[opencms-dev] Is it possible to include titles and links fromother pages into a page?

[M Butcher]

http://www.opencms.org/opencms/en/download/documentation.html

The "JSP Scriptlet Documentation" would probably be the most helpful for
you. In addition to the documentation itself, it may be helpful to look
at the code that generates the documentation. It's well documented and a
little more advanced than the examples in the docs themselves.

Matt

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 04:50, Matthew Evans wrote:
> Matt,
> 
> Thanks very much for this information.
> Whereabouts in the documentation can I read about the JSP script objects?
> I can't seem to find it in any of the modules.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> M@/ 
> 
> 
>  
> Matthew Evans
> SolidStateGroup
> tel. +44 (0) 20 77402133
> Mob. +44(0)7958 379562
> http://www.solidstategroup.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org]
> On Behalf Of M Butcher
> Sent: 29 August 2003 20:03
> To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
> 
> You will probably have to write a little bit of JSP Java to do this, but I
> think that all you'd have to do is get the navigation for those directories.
> 
> If you haven't already read the documentation on the JSP script objects
> (CmsJspActionElement, CmsNavElement, etc.) you will probably want to use
> that. Here's a script that prints all of the links inside a directory. I use
> it to create navigation bars (Note: change ROOT_NAV_CONTEXT to your
> dir):
> 
> <%@ page import="java.util.*, com.opencms.flex.jsp.*" %> <%
> /*
>  * Author: M Butcher (mbutcher at AT@grcomputing at DOT@net)
>  * License: GPL v.2 or higher (at your option)  */ CmsJspActionElement cms =
> new CmsJspActionElement(pageContext, request, response);
> 
> // This is where the menu should start building.
> String ROOT_NAV_CONTEXT = "/my_vfs_dir/";
> 
> String filename = cms.getRequestContext().getUri(); String foldername =
> com.opencms.file.CmsFile.getPath(filename);
> 
> ArrayList navItems =
> cms.getNavigation().getNavigationForFolder(ROOT_NAV_CONTEXT);
> Iterator i = navItems.iterator();
> 
> while (i.hasNext()) {
>     CmsJspNavElement ne = (CmsJspNavElement)i.next();
>     String neName = ne.getResourceName();
>     if(neName.equals(foldername)) {
>         out.println("<span class=\"main-menu-link-followed\">" +
> ne.getTitle() + "</span><br>");
>     } else {
>         out.println("<a class=\"main-menu-link\" href=\"" +
> cms.link(neName)+"\">");
>         out.println(ne.getTitle() + "</a><br>");
>     }
> }
> 
> /*
> // If you uncomment this section, it will also conditionally add a link //
> to the home page -- nice if you are doing a menu.
> if(!"/".equals(foldername)) {
>     out.println("<p class=\"main-menu-home\">");
>     out.println("<a class=\"main-menu-home-link\" href=\""+cms.link("/")
>       + "\">Home</a></p>");
> }
> */
> 
> %>
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Matt
> 
> On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 05:27, Matthew Evans wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm just starting a site with OpenCMS and I've been through all the 
> > jsp tutorials.
> > It seems like theres going to be a lot of JSP includes going on in my
> site.
> > 
> > I want to have a page that lists all the recent newsletters sent from 
> > my site.
> > Each newsletter is going to be stored in openCMS as an HTML page in a 
> > "newsletter" directory.
> > 
> > I then want a "newsletters" page to have a dynamically generated list 
> > of links to view all the previous newsletters held in the newsletter
> directory.
> > 
> > In other CMS's I've been able to do this with tags in the jsp like:
> > <cms:articles type="newsletters">
> > <cms:article asset="description"/>
> > </cms:articles>
> > 
> > I can't see a way of doing this easily in OpenCMS though.
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > M at .
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > Matthew Evans
> > SolidStateGroup
> > tel. +44 (0) 20 77402133
> > Mob. +44(0)7958 379562
> > http://www.solidstategroup.com
> > 
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