[opencms-dev] Channels

[Urich, Chase]

That sounds like exactly what I needed ... thanks.

Chase Urich
LeTourneau University
Web Programmer
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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephan Hartmann [mailto:beffe at beffe.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 4:35 PM
To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
Subject: RE: [opencms-dev] Channels


Hi Chase,

channels are just ordinary folders but under another root folder than
the virtual file system. The root folder for the vfs is /default/vfs/
while the root folder for channels is /default/cos/. You can switch to
the other context by calling
cms.setContextToCos()
Then you can read channels just as normal folders and also their
properties. The channel's id is also a property "channelid". If you are
ready with channels don't forget to switch back to the vfs by calling
cms.setContextToVfs()

Bye,
Stephan



Am Mit, 2003-06-18 um 17.47 schrieb Urich, Chase:
> I successfully used some of the methods you listed to get the list of 
> channels and iterate across them. Now ... I'm lost as to how to 
> retrieve channel information (such as title) when the only identifying

> informaiton I have is the path of the channel. I do not have it's ID, 
> nor do I know hw to get it.
> 
> Is there any real documentation pertaining to channels anywhere? If I 
> knew where to look for some of this, I'd do it on my own. Aside from 
> searching the source code for the methods I've been given here 
> (CmsChannelContent), I have not had any luck on my own location 
> classes that pertain to channels.
> 
> Chase Urich
> LeTourneau University
> Web Programmer
> 
> "you can read all channels of a ContentDefinition with the method 
> getAllSubChannelsOfRootChannel and then iterate over these channels. 
> to get all channels of a cd you may use getChannels or 
> getSelectedChannels (this cuts off the root channel)." 
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