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How to migrate all contents into single page(A bit URGENT)

hithardhas — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:25:37 GMT

Hi, I splitted one web page as header,Leftnav,rightnav, body and footer(For templating work). For these all i created xsd and related xsl files. My requirement is to include all in one page to see the entire preview. For that i am trying to include all in body part. but i am not. Tell me the

Re: How to migrate all contents into single page(A bit URGENT)

pmonks — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:12:39 GMT

There are basically two ways to perform this kind of page compositing:

"Bake" the page at content submission time via a Freemarker or XSLT renditioning template. We provide APIs in both cases that allow you to pull in other content from the Web Project and include that in the output of the template (see http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/WCM_Forms_Rendering#Variables_and_Functions_exposed_to_Rendering_Engine for details).

"Fry" the page at request time by using delivery side techniques to composite the page from it's constituent assets. The exact technique depends on your delivery side technology, but includes things like server side includes (web servers), <jsp:include> (Java app servers), <!–#include file="…"–> (ASP.NET), include '…' (PHP), etc.

Note that with the first option it's not possible (in the general case) to track all of the dependencies between the source assets and the final composited page, so you will eventually find yourself having to manually regenerate pages when certain source assets change. For that reason I personally prefer the latter approach (delivery time page composition), since each page can have arbitrarily complex dependency graphs without anyone ever having to worry about stale content appearing in those pages.

Cheers,
Peter

Re: How to migrate all contents into single page(A bit URGENT)

vijay_alfresco — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:40:16 GMT

I think apache tiles would the best solution.

Re: How to migrate all contents into single page(A bit URGENT)

pmonks — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:56:40 GMT

Yep - Tiles is one example (amongst many!) of the "fry" model (which is the one I tend to favour, given the dependency management problems that can occur with the "bake" model).

Cheers,
Peter