[opencms-dev] nm- please help me to get a simple but useful template to work - please look at my code and help me

Mon Aug 8 07:07:08 CEST 2005

Hi there dear friend

I am stuck an need your help. Its amazing how easy it is to get stuck with a
simple template.

I have read the Documentation from cover to cover I have studied the Java
API and am even an experienced Java Programmer
but that does not help me

The Problem I have is I cant make this simple template  work 

I wanted a simple template with :

*	breadcrumb
*	menu
*	body text(content)
*	optionally a footer

I wrote a simple one

There are no examples associated with the API so that is also not very
useful
So I could not figure how to make my breadcrumb

I can not get the template to deliver content (  I assume that is "body"
content)
I have not been able to make a Editable template 
I studied the API to see how to get a breadcrumb but with no example I am at
a loss

It seems that you can only use TemplateOne 

unless you buy a template from someone ( a wizard or great magician) 

or buy a book from somewhere which has a working example

So please help me 

With kind regards 
Nico 

          Here is my source code for what should be a very simple and
complete template 

          But three days later I still cant make it work

If only I could get it to work I would want to share it with the 
Open Cms Community to save others the blood, sweat and tears

_______________Code follows this line :  veryBasicTemplate1.jsp
_____________________________

<!--- veryBasicTemplate1.jsp --->

<%@ page import="java.util.*" %>
<%@ taglibprefix="cms" uri=" http://www.opencms.org/taglib/cms"%
<http://www.opencms.org/taglib/cms> >

<% 
 // java declarations go here :

 // Create a JSP action element for getting body content
 org.opencms.jsp.CmsJspActionElement cmsAct= new
org.opencms.jsp.CmsJspActionElement(pageContext, request, response); 

//Create a Navbuilder object for generating the Menu (at least this code is
working)
 org.opencms.jsp.CmsJspNavBuilder nav=new
org.opencms.jsp.CmsJspNavBuilder();
%>

<html>
 <head>
  <title>OpenCms -<cms:property name="Title" escapeHtml="true" /></title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <b>Template Version V.nm.002</b><br><br>
  <b>Title <cms:property name="Title" /></b><br><br>

  <!-- Simple breadcrumb starts here -->
  <%//=nav.getNavigationBreadCrumb() // I cant figure out how to call this
method %>
  <!-- Simple breadcrumb ends here --> 
  <br><br>       
  <!-- Navigation starts here This is working --> 
  The Menu goes here :<br>    
  <%            
           // Get a simple navigation of all pages / subfolders in the
current folder
           List list = cmsAct.getNavigation().getNavigationForFolder();
           Iterator i = list.iterator();

           while (i.hasNext()) {
               org.opencms.jsp.CmsJspNavElement ne =
(org.opencms.jsp.CmsJspNavElement)i.next();
               out.println("<br><a href=\"" +
cmsAct.link(ne.getResourceName()) + "\">");
               out.println(ne.getTitle() + "</a>");
           }    
           out.println("<br>");
  %>        
  <!-- Navigation ends here --> 
  <br><br>
  <!-- Main page body starts here -->Body goes here :<br> 
    <%
                                    // this is not working there is no
content on plage and it is not editable
               cmsAct.include(null,"body",true); //include a direct editable
page body
    %> 
  <!-- Main page body ends here --> 
  <br><br>
  Footer goes here   :<br></td>
                <!-- I could not figure out how to code a footer to be put
on the page-->
 </body>
</html>

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