Re: Editable Areas in Header and Footer

Anish schrieb:
>> 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'm bit confused that how will I achieve editable dedicated documents. I 
> want to go with two documents like one for header and one for footer and 
> user will be able to edit these dedicated document (even with CMS 
> editors like TinyMCE, Firedocs).

I'm not sure if I understand your question.

ToDo:

* create two XHTML documents, e.g. /shared/header, /shared/footer
* set navigation visibility to "false"
* add the include statements to the page template (site:/shared/header)

Maybe you need to add a particular format for the XHTML resource type to 
prepare your header and footer documents for inclusion. You find more 
information on this subject on the website.

In the next step you can use meta data to store the reference as 
suggested by Thorsten.

HTH,

-- Andreas


> Please suggest.
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> 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.
>>
>> 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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