creatinga Header in LiveSite

In LiveSite, I want to design a Header component,which shows a Welcome mesaage to the user looged in(eg. Welcome XYZ!). How to do this?

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tec_iwov

you need to create a component that is backed by a java External implemenation. See Docs for details

Basanta

Hi,

Please have a look at the solution here :

1)Navigate through a particular directory path(as per your requirement) and create a new component e.g header.component by choosing from the File Menu.

2) Then you need to create an xml record (DCR) within a particular directory path.That means under a particular folder structure and fill out the data inside the xml record and save it as header.xml .

3)Now go to the new.component,where you'll find three things,
a)appearance.xsl b)appearance.xml c)content.xml

4)In the content.xml file, write the directoryPath under ... under which you created the xml record.
i.e./Documents/Marketing/SalesSolutions/header.xml

5)Now you need to write the XSLT in the Appearance XSL to parse your xml record(header.xml).

6)Now you need to co-relate your xml record by choosing the button Set As Default Content, where you need to go for browse button and choose the xml record.

7)Save it and hit on the preview, you can see your header.component output.

TheYann

Basanta that won't make the component display a welcome message dynamically filled with the user information.
The best solution is to use an external java object!

However the most of the indications are correct, just forget about the DCR part Smiley Wink

AlexC

For Sitepub/Livesite 3.0+

The login component is a good starting point. When a user is logged in it will display the already logged in message. However the actual call to the login external (see the component) will put all you need into the XML.

So the easiest way to get that done is to create a new component. Use the external from login.component:


< External >
  < Object Scope="local">com.interwoven.livesite.external.runtime.Login< /Object>
  < Method>login< /Method>
< /External>

You do not need the controller code unless you want this component to redirect to a login page when use is not logged in.

When Login.login() executes it will add following to the XML model (you will see this in component edit preview):

Login/LoggedIn - when user is logged in
Login/NotLoggedIn - when user is not logged in
Login/AuthFailed - If login failed (this will be only there if NotLggedIn is) and count attribute is a number of times the authentication failed (bad password, etc)
Login/User - emit of the UserProfile with all pertinent information

Using the above XML data you can build the XSL of the component to do exactly what you need.