RE: Homepage definition

Beginining of Fall 2005.

At 03:14 30/03/2005, you wrote:
>What is the 4.5 release timetable?
>
>
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>From: Stéphane Croisier [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 8:09 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: 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
>
>
>>Greetings,
>>Benjamin Papez
>>
>>System Architect
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