Hi Colin,
You could use a global pull tool and a FieldMethodizer to accomplish this,
like the way they do it in Scarab.
Have a look at:
org.tigris.scarab.util.ScarabConstants
org.tigris.scarab.tools.ScarabGlobalTool
Because there is a getConstant() method in the global pull tool, you can then
access these constants from any template like so:
$globaltool.Constant.CONSTANT_NAME
Hope that helps,
-- Rodney
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:23, you wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Thx for the reply. We've already built a pull tool for working with Dates.
> One of the methods we have allows us to pass a Date and a format for
> display purposes. In our application we need to show the date in at least 3
> different but similiar formats. In order to help me I thought it would be
> easy to set something like
>
> #set $DateOne = "dd/MM/yy"
> #set $DateTwo = "dd-MM-yyyy"
> #set $DateThree = "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm"
>
> as globals and passing the String to the Pull tool such as
>
> PullTool(ActualDate, $DateOne)
>
> which should show something like the following on the screen
>
> 18/11/68
>
> /colin
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Worms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Turbine Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 9:14 PM
> Subject: Re: Velocity template
>
> > What you need is to create a tool. It is pretty easy and work very well.
> > Here is an example:
> >
> > public class DateTool implements ApplicationTool
> > {
> > private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog( Date.class );
> >
> > private String date = null;
> >
> > /**
> > * Initialize the UIManager object.
> > *
> > * @param data This is null, RunData or User depending upon
> > specified tool scope.
> > */
> > public void init(Object data)
> > {
> > Date d = new GregorianCalendar().getTime();
> > DateFormat df = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.LONG);
> > this.date = df.format(d);
> > }
> >
> > public String getNow()
> > {
> > return date;
> > }
> >
> > /**
> > * do nothing
> > */
> > public void refresh()
> > {
> > }
> >
> > }
> >
> > You can go to the pool how-to to see how to configure your TR.prop file
> >
> > David Worms
> >
> > On Monday, October 21, 2002, at 12:09 PM, Colin Chalmers wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Using Velocity with Tubine and would like to know if there's somewhere
> > > I can set a *global* variable which is applicable to (almost) all
> > > templates. I want to set a date format which I can use to show the
> > > date in a number of templates. I tried to add a #set statement to the
> > > global_macros file but things went wrong. Any ideas? Can't imagine I
> > > have to add #set to each and every template.
> > >
> > > Any help appreciated.
> > >
> > > /Colin
> >
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