AW: [opencms-dev] Product evaluation -- reuse of content?

[Thomas Weckert]

Hi Mark, hi Ivan,

another sophisticated way to maintain articles is, to implement a
backoffice module for this task. Data content of backoffice modules is
saved in a kind of "channel" hierarchie, which is simply one large
generalized database table to store different content. You can then
attach one or more channels (with articles etc. pp.) to a page by
setting properties on your pages. If you use JSP pages as templates, you
would then have to add some Java code to your JSP templates to iterate
and display the content of the specified channel. This is just to give
you an idea how it could be done, but it's too much to tell it all in
one email.

Regards,
Thomas Weckert
Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts
http://www.alkacon.com 


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: owner-opencms-dev at www.opencms.org
[mailto:owner-opencms-dev at www.opencms.org] Im Auftrag von Ivan Biddles
Gesendet: Samstag, 25. Januar 2003 19:31
An: opencms-dev at www.opencms.org
Betreff: RE: [opencms-dev] Product evaluation -- reuse of content?


Hi Mark,

It is easy to create many control pages that point to the same content
item.

I'm not sure how familiar you are with OpenCms but each web page has two
portions - a control page which defines the "decorations" around a given
page; and a content piece which will appear "in the middle".

It seems that all you need to do is to create a content piece, C (for
example); two control pages (P1 and P2) and then two sets of templates
(T1 and T2).

Then P1 would be refer to T1 and C; and P2 would refer to T2 and C.

OpenCms even allows you to create multiple body content areas so that
you can get even more complicated.

Hope this helps,
                    Ivan 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-opencms-dev at www.opencms.org
[mailto:owner-opencms-dev at www.opencms.org] On Behalf Of Roedel, Mark
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 10:05
To: opencms-dev at www.opencms.org
Subject: [opencms-dev] Product evaluation -- reuse of content?


We're in the process of selecting a CMS package, and looking very
closely at OpenCMS.  One concern that's come up has to do with the reuse
of content.  (i.e. wanting the same article to appear with different
navigation elements, or even in a different template altogether, for
different audiences, without having to maintain separate copies of the
article itself.)

Our web designer, who's driving this project, has gotten the impression
that OpenCMS isn't capable of handling that scenario, and I haven't been
able so far to find the documentation that would allay her concerns.

Anyone able to provide either a pointer to the right pages in the
manual, or just a "Yeah, here's how we do that" (URL's would be
especially appreciated)?  Thanks much!


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