Thanks for the response Giancarlo, and the suggestions.
I really like the idea of adding a separate Config node to store
project related constants - I could even see storing the css file and
template related images in that fashion.
I would still like to access some properties from the page's
template, however. Two main reason why: I would like to keep the
page properties as 'simple' as possible so that a user can pick a
template and not have to worry about config options for the page -
just start adding paragraphs (within reason of course). Second, I
would like to add some parameters for just that template that I can
change via the admin console and all of the pages based on that
template would update.
I looked at the Template API, but this doesn't seem to provide a way
to find out which Template is in use for the current page - there
must be a property of the page that reveals its template, but I can't
seem to find the property name anywhere. Any suggestions on where to
look?
Thanks again,
Eric Everman
On Sep 26, 2005, at 8:10 PM, Giancarlo F. Berner wrote:
Hi Eric
You can access Template Information bei using the class
"info.magnolia.cms.beans.config.Template". Check the API Doc for
more information.
But I am wondering why you want to add the property "show-left-
column" to the template. Wouldn't it make more sense to keep this
value individual for every webpage? Either create a Dialog and add
that property there, or then add that property to the "page
properties" dialog.
Another possibility is to create a configuration setup in the
"Config" repository, where you can create properties to fine tune
your web application. For example you could create a node within
Config like "myProject/internet" and "myProject/intranet" and below
each node add the same property "show-left-column". This way you
could use the same template for the intranet and internet and adapt
the behavior according to these config parameters.
cheers
/giancarlo
Eric Everman wrote:
Hi-
I'm likely missing something really obvious, but....
How do I access template properties from the page? For instance,
I have a modules/templating/Templates/some-template with a node-
data entry of "show-left-column" = "true". How do I access that
in a page that is using the template?
Thanks in advance,
Eric Everman
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