Re: Editable Areas in Header and Footer

Hi Anish,

Anish schrieb:
> Hi All
> 
> I want to have editable areas in header and footer for the publication. 
> For that I have considered following points:
> 
>     * There will be editable components (like header background, logo
>       image, header text, footer text, links etc) in header and footer.
>       These components will be decided at the time of development.
>     * User will be able to change the logo, header links, footer, links
>       etc. using CMS.

>     * I'm considering meta data for storing this header and footer
>       information/data, this meta data will be editable by user (using CMS).

I'd recommend to use dedicated documents for the shared header and 
footer information. This is a typical usage scenario. The purpose of 
meta data is storing information about documents, but since the header 
and footer are actual content, I wouldn't store them in meta data fields.

You can just reference the dedicated documents using Cocoon include or 
XInclude statements, probably with the site: protocol, in the page 
template. A subsequent include transformation will insert them in the 
rendered page.

>     * User will change this header/footer meta data once and new
>       header/footer will get reflected for all the pages (even on the
>       creation of new XHTML document).

If you use dedicated documents, your users will be able to edit the 
content of the header and footer using the existing WYSIWYG editors.

HTH,

-- Andreas


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