Re: Editable Areas in Header and Footer

On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 13:37 +0100, Andreas Hartmann wrote:
> 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.

I would store a reference as meta data to the docs. This way you can
have different header and footers on different pages without any pain.

salu2

> 
> 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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