[opencms-dev] how to get 2 blocks from the WYSIWYG editor on one page

Fri May 3 01:00:49 CEST 2002

Hi Stephan.

Thanks for the response.  It's working for me now.  

Please forgive the length of this response, I wanted future folks who
searched on this topic to gain from my errors.

(I'm using OpenCMS 4.6.0 on linux with tomcat 4.0 and mysql 3.23.49a.)

I have a master template, /content/templates/master2col, which looks
like this:

------------master2col (template)----------------
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<XMLTEMPLATE> 

<ELEMENTDEF name="left">
<TEMPLATESELECTOR>left</TEMPLATESELECTOR>
</ELEMENTDEF>

<ELEMENTDEF name="right">
<TEMPLATESELECTOR>right</TEMPLATESELECTOR>
</ELEMENTDEF>

<ELEMENTDEF name="frametemplate">
<CLASS>com.opencms.template.CmsXmlTemplate</CLASS>
<TEMPLATE>/content/frametemplates/twocolframe</TEMPLATE> </ELEMENTDEF> 

<TEMPLATE> <ELEMENT name="frametemplate"/> </TEMPLATE>
</XMLTEMPLATE>
------------master2col (template)----------------

/content/templates/master2col is of resource type 'plain', not XML
template.

I have a frame templates called /content/frametemplates/twocolframe which
looks like this:

------------twocolframe----------------
<XMLTEMPLATE> <TEMPLATE>
<![CDATA[ 
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>]]><method name="getTitle"/><![CDATA[</TITLE> </HEAD>
<BODY> <TABLE border width="100%" height="100%">
<TR height="30%"> <TH colspan=2 width="100%" align="center"> The Head
section </TH> </TR> <TR height="70%"> <TD width="50%">
]]>
<ELEMENT name="left"/>
<![CDATA[
</TD> <TD width="50%"> ]]>
<ELEMENT name="right"/>
<![CDATA[ 
</TD> </TR>

</TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>]]>
</TEMPLATE>
</XMLTEMPLATE>
------------twocolframe----------------

I created another 'plain' file in /content/default_bodies called
master2col, which looks like this:

------------master2col (default_body)----------------
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<XMLTEMPLATE>
<TEMPLATE/>
<edittemplate/>
<template name="left">
<![CDATA[
]]>
</template>
<edittemplate name="left">
<![CDATA[
]]>
</edittemplate>
<template name="right"/>

<edittemplate name="right"/>
</XMLTEMPLATE>
------------master2col (default_body)----------------

which is what I copied from the previous message (with edits for the names
of the columns).

Now, when I go to an unpublished folder in my project, and create a new
page called test, I choose 'master2col' from the template menu and
'master2col' from the 'copy body from' menu.

When I edit the page, I can choose either right or left or default from the
'body' pulldown in the editor.  Apparently you don't need to hit the
'save and exit' button for each body.