David, Thanks for your reply on this. I haven't had a chance to look at the controller idea yet, hence have not replied. I will investigate when I am not up to my ears in other things.
Thanks for you time. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: David G. Friedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 November 2005 04:23 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Tiles Again - Can anyone help? Kevin, What you described is perfect for a controllerClass="..." or controllerUrl="..." attribute inside a tile definition, as I suggested ina previous post. A controller lets you add, remove, or alter the pieces of a tile. It sounds like you might want one of your items to be a list which you could add pieces to for automatic insertion of additional text/buttons/etc. Check out the tilesAdvancedFeatures.pdf file for more details. Again, you could make your Action class a tiles Action type class or simply put the logic into the tile using the controllerXXX="..." syntax options. Regards, David -----Original Message----- From: Leahy, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 7:48 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Tiles Again - Can anyone help? Yes what you provided works fine, but it doesn't allow me to 'put' other components into the 'OuterLayout' as well as into the 'InnerLayout'. What I'm trying to do is to have one generic layout that all pages following and then sublayouts that are more geared to different parts of the site. For example every page has the menu and a title ( and some other things ) so this would be reflected in the OuterLayout. But certain subsets of the pages are also very similar to one another. So pages 1,2,3,4 might have core components in common. And 5,6,7,8 might share a core of components, but have little in common with 1,2,3,4. These groupings seem like they should be given layouts of their own. So what I want is tiles that combine the outer and inner layouts so that I can put the title for each page into the 'OuterLayout' and to put other components to the inner layouts. I think what you've described below will force me to build a Form1Layout and Form2Layout which will both have the menu and the title components etc. ( cut and paste in other words ). When I want to change something that applies across the site ( i.e. where I would like it to be in the 'OuterLayout' ) I will have to change all the layouts. I apologise if I'm misunderstanding your suggestion, but at the moment that's how I see it. Of course this isn't going to stop me developing the site. I can work around as I'm currently doing, but it just seemed that this was something Tiles would allow you to do, so I figured there was probably a way of doing it. I followed your example of defining a tile with an innerlayout and then putting it into the body of the outerlayout and it worked fine and I could put components into the outerlayout, but I couldn't put components into the innerlayout at the same time. Is this something you think is possible? Thanks again. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Greg Reddin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 November 2005 22:35 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Tiles Again - Can anyone help? On Nov 23, 2005, at 4:13 PM, Leahy, Kevin wrote: > <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. You're right, that's not supported. I like the idea though. I wonder how hard it would be to support that. > 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? I thought the code I posted in my last response would basically do this. With Tiles anything can be a definition. If you just wrap up what you need in another definition then insert that, you should be able to accomplish what you want. Does the code reposted below not do that? > 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> > Greg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- The information contained herein is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. 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