Re: Homepage definition

At 17:22 21/03/2005, you wrote:
>Hi!
>
>In the Administration Guide you mention in the chapter "Manage Home Page 
>Definition":
>
> >Currently you can only create a home page definition which links to an 
> existing Jahia page. A
> >future release of Jahia may permit to use home page definitions to 
> automatically create a new
> >page based on a previously chosen template when creating a new 
> user/group or when setting
> >a home page for a user/group.
>
>We would like to have this. Have you already prepared something? Are there 
>any pitfalls you already thought of?

Automatically creating a sub-set of pages in Jahia is still quite complex. 
So we wanted to wait for the implementation of the XML import/export module 
(Jahia 4.5) in order to be able to store some generic XML file to generate 
some pre-defined pages, lists, etc... you may then call each time you 
create a new user.

Meanwhile you may develop something more custom by forcing the use of a 
modified version of the Registration/MySettings engine and which would 
automatically add some pre-defined pages somehwehere on your site.

>We would also like to add an "external URL" as homepage for a group.
>
>The background to it: We have implemented a organization management, where 
>certain groups represent organizations and will have its own Jahia 
>homepage. Some organizations maybe already have an external homepage.
>
>The endUser gets a navigation tree, where all organizations (stored as 
>groups) are displayed in a tree. Some of them have a Jahia homepage, some 
>of them an external homepage and some of them don't have a homepage yet.

Clearly it is quite a while (Jahia 3.0) that we developed this feature, so 
perhaps you may want to take a look directly in the code to see what we did 
at that time...

Cheers
Stéphane


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>
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