First, is this the appropriate list for tiles questions? If not, sorry, and
can someone tell me a better one...
I have the following two defintions in my tiles-def.xml file:
<definition name=".tiles.basePage" path="/pages/tiles/basePage.jsp">
<put name="additionalHead" value="/pages/tiles/empty.jsp" />
<put name="body" value="/pages/tiles/empty.jsp" />
<put name="footer" value="/pages/tiles/footer.jsp" />
<put name="pageName" value="This will be your page name"/>
</definition>
<definition name=".tiles.index" extends=".tiles.basePage">
<put name="pageName" value="index"/>
<put name="additionalHead" value="/pages/indexHead.jsp" />
<put name="body" value="/pages/indexBody.jsp"/>
</definition>
In the first definition, I have a footer attribute I am using. However,
inside the /pages/indexBody.jsp of the second definition (which extends the
first) I want to do a <tiles:insert attribute="footer"/> It is complaining
that it can't find it. Is there a way to do this? The reason I want to do
this is because I want to have a common footer attribute that sub
definitions can then use inside the body. If there is a better way, I am
all for it. It is my first tiles application, so learning as I go here.
I was able to get it to work by inside basePage.jsp I did:
<tiles:insert attribute="body">
<tiles:put name="footer" value="/pages/tiles/footer.jsp"/>
</tiles:insert>
However, that isn't exactly what I was looking for. In a later section, I
want to do:
<definition name=".tiles.leftNavPage" extends=".tiles.basePage">
<put name="body" value="/pages/tiles/leftNavPage.jsp" />
<put name="left" value="/pages/tiles/emtpy.jsp"/>
<put name="top" value="/pages/tiles/emtpy.jsp"/>
<put name="center" value="/pages/tiles/emtpy.jsp"/>
<put name="right" value="/pages/tiles/emtpy.jsp"/>
<put name="bottom" value="/pages/tiles/emtpy.jsp"/>
</definition>
And inside body I want to use left, top, center, right and bottom, and then
allow subpages to override the left, top, center right or bottom section.
If I am going about this wrong, please help me see the correct way to do it.
Thanks,
Irv
