On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 14:50 -0400, Paterline, David L. wrote: > Hello - > > I'm a new user of Forrest, and am investigating its use as an interface for > our online computer code documentation. Unfortunately, we will need two > different 'views' of the site - one for internal users and a second, more > restricted version for external users. > > Simply put, there will be some information (some links) which we only wish > to show to our internal users. > > I'm hoping to be able to generate these two views without duplicating > information, to minimize maintenance cost and errors. > > So, my question is, can I somehow mark certain portions of the information, > then do two builds - one for internal, with "include=all" and one for > external with "exclude=somestuff"? >
I am answering you because you said you are in the process of evaluating forrest. What I am going to write is *not* fully included in the 0.7 release (it is in the whiteboard) but will hopefully go officially into 0.8. We have created a new skinning engine that we called "views". With this engine it will be possible to define *role specific* views within *one* file. Right now this new engine is only a prototype implementation but we will work on it once we did the 0.7 release. Like I stated in the introduction I just mention that because you said you are evaluating forrest. ...and we already have one site that is build with views: http://resolute.ucsd.edu/diwaker salu2 -- thorsten "Together we stand, divided we fall!" Hey you (Pink Floyd)
