Have you looked at tiles controllers? They can be defined at the definition or tile level, and can be used to dynamically include data into a tile at runtime? Specifically I use them with a small tag lib that populates a view JavaBean that is then passed to each tile.
-----Original Message----- From: David Erickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:04 PM To: Struts Mailing List Subject: Adding to a tiles definition at runtime? Is there any possible way to add additional variables to a tiles definition at runtime or to modify them? IE here is a definition: <definition name=".menu.Software" path="/tiles/menu.jsp"> <putList name="menus"> <add value="Home"/> <add value="SW1"/> <add value="SW2"/> <add value="SW3"/> <add value="SW4"/> <add value="SW5"/> <add value="SW6"/> </putList> </definition> And then my menu jsp iterates through that list of menus adding them. The problem is I need a seperate tiles definition for every possible menu configuration, and then if I want an action that forwards to a definition that could show different menus.. etc etc it gets to be a pain. So would it be possible to change whats in that list or add to that list in my action before I forward to a tiles def? *Shrug just trying to get some ideas together here*. If that is not possible then my next question is in my baselayout.jsp I have the <tiles:insert attribute="menu"/> tag. In which scope does it search for a variable named menu? and if i changed that to <tiles:insert attribute="$menu"/> or something of that nature could it change at runtime based on something in my request/or session scope? Thanks in advance! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
