[opencms-dev] NewsHack.zip Help!!!!

Wed Oct 22 13:54:01 CEST 2003

Greetings,

On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 08:14 PM, Trevor Lee wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've installed the new News Module 2.1 and noticed the following:
>
> 1. When adding a new item the Release and Expire Dates are 
> "0000-00-00" for
> the item even though the dates entered when creating the item are 
> valid.
Try entering the dates in the following format YYYY/MM/DD

>
> 2. When editing a news item, the release and expire dates are always
> "0000-00-00" and you can't update this.
>
> 4. Is there a way to change the locale so that it's not US by default 
> when
> displaying the dates?
Sorry didn't put anything in for locale but the format for US is 
MM/DD/YYYY
>
> 5. I've copied news.jsp to the root directory of my site. I've also 
> created
> another jsp file called myNews.jsp in the root directory of my site 
> that
> contains the contents of jsptemplate_include.txt.
> Could you please explain the significance of index.html in the file?
>
The reference to index.html was to have a front page with editable 
content and have a place for new headlines shown. Its just an exqample 
and you can display your news any way or where you want.

> 6. Is there a javadoc for the new classes (Eg NewsContentDefinition) 
> that
> describes the methods and objects contained?
>
Haven't gotten to writting the docs for the classes. Most of it was 
written by Antonio. I will put in the docs on my methods shortly.

> 7. When I run myNews.jsp, I get the following error message....
> Root cause:
> org.apache.jasper.JasperException: FlexDispatcher: Dectected inclusion 
> loop
> for target /myProj/myNews.jsp
> Any ideas? I seem to get this alot....
> Is there a general fix or things to consider?
>
Have you looked at your xmltemplate?

Regards,

Rene

> Here's the contents of myNews.jsp:
> <%@ page session="false" import="java.util.*, com.opencms.flex.jsp.*"
> %><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <%@ taglib prefix="cms" uri="http://www.opencms.org/taglib/cms" %>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> "DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" >
> <head>
> <meta HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html; 
> CHARSET=<cms:property
> name="content-encoding" default="ISO-8859-1" />">
> </head>
> <body>
> <!-- Begin Page Content -->
> <div id="content">
> <cms:include element="body" />
> <%
>   java.util.HashMap includeParameters = new java.util.HashMap();
>
>   com.opencms.flex.jsp.CmsJspActionElement cms = new
> CmsJspActionElement(pageContext, request, response);
>   String filename = cms.getRequestContext().getUri();
> //  if (filename.equals("/news.html")) {
>       includeParameters.clear();
>       includeParameters.put("channel", "30");
>       out.print("<table width=\"100%\"
> border=\"0\"><tr><td><h2>News</h2></td><td></td></tr>");
>       out.print("<tr><td valign=\"top\">");
>       cms.include("/myProj/news.jsp",null,includeParameters);
>       out.print("</td><td valign=\"top\">");
>       out.print("</td></tr></table>");
> //  }
> %>
> </div>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
> Cheers
> Trevor
>
>
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