Andreas, This is a wild solution. I don't understand page 15 and I've used Tiles before, but not in this way. Could you explain it?
-----Original Message----- From: Andreas Toom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 1:58 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Multiple tiles layouts for single application Hello again, great pdf there, solved my problem nice and easy. Instead of a jsp in the path attribute of a definition I used a struts action which forwards to the right template, should work really nice. Thank you very much for the help! /Andreas Allistair Crossley wrote: > http://www.lifl.fr/~dumoulin/tiles/tilesAdvancedFeatures.pdf > > page 15 may help you > > Cheers. > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Andreas Toom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: 09 May 2005 15:33 >>To: Struts Users Mailing List >>Subject: Re: Multiple tiles layouts for single application >> >> >>Yes, but a tile definition is just a.. tile definition. All my >>definitions extends a base tile: >> >><definition name="com.acme.web.search.tiles.main" >>path="/front/tiles/tiles_front_main.jsp"> >> <put name="content" value="OVERRIDE THIS" /> >> <put name="title" value="Search here" /> >></definition> >> >><definition name="com.acme.web.search.tiles.search" >>extends="com.acme.web.search.tiles.main"> >> <put name="content" value="/search/pages/search.jsp" /> >></definition> >> >>And my forwards are: >> >><forward name="success" path="com.acme.web.search.tiles.search" /> >><forward name="failure" path="com.acme.web.search.tiles.error" /> >> >>So now, if a request has been made to >>http://mysite/?layout=layout1 or >>whatever it seems like a nice solution not have to change >>anything in my >>action configuration and instead have a filter/extension of a >>controller >>indicating which tile definitions to use, is this possible? >>or do I have >>to add a action-mapping/forward for each new site I want enable this >>search functionality? >> >>As I sad before, the main problem as I see it is the input >>parameter in >>form validation, I guess I could solve it with some action in >>the input >>parameter instead, but all those solutions feel ugly and >>leaves me with >>much work if anything is about to change.. >> >>Any other ideas? :) >> >>/Andreas >> >>Allistair Crossley wrote: >> >>>Your requests should be routing through a Struts Controller >> >>via an ActionMapping, and therefore your Action can examine >>the request and return the appropriate view which will be a >>forward to the tile definition of your choice. >> >>>Cheers, Allistair. >>> >>> >>> >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>From: Andreas Toom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>Sent: 09 May 2005 15:05 >>>>To: user@struts.apache.org >>>>Subject: Multiple tiles layouts for single application >>>> >>>> >>>>Hello, is there a way to switch tiles layout in an applaction >>>>depending >>>>on let's say request url. I have a struts-based application with a >>>>single purpose and I want to share this functionality with other >>>>php-based sites that my company have. >>>> >>>>So if a request comes in to the site I want different layouts, each >>>>matching the calling site, for example: >>>> >>>>http://myhost/myapp/ <- Original layout >>>>http://myhost/myapp/site1 <- Site1 layout >>>>http://myhost/myapp/site2 <- Site2 layout >>>> >>>>The reason I wan't this is because I don't want do duplicate >>>>any action >>>>mappings in my struts-config. The major problem is form validation, >>>>since the input is just a simple tile definitions the app has >>>>no way to >>>>determine which layout to use. 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