Nic, We had discussions on this some time ago. I think this link might describe how to use an attribute in another JSP used by that tiles definition: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg61368.html
I remember thinking it was odd but I recall trying it and making it work because I posted something similar in a (much) later thread, essentially restating that message. Regards, David -----Original Message----- From: Nic Waight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 9:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Using Tile xml definition as an ActionForward The Reason my page was displaying as black was because of an error in my header.jsp when it used the tiles:getAsString tag to ask for the title attribute. The example I was following seemed to imply that the title attribute in the definition would be available to all my tiles. This was not the case. Instead I had to do the following in my layout jsp <%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8"%> <%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-tiles" prefix="tiles" %> <%-- Added this bit --%> <tiles:insert attribute="header"> <%-- this attribute is accessible from header.jsp --%> <tiles:put name="title" beanName="title" beanScope="tile" /> </tiles:insert> <%-- <tiles:get name="header" /> --%> <tiles:get name="body"/> <tiles:get name="footer"/> I would like to know if this is definitely the way I should be doing this or does it look like I am working round some other problem? >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/18/04 02:18p.m. >>> One cause of the blank page is if the attribute named in yout <tiles:insert> (or <tiles:get> I guess) is/are named incorectly. Tiles seems quite happy and carries on, just outputting nothing if these aren't found. Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nic Waight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 1:11 AM Subject: Re: Using Tile xml definition as an ActionForward Spot on Niall, My tiles-defs.xml was looking for /tiles/layout/Base.jsp but the directory was layouts. Now I am getting a blank page but I am making progress now. I know iyt must be something small. Thanks for your help Nic. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/18/04 01:58p.m. >>> Actually your right, wasn't a clever suggestion - I hadn't used the <tiles:get>, but looking at the source code - its identical to <tiles:insert> and was put there so tiles was compatible with the original struts template tags. I didn't realize you were getting a 404 - I thought from your message you were just getting a blank page in your browser. What is it telling you is missing in the 404 - is it the layout "/tiles/layout/Base.jsp"? If so, I know its obvious - but it is named correctly and deployed to the right place? I'm not familar with "Struts in Action" but there is a tiles-documentation.war shipped with strust which you can drop into your webapps folder. Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nic Waight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 11:29 PM Subject: Re: Using Tile xml definition as an ActionForward I gave that a go but with the same result the browser displays a 404 not found error. Also I have been following the example in the Struts in Action book which says to use the tiles:get tags in the layout. Nic. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/18/04 12:14p.m. >>> Try changing your layout ("/tiles/layout/Base.jsp") to <%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-tiles" prefix="tiles" %> <tiles:getAsString name="title"/> <tiles:insert attribute="header"/> <tiles:insert attribute="body"/> <tiles:insert attribute="footer"/> Niall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nic Waight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 9:57 PM Subject: Using Tile xml definition as an ActionForward I am new to using tiles and I am having a problem getting my definition defined in my tiles-defs.xml file to be displayed. I have used the debugger to verify that the definition is being loaded when I access the action but the page is not displaying. I have checked the log and I am not getting any errors. I am using Struts 1.1 on Weblogic Server 8.1 my tiles-defs.xml looks like this <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 1.1//EN" "http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/tiles-config_1_1.dtd";> <tiles-definitions> <definition name=".css.main" path="/tiles/layout/Base.jsp"> <put name="title" value="Privacy Office" /> <put name="header" value="/tiles/header.jsp" /> <put name="body" value="/tiles/main.jsp" /> <put name="footer" value="/tiles/footer.jsp" /> </definition> </tiles-definitions> my layout jsp is <%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-tiles" prefix="tiles" %> <tiles:useAttribute name="title"/> <tiles:get page="header"/> <tiles:get page="body"/> <tiles:get page="footer"/> my action in my struts-config.xml looks like <action path="/showMain" type="nz.govt.justice.css.ShowMainAction" name="userData" scope="request" unknown="false" validate="false"> <forward name="success" path=".css.main" redirect="false"/> </action> and my plugin config looks like <plug-in className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin"> <set-property property="definitions-config" value="/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml"/> <set-property property="definitions-debug" value="2"/> <set-property property="definitions-parser-details" value="0"/> <set-property property="definitions-parser-validate" value="true"/> </plug-in> Any help would be appreciated. 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