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Re: left bar content area
United States	2007-05-04 09:52:36

Somewhere the value for editable types is stored, because you can add it to the config screen. /samples/meshcms/admin/editconfig1.jsp >> Visually editable types: ----- Original Message ---- From: Larry Morroni <larrymorroni.com> To: General discussion about MeshCMS <meshcms-discussionlists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Friday, May 4, 2007 10:35:54 AM Subject: Re: [MeshCMS-Discussion] left bar content area I followed this and it looks great.  The one issue I had was that when I went to visually edit newsflash.jspi in the filemanager, I get "Some errors have occurred:  newsflash.jspi cannot be edited visually. Any way to get around that? Thanks, Larry Alan Burlison wrote: >; I've done something slightly similar already.  In my case it wasn't >; a left bar, but headers and footers - however the principle should be > the same. ; I used the parse module to insert the header into the page > body: > > ;   <cms:ifnotediting> >      ; <cms:module location="newsflash" >   ;     name="parse:/newsflash/newsflash.jspi" /> > ;   </cms:ifnotediting> > > This inserts the content of newsflash/newsflash.jspi into each page at > the correct place, and I can edit /newsflash/newsflash.jspi by > navigating to it in the file manager. newsflash.jsp doesn't actually > contain any dynamic content, but it could if required: > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" >;   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> > <% taglib uri="meshcms-taglib" prefix="cms" %> > <html> > <head> > <title>Newsflash</title> > </head> > <body> > <center> > <table border="0" cellspacing="10"> >   <tbody> >      ; <tr> > ;         <td><img alt="News Flash!" src="<cms:contextpath > />/newsflash/newsflash.gif" title="News Flash!" /></td> > ;         <td><strong><span class="large">Something > Important!</span></strong></td> > ;       </tr>; > ;   </tbody> > </table> > </center> > </body> > </html> > > The other thing necessary is to tell Tomcat how to handle the jspi files: >; > ;   <servlet-mapping> >        <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>; > ;       <url-pattern>*.jspi</url-pattern> >    </servlet-mapping> > > Calling them '.jspi' instead of '.jsp' stops MeshCMS from trying to > handle the files itself, and configuring Tomcat so it knows about them > means that they still get rendered corrrectly before MeshCMS interst > their content into the output page. > > It is also possible to include content that changes depending on which > part of the document tree you are in, using the searchfile tag: > > ;   <cms:ifnotediting> >      ; <cms:searchfile name="sponsor.jspi" include="true" /> > ;   </cms:ifnotediting> > > So this will look 'up' the document tree and find the 'nearest' > sponsor.jspi file, then include it in the page at the appropriate > point - again, this file can be edited using the MeshCMS file manager. > -- Larry Morroni (larrymorroni.com) voice:  610.891.9922 http://morroni.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ MeshCMS-Discussion mailing list MeshCMS-Discussionlists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/meshcms-discussion Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center.

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