[opencms-dev] CmsTemplateBean once again!

[T Reaves]

On Jul 26, 2005, at 2:15 AM, GV wrote:

> On Monday 25 July 2005 23:36, Timothy Reaves wrote:
>
>>> I'm really glad to see a reply to this topic! Thanks for that.
>>>
>>> I wouldn't really disagree with your comments but is any documented
>>> template
>>> around which captures news items (or articles!) placed as  
>>> independent
>>> files
>>> in a directory and displays them in a master page?
>>>
>>> I was trying to make use of the Article Management module but got  
>>> into
>>> problems with the current opencms version! I don't know if  
>>> Ulrich, the
>>> creator of this module, could comment on this?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> George
>>>
>>
>>      Well, I've looked at this feature in the GA of 6.0, and  
>> didn't have
>> any problem.  What issue are you having?
>>
>
> I don't know where to start with!!!
>
> Let's say you have a set of news articles (all of them constructed as
> independent web pages including, for example, a text and an image)  
> and you
> place them in a specific directory. Now, which opencms class should  
> I use in
> order to parse the content of this directory, display in a master  
> page an
> abstract of each news item and a link to the complete page?


     Well, I'd have to double check, but it's my understanding that  
that is not they way it works.  The built into templateone  
functionality is that you create the abstract as the XML entity, and  
you'd create a link in that abstract to a separately created page.