A bit of design help please?
Hi, I am wondering how the following can be done in Struts. You have a page with two frames, one being a navigation frame consisting of a series of links that populate the second frame. On start-up the second frame has a log in screen and the navigation frame just has a company image. On successful login you want the navigation pane to have a series of links to tasks that the user can do. They click on a task and the second frame fills with a form etc. When the user logs out or the session is killed the navigation frame links are removed. How can I control and keep the navigation frame synchronised with what is going on? Any help is appreciated. Alex
Re: A bit of design help please?
alex-- i think the best way to do this is not to have the frameset appear until after a successful login. obviously, you don't want the links to your functional areas to appear until after the user has been authenticated. so throw up a non-framed page which contains your login form. after authenticating the user, forward to your frameset, where you can dynamically build navigation links in the navigation frame based on permissions, etc, and where you can prepopulate the content pane with a default page until the user selects a link. targeting the content pane from the link is simple HTML (a href=/SomeAction.do target=contentlink text/a). your forward should then go to the content pane, where your output is displayed. when the session dies or the user logs out, simply forward him/her to the login page or some other non-framed page. hope this helps... Original Message Follows From: Alex Colic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: A bit of design help please? Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:59:06 -0400 Hi, I am wondering how the following can be done in Struts. You have a page with two frames, one being a navigation frame consisting of a series of links that populate the second frame. On start-up the second frame has a log in screen and the navigation frame just has a company image. On successful login you want the navigation pane to have a series of links to tasks that the user can do. They click on a task and the second frame fills with a form etc. When the user logs out or the session is killed the navigation frame links are removed. How can I control and keep the navigation frame synchronised with what is going on? Any help is appreciated. Alex _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
RE: A bit of design help please?
I have always found that frames are bad, that is why I recommend using templates. We have a default template (with the nav bar, header, footer) and then pass the content in as a parameter. Carl -Original Message- From: Alex Colic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 8:59 AM To: Struts Subject: A bit of design help please? Hi, I am wondering how the following can be done in Struts. You have a page with two frames, one being a navigation frame consisting of a series of links that populate the second frame. On start-up the second frame has a log in screen and the navigation frame just has a company image. On successful login you want the navigation pane to have a series of links to tasks that the user can do. They click on a task and the second frame fills with a form etc. When the user logs out or the session is killed the navigation frame links are removed. How can I control and keep the navigation frame synchronised with what is going on? Any help is appreciated. Alex
RE: A bit of design help please?
may I ask exactly how you implement this? (Passing content in as a parameter). D you have a paramter called, say content_id, and dependent on this you forward to the relevant action? Or include output from a relevant jsp? Thanks in advance. -Original Message- From: George, Carl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 August 2001 15:11 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: A bit of design help please? I have always found that frames are bad, that is why I recommend using templates. We have a default template (with the nav bar, header, footer) and then pass the content in as a parameter. Carl -Original Message- From: Alex Colic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 8:59 AM To: Struts Subject: A bit of design help please? Hi, I am wondering how the following can be done in Struts. You have a page with two frames, one being a navigation frame consisting of a series of links that populate the second frame. On start-up the second frame has a log in screen and the navigation frame just has a company image. On successful login you want the navigation pane to have a series of links to tasks that the user can do. They click on a task and the second frame fills with a form etc. When the user logs out or the session is killed the navigation frame links are removed. How can I control and keep the navigation frame synchronised with what is going on? Any help is appreciated. Alex =** If you are not the intended recipient, employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination or copying of this communication and its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication and its attachments in error, please return the original message and attachments to the sender using the reply facility on e-mail. Internet communications are not secure and therefore the UCLES Group does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the UCLES Group unless otherwise specifically stated. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses although this does not guarantee that this email is virus free. **=
Re: A bit of design help please?
Hi, Thanks for the reply. Just a bit of elaboration. What I should do is have a simple login page. No problem. On successful login I send them to a framed page. So far so good. Question about this dynamic links. Could you elaborate on how to create them using struts? Alex -- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 09:37:04 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Jon Crater [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A bit of design help please? Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] alex-- i think the best way to do this is not to have the frameset appear until after a successful login. obviously, you don't want the links to your functional areas to appear until after the user has been authenticated. so throw up a non-framed page which contains your login form. after authenticating the user, forward to your frameset, where you can dynamically build navigation links in the navigation frame based on permissions, etc, and where you can prepopulate the content pane with a default page until the user selects a link. targeting the content pane from the link is simple HTML (a href=/SomeAction.do target=contentlink text/a). your forward should then go to the content pane, where your output is displayed. when the session dies or the user logs out, simply forward him/her to the login page or some other non-framed page. hope this helps...
RE: A bit of design help please?
Here is the template file: %@ taglib uri='/WEB-INF/tlds/struts-template.tld' prefix='template' % %@ taglib uri=/WEB-INF/tlds/struts.tld prefix=struts % % String msg = request.getParameter(page); % template:insert template='/NavTemplate.jsp' template:put name='title' content='Navigation' direct='true'/ template:put name='header' content='/NavBar.jsp' / template:put name='sidebar' content='/sidebar2.jsp' / template:put name='content' content='%= msg %' / template:put name='footer' content='/footer.html' / /table so the call would be http://server/Nav.jsp?page=theContentpage.jsp -Original Message- From: Mike Dewhirst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 10:15 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: A bit of design help please? may I ask exactly how you implement this? (Passing content in as a parameter). D you have a paramter called, say content_id, and dependent on this you forward to the relevant action? Or include output from a relevant jsp? Thanks in advance. -Original Message- From: George, Carl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 August 2001 15:11 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: A bit of design help please? I have always found that frames are bad, that is why I recommend using templates. We have a default template (with the nav bar, header, footer) and then pass the content in as a parameter. Carl -Original Message- From: Alex Colic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 8:59 AM To: Struts Subject: A bit of design help please? Hi, I am wondering how the following can be done in Struts. You have a page with two frames, one being a navigation frame consisting of a series of links that populate the second frame. On start-up the second frame has a log in screen and the navigation frame just has a company image. On successful login you want the navigation pane to have a series of links to tasks that the user can do. They click on a task and the second frame fills with a form etc. When the user logs out or the session is killed the navigation frame links are removed. How can I control and keep the navigation frame synchronised with what is going on? Any help is appreciated. Alex =** If you are not the intended recipient, employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination or copying of this communication and its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication and its attachments in error, please return the original message and attachments to the sender using the reply facility on e-mail. Internet communications are not secure and therefore the UCLES Group does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the UCLES Group unless otherwise specifically stated. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses although this does not guarantee that this email is virus free. **=
Re: A bit of design help please?
in your action class, create a collection of objects that the current user is allowed to access based upon his/her application permissions. i would envision the class of the collection member containing at least: String targetUrl; String linkText; and anything else that's relevant to your navigation menu. set that object as a session-scoped bean and iterate through it from your navigation jsp. alternatively, a better place for this collection is in a user profile object, which you could create on login to your application. put a reference to the collection inside your user profile object, set the user profile as a session scoped bean, then expose the collection to the jsp and iterate through it using the iterate tag. jon Original Message Follows From: Alex Colic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A bit of design help please? Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:27:23 -0400 Hi, Thanks for the reply. Just a bit of elaboration. What I should do is have a simple login page. No problem. On successful login I send them to a framed page. So far so good. Question about this dynamic links. Could you elaborate on how to create them using struts? Alex -- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 09:37:04 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Jon Crater [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A bit of design help please? Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] alex-- i think the best way to do this is not to have the frameset appear until after a successful login. obviously, you don't want the links to your functional areas to appear until after the user has been authenticated. so throw up a non-framed page which contains your login form. after authenticating the user, forward to your frameset, where you can dynamically build navigation links in the navigation frame based on permissions, etc, and where you can prepopulate the content pane with a default page until the user selects a link. targeting the content pane from the link is simple HTML (a href=/SomeAction.do target=contentlink text/a). your forward should then go to the content pane, where your output is displayed. when the session dies or the user logs out, simply forward him/her to the login page or some other non-framed page. hope this helps... _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
