Alex Can you give snippets of your copletinstancedata/portal.xml file and your sitemap.xmap? Laurent
> -----Message d'origine----- > De�: Alex Romayev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoy�: mardi 20 janvier 2004 00:21 > ��: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet�: RE: [portal] Linking to portal pages > > Laurent, > > I think I'm almost there, however I'm getting an error > and I believe it is because I don't quite understand > your point #2 and making some mistake there. The > error that I get is: > > org.apache.cocoon.ProcessingException: Failed to > execute pipeline.: > org.apache.commons.jxpath.JXPathException: Exception > trying to set value with xpath parameters/news-id; > Cannot set property /parameters/news-id, path does not > match a changeable location. > > Please see my comments below. > > Thanks, > -Alex > > > --- Laurent Trillaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alex > > Yes, but it's a bad idea, because you haven't > > insurance about coplets > > synchronization, and you will not have the benefit > > of the history record of > > the portal. > > The good design is to use coplet attributes. > > 1. Declare an attributes in > > copletinstancedata/portal.xml > > <coplet-instance-data id="MyCoplet-1" > > name="standard"> > > <coplet-data>MyCoplet</coplet-data> > > <attribute> > > <name>MyAttribute</name> > > <value > > > xsi:type="java:java.lang.String">MyDefaultValue</value> > > </attribute> > > </coplet-instance-data> > > OK, I did that -- my coplet instance is named > "news-item-1" and the attribute "news-id". I also > noticed that the sample places the attributes in > coplet definitions rather than coplet instances, does > it matter? > > > 2. Use the portal-coplet transformer to set the > > attribute > > <cl:links> > > <cl:link layout="maintab" value="1" > > path="aspectDatas/tab"/> > > <cl:link coplet="MyCoplet-1" value="MyValue" > > path="parameters/MyAttribute"/> > > <cl:content>My News Page</cl:content> > > </cl:links> > > It will produce another event on the href > > <a > > > href="portal?portal-action=n&portal-event=m&portal-event=m+1> > > My News Page</a> > > Be careful, to access to the MyCoplet-1 attributes > > this transformer need to > > be call by the MyCoplet itself and with the cocoon > > protocol. > > I'm not sure what you mean. In my case I have 2 > coplet instances: news-list-1 and news-item-1. Each > item in the news list needs to have a link to the > corresponding news item. So I put the above code in > the news-list-1 coplet and used the coplet-transformer > to generate the ancor tag. > > When I click on the generated link, I get the "path > does not match a changeable location" error. > > If it's not the > > case use the portal action to 'load' it in memory. > > <map:act type="portal-object-model"> > > <map:parameter name="portalName" value="portal" /> > > <map:parameter name="CopletId" value="MyCoplet-1" /> > > </map:act> > > I think this is my case, since my news-list coplet > needs to call news-item coplet. Where do I place > this? > > > 3. use it > > Read value from the coplet input module. For example > > to use it with an xsl > > <map:match pattern="MyCoplet.html"> > > <map:generate src="MyData.xml" /> > > <map:transform src="xml2html.xsl"> > > <map:parameter name="MyParameter" > > value="{coplet:attributes/MyAttribute}"/> > > </map:transform> > > <map:serialize /> > > </map:match> > > > > Laurent Trillaud > > > > > > > -----Message d'origine----- > > > De : Alex Romayev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Envoyi : lundi 19 janvier 2004 15:31 > > > @ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Objet : RE: [portal] Linking to portal pages > > > > > > Thanks Laurent -- that works great! > > > > > > Another question, is there a way to pass a request > > > parameter with it, so that the anchor is something > > > like: > > > > > > <a > > > > > > href="portal?portal-action=n&portal-event=m&news-id=x>My> > > > News Page</a> > > > > > > Thanks, > > > -Alex > > > > > > --- Laurent Trillaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Events in the new portal engine are very > > powerful > > > > but totally misdocumented. > > > > If you want a link to switch to a News tab in > > your > > > > portal you need to create > > > > an event to say to the maintab composite layout > > to > > > > switch to is second > > > > layout (0 based index) and send it to the > > portal. > > > > Hoppefully, the portal-coplet transformer will > > do it > > > > for you > > > > <cl:links> > > > > <cl:link layout="maintab" value="1" > > > > path="aspectDatas/tab"/> > > > > <cl:content>My News Page</cl:content> > > > > </cl:links> > > > > will be replace by > > > > <map:transform type="portal-coplet" /> > > > > by an anchor > > > > <a > > href="portal?portal-action=n&portal-event=m>My > > > > News Page</a> > > > > where n and m are auto-incremented integer. > > > > > > > > If the link can't be compute inside the portal, > > you > > > > can use the bookmark > > > > feature of the portal . The sample include with > > > > cocoon use > > > > it(portal/resources/bookmarks.xml). > > > > Just write a link > > > > <a > > > > > > > > > > href="http://myserver/myproject/portal/bookmark?showtab=1";> > > > > My News Page</a> and it will do the same thing. > > > > > > > > Laurent Trillaud > > > > > > > > > -----Message d'origine----- > > > > > De : Alex Romayev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Envoyi : vendredi 16 janvier 2004 23:20 > > > > > @ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Objet : [portal] Linking to portal pages > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I am porting my site from old portal-fw to the > > new > > > > > portal engine. I was able to port all the > > coplets > > > > and > > > > > pages with any problems, however, I got really > > > > stuck > > > > > on events. I am clearly missing the point > > here, > > > > so > > > > > could someone at least point me in the right > > > > direction > > > > > (an example would be great!)? > > > > > > > > > > I need to create a links to my portal pages > > from > > > > > within coplet content. For example, I used to > > > > have > > > > > News page, so I could use the following: > > > > > > > > > > <a href=portal/news>News</a> > > > > > > > > > > Now my News page is represented as a tab. How > > > > would I > > > > > generate the right link to this page? > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > -Alex > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > ===== > > > Alex Romayev > > > Software Architect > > > http://www.romayev.com > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ===== > Alex Romayev > Software Architect > http://www.romayev.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
