On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 13:37 +0100, Andreas Hartmann wrote: > Hi Anish, > > Anish schrieb: > > Hi All > > > > I want to have editable areas in header and footer for the publication. > > For that I have considered following points: > > > > * There will be editable components (like header background, logo > > image, header text, footer text, links etc) in header and footer. > > These components will be decided at the time of development. > > * User will be able to change the logo, header links, footer, links > > etc. using CMS. > > > * I'm considering meta data for storing this header and footer > > information/data, this meta data will be editable by user (using CMS). > > I'd recommend to use dedicated documents for the shared header and > footer information. This is a typical usage scenario. The purpose of > meta data is storing information about documents, but since the header > and footer are actual content, I wouldn't store them in meta data fields.
I would store a reference as meta data to the docs. This way you can have different header and footers on different pages without any pain. salu2 > > You can just reference the dedicated documents using Cocoon include or > XInclude statements, probably with the site: protocol, in the page > template. A subsequent include transformation will insert them in the > rendered page. > > > * User will change this header/footer meta data once and new > > header/footer will get reflected for all the pages (even on the > > creation of new XHTML document). > > If you use dedicated documents, your users will be able to edit the > content of the header and footer using the existing WYSIWYG editors. > > HTH, > > -- Andreas > > -- Thorsten Scherler <thorsten.at.apache.org> Open Source Java <consulting, training and solutions> Sociedad Andaluza para el Desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información, S.A.U. (SADESI) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
