[opencms-dev] Some questions about OpenCms regarding a potential deployment

[Yves Glodt]

Hello,

thank you a lot for the information.
I have eventually managed to create a very simple template, and 
currently I struggle with the navigation.

regards!
Yves

On Monday 11 February 2008, Jordi Martí wrote:
> Hope this helps you to start:
>
> - Even after some hours of playing with opencms I still fail to
> understand how
> to create a template. Where and how to I have to create the jsp which
> will serve as a template, and how to I create and refer to the
> content I want to include with <cms:include element= "myElement" /> 
> (what do I have to call "myElement" to have it included by this tag?
> Does it have to be a "pattern page", or a "structured page"?
>
> >> You have to create a module. When you do it, you create templates
> >> for
>
> that module in /system/modules/..../templates folder; and you create
> a template with a .jsp. In that JSP, you can include the page you
> create with <cms:include element="body"/>, for example. A page has so
> many elements as you want (body, text1, text2, ....; for example).
> You can define different parts in a page, through the default_bodies
> folder of your module.
>
> Ahh I am so lost :-( )
>
> >> I think Lost is the best tv show ever... ;-))
>
> - If I have a link in a menu, how and where can I tell that this
> particular link should open the template and display the appropriate
> item in the content-area?
>
> You say that a free page has to open with the appropiate template
> through the "template" property. That template is the one who
> includes a part or another one throught its <cms:include...> tags.
>
> - I could not find any 3rd-party templates on the web... Are there
> sites which
> offer collections of templates for download?
>
> >> That's a good question.
>
> - For anoter project (which if this ones will be done with OpenCms I
> also want
> to do with it) I will need a guestbook. I could only find one from a
> company
>
> called metamesh but it seems to be for version 6.0 only. Is there any
> other?
>
> >> Another good question.
>
> - I could not find a book about OpenCms 7.0.Ishere any?
>
> >> Did you read the wiki?? That helped me a lot to start.
>
> - I read in the archives that someone had tried to run OpenCms with
> Firebird.
> Is there more information available on this? If possible we would
> like to use
> Firebird 2.1.
>
> >> No idea.
>
> Sorry for the long post... :-)
>
>
> best regards,
> Yves
>
>
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