Re: Template per section

In <[email protected]> Michael Zeltner  wrote:
> Jock Coats wrote:
>> And would like to load a completely different template for each.
> 
> just a small note: template changes for designs/layout are *bad* ;)

Why?  If there is another way to do it I would be very pleased to know.  
I read the various documents about the Plone site and one or two other 
places and have tinkered, for example, with CSS to make some changes.  
And I would probably be able to get some more mileage out of CSS changes, 
so that different sections of the site took on different colours and so 
on.

But what we really want are different layouts per section.  We have some 
nice photos of our members on stage performing, and they won't all allow 
content in the same places - some photos are of a person down one side 
of a photo so the content would go in a large box to the one side, 
others have an artiste in the middle of the photo and we would want to 
put menu down one side and content down the other.  Some only have space 
for content along the top or bottom of a photo.

Some of these may indeed be static introductory pages with links 
manually coded into the database backed content areas, but if I can make 
reasonable 'templates' (well that's what I am calling them - it looks 
like I really mean 'layouts') to fit onto the photos themselves, we 
would like to use them for database backed content if we can.

But if I am making life uber-complex for myself, let me know and I will 
look at different options.  But I really would like to stay with Zope/
Plone, and I assume that as I learn a little more I'll be able to find 
workarounds.  But I'll give your suggestion a go anyway (if I can work 
out the python script bit - that'll be my first one of those!).

Thanks,

Jock




> 
>> Is such a thing possible?  I'm guessing that it has something to do 
>> with 'acquisition' in the skinning system, but cannot seem to see how 
>> or where I would do it.
> 
> create different skins which have all different version of the files 
> you  need on the section.
>
> and then switch the skin for a folder with an access rule (create a 
> python script and then an access rule that uses it) that uses 
> context.changeSkin('super_bloated_skin')
> 
> please send us a not if it worked ;) then i'll set up a howto
> 
> regards, michael
> 
> PS: <sarcasm>seems like we can remove this list and point everyone to 
> my  inbox</sarcasm> ;P ;)



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