute="bar"> > <tiles:put name="right" beanName="right" beanScope="tile" /> > <tiles:put name="left" beanName="left" beanScope="tile" /> > </tiles:insert> > > Where beanName is the name of the attribute you want to pass and name is > what you want to pass it as and scope is tile context. In your case, you > would also need to add a similar declaration in your .standardPage.header > tile since you need to pass it along twice. Once you've done all that, you > would actually specify the tiles attribute values in the parent definition. > This can be very helpful in keeping all the attributes for a given "view" in > one definition instead of scattered all over your tiles-def.xml. > > Tai > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Cramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 6:19 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Nesting tile definitions > > > > I got it working. It was a problem with something else. I didn't > catch it. It can be hard to find problems with the lack of debug > messages that come back from the server. > > My next question was how do I use attributes from supertiles? I want > to take a page and split it into tiles, one of which is the header. I > also wanted to further divide the header into subtiles. In particular > there is a part of a subtile in the header tile which can vary > depending on which page you are on. I'm wondering what is the easiest > way to deal with it. > > I'm doing all of this using the XML Tile definitions. I put an > example below with just the relevant parts. If I want page1 to use > one value for the "right" and page2 to use another value for "right" > how do I do that? "right" is defined 2 levels down from the standard > page tile. It would be nice to override it at the highest level. > Perhaps I am doing things wrong. It seems wrong to define multiple > intermediate tiles for the different combinations. > > <tiles-definitions> > <definition name=".standardPage" > path="/WEB-INF/common/layouts/standardLayout.jsp"> > <put name="title" value="NO TITLE DEFINED" /> > <put name="header" value=".standardPage.header" /> > <put name="footer" value="/WEB-INF/common/footer.jsp" /> > <put name="content" value="NO CONTENT DEFINED" /> > </definition> > > <definition name=".standardPage.header" > path="/WEB-INF/common/header.jsp"> > <put name="bar" value=".standardPage.header.bar"/> > </definition> > > <definition name=".standardPage.header.bar" > path="/WEB-INF/common/bar.jsp"> > <put name="right" value="/WEB-INF/common/qsearch.jsp"/> > <put name="left" value="/WEB-INF/common/comp1.jsp"/> > </definition> > > <definition name=".page1" > extends=".standardPage"> > <put name="title" value="Page 1"/> > <put name="content" value="/WEB-INF/pages/page1.jsp"/> > </definition> > > <definition name=".page2" > extends=".standardPage"> > <put name="title" value="Page 2"/> > <put name="content" value="/WEB-INF/pages/page2.jsp"/> > </definition> > > </tiles-definitions> > > > Kevin > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 05:07:04PM -0500, Tai Nguyen wrote: > > Kevin, > > > > First if all, it is possible to use attributes from supertiles, but that's > > another issue. The definitions you have posted look fine, so I would > guess > > that it's a problem with your header.jsp file. Can you post that so we > can > > look at it, as well as the full error message you are getting? > > > > Thanks, > > Tai > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kevin Cramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 4:43 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Nesting tile definitions > > > > > > > > I am trying to have a tile definition include another definition but > > it doesn't seem to be working. Can I do this and if so then how do I > > do it? > > > > Here is an example of what I am trying to do. I would like the header > > of a standard page to be another tile so I can further divide it into > > pieces. However, when I try to create a definition that extends the > > .standardPage I get an error at the top of the page. It just says > > that there has been a ServletException in > > /WEB-INF/common/layouts/header.jsp. I understand that a tile cannot > > use attributes from subtiles or supertiles and I don't think that is > > the problem. > > > > <tiles-definitions> > > <definition name=".standardPage" > > path="/WEB-INF/common/layouts/standardLayout.jsp"> > > <put name="title" value="NO TITLE DEFINED" /> > > <put name="std_jscript" value="/WEB-INF/common/std-jscript.jsp" /> > > <put name="header" value=".standardPage.header" /> > > <put name="footer" value="/WEB-INF/common/footer.jsp" /> > > <put name="content" value="NO CONTENT DEFINED" /> > > </definition> > > > > <definition name=".standardPage.header" > > path="/WEB-INF/common/layouts/header.jsp"> > > <put name="tagline.left" value="/WEB-INF/common/qsearch.jsp"/> > > <put name="tagline.right" value="/WEB-INF/common/instBanner.jsp"/> > > </definition> > > </tiles-definitions> > > > > Thanks, > > Kevin > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
