I have slowly been working with Magnolia and setting up templates. I have
created a template for a left side navigation menu. What I want to be able to
do is use magnolia to be able to modify the menu with changes. I want this menu
to show up on any new page I create. I have added the following line of code to
my main page template to try to combine the menu with the page:
<c:import url="leftBarSectionTemplate.jsp"/>
However the problem I have is that the menu comes up blank for each new page
created. Naturally I don't want to re-create a new menu for every new page
created. What I want to be able to do is to configure the menu once and have
that menu show up on every page create. When I make a change to the menu I want
the change to be shown accross all pages. I am sure there is a way to do this,
but I can't find a good example on the wiki or handbook. Below is a snapshot of
the main page template. The trouble I am having is near the end of the code
(<c:import url="leftBarSectionTemplate.jsp"/>). This leftBarSectionTemplate.jsp
is the left side menu I am trying to have included in every new page.:
<%@ taglib uri="cms-taglib" prefix="cms" %>
<%@ taglib uri="cms-util-taglib" prefix="cmsu" %>
<%@ taglib uri="JSTL" prefix="c" %>
<cms:init/>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en-AU">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml;
charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="author" content="haran" />
<meta name="generator" content="haran" />
<!-- Navigational metadata for large websites (an accessibility
feature): -->
<link rel="top" href="./index.html" title="Homepage" />
<link rel="up" href="./index.html" title="Up" />
<link rel="first" href="./index.html" title="First page" />
<link rel="previous" href="./index.html" title="Previous page" />
<link rel="next" href="./index.html" title="Next page" />
<link rel="last" href="./index.html" title="Last page" />
<link rel="toc" href="./index.html" title="Table of contents" />
<link rel="index" href="./index.html" title="Site map" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="/docroot/frankman1/css/gila-screen.css" media="screen"
title="Gila (screen)" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="/docroot/frankman1/css/gila-print.css" media="print" />
<title><c:out value="${actpage.title}"/></title>
</head>
<body >
<cms:mainBar paragraph="frankman1PageProperties"/>
<!-- ##### Header ##### -->
<div id="header">
<h1 class="headerTitle">
<a href="./index" title="Browse to homepage">Gila
<span>Two</span></a>
</h1>
<div class="subHeader">
<table>
<span class="doNotDisplay">Navigation: </span>
<a href="./index.html">Products</a> |
<a href="./index.html">Solutions</a> |
<a href="./index.html">Store</a> |
<a href="./index.html">Support</a> |
<a href="./index.html">Contact Us</a> |
<a href="./index.html">About Us</a>
<cms:contentNodeIterator
contentNodeCollectionName="contentHBar">
<cms:adminOnly>
<tr>
<td>
<cms:editBar/>
</td>
</tr>
</cms:adminOnly>
<cms:includeTemplate/>
</cms:contentNodeIterator>
<cms:adminOnly>
<cms:newBar
contentNodeCollectionName="contentHBar" paragraph="hBarLink"/>
</cms:adminOnly>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<c:import url="leftBarSectionTemplate.jsp"/>
</body>
</html>
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