RE: Overriding work around

Dear Martijn

> How is this called 'explicitly'? Browse to it directly like
> foo/bar/index? Does it fail if you browse directly to a
> non-index document?
On my installation (Zope 2.7.4, Silva 1.2) if done the following:
In the silva root I've created a page template 'override.html'.
Now when I request 'http://localhost:port/silva/' I see the override
template displayed. Now when I request 'http://localhost:port/silva/index',
the content of the index document is rendered in the traditional Silva
layout. If I add another Silva document 'anotherDoc' in the Silva root
container and request it with 'http://localhost:port/silva/anotherDoc', this
new content again is displayed in the Silva layout and not with the override
template.

> If it is indeed not working for
> index documents but it does work for other documents, something quite
> peculiar looks to be going on that we need to investigate further.
I would say the behaviour is consistent: All documents are displayed not
overriden. Only the container that implicitely takes the default content is
rendered using override.html.

Regards,
Benno

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martijn Faassen [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Montag, 21. März 2005 17:01
> To: Luthiger Stoll, Benno
> Cc: silva-dev-IAPFreCvJWM6s/[email protected]
> Subject: Re: [silva-dev] Overriding work around
>
>
> Benno Luthiger wrote:
> > Dear Silva developers,
> >
> > With silva/index_html Silva offers the opportunity to
> override the standard
> > layout with a local layout. This is a nice feature and
> useful for some
> > abvious website designs. The override mechanisme works fine
> if the container
> > (e.g. Silva Folder or Publication) containing the override
> template is
> > called. However, it fails if the container's default
> document 'index' is
> > called explicitely.
>
> How is this called 'explicitly'? Browse to it directly like
> foo/bar/index? Does it fail if you browse directly to a
> non-index document?
>
> > And of course it fails in our situation where we
> > implemented multilingual support by simply postfixing the
> language key to
> > the document. Instead of displaying the content of
> 'mysite/index_DE' in the
> > override layout, the content is rendered with the default layout.
> > To overcome this problem I've modefied the Script
> 'index_html' slightly by
> > checking the context.id and installed this modified version
> somewhere beyond
> > the Silva Root:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Do you see a draw back with this work around?
>
> I think first we'll need to find out what the root cause is
> of override
> not being called for index documents. If it is indeed not working for
> index documents but it does work for other documents, something quite
> peculiar looks to be going on that we need to investigate further.
>
> Regards,
>
> Martijn
>