Hi Greg
Really what I'm after now I'm looking at it more carefully is a way of
composing layouts from other layouts where the layouts themselves have some
flexibility in terms of the components that are inserted into them. This
seems such a basic requirement that I wonder if I'm missing something
obvious.
Has no-one else wanted this facility? I would have thought you would be able
to nest the put tags where the outer put is a tile...
Example.
OuterLayout.jsp
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<tiles:insert attribute="Menu" />
<tiles:insert attribute="Title" />
<tiles:insert attribute="Content" />
</body>
</html>
InnerLayout.jsp
<tiles:insert attribute="Mandatory" />
<tiles:insert attribute="Optional1" />
<tiles:insert attribute="Optional2" />
<definition name="tile.outer" path="/layout/OuterLayout.jsp">
<put name="Title" value="/pageComponents/GenericTitle.jsp" />
<put name="Menu" value="/pageComponents/Menu.jsp" />
</definition>
<definition name="tile.inner" path="/layout/InnerLayout.jsp">
<put name="Mandatory" value="/pageComponents/Mandatory.jsp" />
</definition>
<definition name="tile.page1" extends="tile.outer" >
<!-- insert into OuterLayout -->
<put name="Title" value="/pageComponents/GenericTitle.jsp" />
<put name="Content" value="tile.inner" >
<put name="Optional1" value="/pageComponents/Optional1.jsp"
/>
<put name="Optional2" value="/pageComponents/Optional2.jsp"
/>
</put>
</definition>
However the put tag doesn't take nested elements. I tried already. I'm sure
there must be way to do this though. Is there a way to make layouts extend
other layouts. I.e. in the example above could I specify a third layout that
combined the inner and outer into a third one somehow?
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Reddin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 23 November 2005 18:37
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: Tiles Again - Can anyone help?
On Nov 23, 2005, at 12:09 PM, Leahy, Kevin wrote:
> <definition name="tile.form" path="/layout/FormLayout.jsp" >
> <put name="AlwaysThereFilter"
> value="/pageComponents/AlwaysThereFilter.jsp" />
> </definition>
>
> But now I want to user the base tiles for actual pages.
> I want to be able to insert components into both layouts i.e.
>
> <definition name="tile.form1" extends="tile.base" >
> <put name="title" value="Form 1 Page" />
> <put name="body" value="tile.form" />
> <put name="SometimeFilter"
> value="/pageComponents/SometimeFilter.jsp" /> </definition>
>
> When I try this, it just doesn't display the components inserted (
> supposedly ) into the FormLayout.
I think your SometimeFilter would need to be in "tile.form" instead of
"tile.form1"
Unfortunately, the only way I can think of to do that in definitions is
this:
<definition name="tile.form" path="/layout/FormLayout.jsp" >
<put name="AlwaysThereFilter"
value="/pageComponents/AlwaysThereFilter.jsp" />
</definition>
<definition name="tile.form.withSomeFilter" extends="tile.form">
<put name="SometimeFilter"
value="/pageComponents/SometimeFilter.jsp" /> </definition>
<definition name="tile.form1" extends="tile.base" >
<put name="title" value="Form 1 Page" />
<put name="body" value="tile. form.withSomeFilter" /> </definition>
I guess that's fine if you only have a couple different templates.
But your config file will get pretty cluttered if you have a lot.
Greg
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