[opencms-dev] Is this a bug or not?

[Bas van der Meijden]

Hi all,

I'm trying to build a navigation element. To do so I want to use some custom
properties that I added to my resources. I've been able to make the
navigation element, but when I look at the output of the template all calls
to the methods for getting the custom properties (eg getPropertyCurrent and
getPropertyParent) return empty strings. 

Am I doing something completely stupid or is this a (known) bug?

I've seen this in both OpenCMS 4.6.1 and 5.0 beta. I'm running OpenCMS on a
win2k server with IIS 5 and Tomcat 4.0.6, JDK 1.4.1 and MySQL 3.23.

Below you can find my navigation element and and its definition and usage in
my frametemplate.

Could someone please have a look at it? Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Bas van der Meijden
Pecoma Informatica BV
Amsterdam, The Netherlands


In the frametemplate I use and define the element nav with:
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<ELEMENT name="nav"/>

<ELEMENTDEF name="nav">
	<CLASS>com.opencms.defaults.CmsXmlNav</CLASS>
	<TEMPLATE>/content/elements/navigation</TEMPLATE>
</ELEMENTDEF>
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The file /content/elements/navigation looks like this:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>

<XMLTEMPLATE>
	<navstart>
		<![CDATA[
			<script language="JavaScript1.2"
src="script/coolmenus3.js"></script>
			<script language="JavaScript1.2"
src="script/menu_settings.js"></script>
			<script language="JavaScript1.2">
			<!--
		]]>
	</navstart>
	
	<naventry>
		<![CDATA[oCMenu.makeMenu(']]>
		<method name="getPropertyCurrent">Title</method>
		<![CDATA[',']]>
		<method name="getPropertyParent">1,Title</method>
		<![CDATA[',' ]]>
		<process>navtext</process>
		<![CDATA[',']]>
		<process>navlink</process>
		<![CDATA[','main',]]>
		<method name="getPropertyCurrent">NavPos</method>
		<![CDATA[)]]>
	</naventry>
	
	<navend>
		<![CDATA[
			//Leave these two lines! Making the styles and then
constructing the menu
			oCMenu.makeStyle(); oCMenu.construct()
			-->
			</script>
		]]>
	</navend>

	<TEMPLATE>
		<method name="getNavTree"/>
	</TEMPLATE>
</XMLTEMPLATE>
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