Rick, this is probably not the cleanest solution but it works for me.
tiles-def.xml:
<tiles-definitions>
<definition name=".base" path="/templates/layout.jsp" >
<put name="header" value="/templates/header.jsp"/>
<put name="menu" value="/templates/menu.jsp"/>
<put name="footer" value="/templates/footer.jsp"/>
</definition>
<definition name=".welcome" extends=".base" >
<put name="title" value="title.welcome" />
<put name="content" value="/WEB-INF/form/welcome.jsp"/>
</definition>
<definition name=".login" extends=".base" >
<put name="title" value="title.loginpage" />
<put name="content" value="/WEB-INF/form/login.jsp"/>
</definition>
</tiles-definitions>
layout.jsp:
<head>
<link rel=stylesheet type="text/css"
href="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/templates/layout.css"/>
<tiles:useAttribute id="title" name="title" />
<title>
<bean:message key="${title}" scope="page"/>
</title>
<tiles:get name="header" /><!-- I only use header.jsp to
add meta tags -->
</head>
<body>
<center>
<h1>
<bean:message key="${title}.header"
scope="page"/>
</h1>
</center>
</body>
ApplicationResources.properties:
title.loginpage= System LOGIN PAGE
title.loginpage.header=LOGIN PAGE
Hopefully this help.
Shed.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Reumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 12:27
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Been a while sinced used Tiles... can someone help?
Ok, the recent Tiles questions posts I had were in relation to how I can
create dynamic titles/labels. For example I might have a layout
definition that has a header.jsp and in that header I need provide a
label for the user to view that could look like...
"Welcome John Doe, we love your company Acme Incorporated"
What I want to be able to do is set up in header.jsp a way to use the
label that comes from the tiles definition, but also then can use the
custom stuff I set up in the Action such as "John Doe" and "Acme Inc."
What I was planning on doing is setting up generic vars to represent
what could be substituted such as labelVarA = "JohnDoe", labelVarB =
"Acme Incorporated" then I'd stuff them into Request scope as labelVarA,
and labelVarB.
greeting.message=Welcome {0}, we love your company {1}
Then if I have in my definition:
<tiles:insert page="mainLayout.jsp">
<tiles:put name="myLabel" value="greeting.message"/>
<tiles:put name="header" value="header.jsp"/>
...
</tiles:insert>
Can I just do in my header.jsp?:
<fmt:message key="${myLabel}">
<fmt:param value='${labelVarA}'/>
<fmt:param value='${labelVarB}'/>
<fmt:param value='${labelVarC}'/>
<fmt:param value='${labelVarD}'/>
</fmt:message>
Overall, I'm having a difficult time grasping how you can create dynamic
labels/titles. For example a main layout might look like...
<html>
<head><title>
???tiles insert so that this title might be partially dynamic
so I can't just use <tiles:getAsString name="title"/>
</title></head>
<body>
*** this header needs the dynamic capabilities as described above
***
<tiles:insert attribute="header.jsp"/>
<tiles:insert attribute="someBlock.jsp"/>
<tiles:insert attribute="someOtherBlock.jsp"/>
<tiles:insert attribute="content.jsp"/>
<tiles:insert attribute="footer.jsp"/>
</body>
</html>
I don't want to hard code the label/titles in my Action class (except
for the relevant params needed.. ie in example above user name, comp
name). I have to problem creating extra tiles definitions with label
definitions but I'm not sure how to set the defintions up so that they
can handle dynamic parameters?
thanks
--
Rick
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