Re: Editable Areas in Header and Footer

>
> 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.

Thanks Thorsten,

The problem I'm facing with this approach is  I'm unable  to  have a 
common header and footer as the information will come from individual 
meta (page specific meta data)



Thorsten Scherler wrote:
> 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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Anish Sneh
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