Re: Template-trouble

Hi Clemens,

> Have You looked as the API.txt?
Just did. ;) It's exactly what I was looking for. 

> If You want, You _can_ include another page template [...]
That's kind of what I did: I created a file called 'left' in the SMI, and included it in the layout_macro.
Not sure if that's the right thing to do, but it worked.

This will get me started, thanks a lot!

Regards,
Yuri Smetsers


Clemens Robbenhaar wrote:

>Hi Yuri,
>
> some short reply:
>
> > 
> > As said, the left column is used for navigation/indexing. Example: at 
> > the 'people'-section, the left-column should contain a full listing of 
> > all employee-templates in the 'people'  folder. (Each employee has its 
> > own template with some info.)
> > I tried using a separate template called 'left', which contained a 
> > manually maintained listing. Not an option. ;)
> > 
> > Is there a way to retrieve a listing of templates in a folder, filter 
> > and display them?
>
> Have You looked as the API.txt? The current version should be available here:
>
>http://cvs.infrae.com/SilvaDocumentation/API.txt?rev=1.12&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
>
>
> If You want, You _can_ include another page template (or DTML if that
>fits You better) via some line like:
>
>  <tal:block content="structure here/left" />
>
>Anyway hand maintaned lists are a bad option if the software gives You
>things like the "get_ordered_publishables", which is most probably what
>You want to look for.
>
> > #2)
> > 
> > For the menu, I used dhtmlcentral's CoolMenus. It's a Javascript-based 
> > script which uses it's own stylesheet.
> > Our adapted version looks like this:
> > 
> > [ item][ item ][ item ][ item ] [ ... ]
> > 
> > Implementing the menu was quite easy, but it has to be dynamic. So if 
> > i.e. section News has no items, item 'News' shouldn't be visible.
> > Is it possible to check for a section whether it's filled or not?
>
> Hm, I have never heard about this CoolMenus stuff ... however 
>if You want to filter for non-empty folders, You maybe could use the
>"is_published" method. For folders this is true iff it contains
>published objects, which is most proabaly what You want ... if would not
>make a lot of sense to show a link to the 'News' section if its not
>empty but none of the content objects inside are published.
>
>Hope this helps a little,
>Clemens
>
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