Custom Fixed Layout SP - Need Help

Morning,

Currently running TS 6.7.2 SP2 with SitePublisher

We are trying to add a custom layout page with the same functionality as the fixed-layout so we can build multiple xml layout type that will appear in the layout field on the .page creation screen.

From my understanding if you create a custom layout in \local\config\lib\content_center\livesite_customer_src\web\WEB-INF\classes\com\interwoven\xsl\runtime\[custom-fixed-layout.page.xsl] and modify the \local\config\lib\content_center\livesite_customer_src\etc\conf\livesite_customer\pagetype-config.xml and add the following xml and then build the toolkit it should allow you to use the custom page type and choose a layout type.

<page-type id="custom-xhtml">
<name>Custom XHTML</name>
<output>
<doctype>
<document-root>html</document-root>
<doctype-public>-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN</doctype-public>
<doctype-system>http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd</doctype-system>
</doctype>
<method>html</method>
<content-type>text/html</content-type>
<omit-xml-declaration>true</omit-xml-declaration>
</output>
<allowed-layouts>
<layout refid="custom-fixed-layout"/>
</allowed-layouts>
</page-type>
</page-types>
<layouts>
<layout id="custom-fixed-layout">
<name>custom Layout</name>
<stylesheet>com/interwoven/xsl/runtime/custom-fixed-layout.page.xsl</stylesheet>
<class>com.interwoven.livesite.layout.impl.FixedLayout</class>
</layout>
</layouts>

It adds in the custom page type but the layout type is "Freestyle - custom layout" and once I create the page it will not allow me to add any template or components. The goal is to create a custom fixed layout that will allow the user to add fixed layout in the branch via WORKAREA/work/iw/config/fixed-layout folder. I would appreciate it if anyone has any idea or let me know if this is possible.

Thanks

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Rick Poulin

Deep in the bowels of the runtime code (on Layout.java, I forget which package exactly), there's an isFixedLayout() function which only returns true if your layout <name> is exactly equal to "fixed-layout". This is still the case in TS 7.2. Currently, the only way to get your own fixed layouts (in theory) is to copy com.interwoven.livesite.layout.impl.FixedLayout into your own package, change the isFixedLayout() function to return true (assuming the original definition is not final) and then hope that the implementation of FixedLayout doesn't change in the future. We've got an open feature request with IW to find a better solution to this. Still pending as of 2010/08/10.

Copperfrog

Thanks for your reply, I was afraid it would work only if the name equals fixed layout.

AXCHU

Any update or plan for the feature request from this post?? We have the similar need and have been waiting for the fix. Thx. - Alan

Rick Poulin

The ticket was opened via one of my clients, and I wasn't around to catch the final response.. but this is still the case as of v7.4, and is likely to remain.

AXCHU

Bummer. It is clearly a poor design impl. of the API and oversight of the product. I hope they catch onto this though. Thanks for sharing your update.

The ticket was opened via one of my clients, and I wasn't around to catch the final response.. but this is still the case as of v7.4, and is likely to remain.