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Previewing files in work area

alanhill

Hi,

We have templates to generate panels of code (asp typically) which are then included into a bigger page through another template (eg a right side 'call to action' or 'news items' - shared by many pages). Ideally we'd just want any css, javascript etc used by that panel to be included in the head section of the parent page.

This gives us problems however - when viewing the panel on it's own (eg after generation) the styling and code doesn't apply, meaning the panel does not look as it would when included in it's parent page.

We've used the 'preview' mode in the template/form to wrap a standard parent page around the panel when previewing, and this works fine.

I just wondered however if there was any way to intercept the request for the panel and inject this same html code when just viewing the generated panel. I wondered if there was something that could be done similar to the smart context editor that appears when you view generated pages normally.

I've looked through the proxy and remapping configuration but nothing there springs out as being any help.

We're using Teamsite 6.5 (latest SP etc) on Windows 2003.

Cheers

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ISCBorisB

Hi,

We have templates to generate panels of code (asp typically) which are then included into a bigger page through another template (eg a right side 'call to action' or 'news items' - shared by many pages). Ideally we'd just want any css, javascript etc used by that panel to be included in the head section of the parent page.

This gives us problems however - when viewing the panel on it's own (eg after generation) the styling and code doesn't apply, meaning the panel does not look as it would when included in it's parent page.

We've used the 'preview' mode in the template/form to wrap a standard parent page around the panel when previewing, and this works fine.

I just wondered however if there was any way to intercept the request for the panel and inject this same html code when just viewing the generated panel. I wondered if there was something that could be done similar to the smart context editor that appears when you view generated pages normally.

I've looked through the proxy and remapping configuration but nothing there springs out as being any help.

We're using Teamsite 6.5 (latest SP etc) on Windows 2003.

Cheers

I've used the following approach couple times before, perhaps it may help...

- Generate Rendition Files (Panels, Tiles and whatnot) separately, by writing Files directly (or use ostream
if that's what you like). Assign required MD to them, etc.

- Template proper(iwpt_output) spits out "fluff" html which only purpose in life is to redirect to the rendition
Wrapper, CGI or Servlet, whatever. (We actually made redirection URL configurable per Type but that's details)

There are couple complications with this idea but we can discuss it if you think it may be a promising approach in your case.

alanhill

Hi there, many thanks for the input. We've used something similar at times, mainly for xml files that don't render nicely to end (non technical) users. In those examples, the xml data is generated using o-stream, and the default output is an asp wrapper than allows editors to view the xm in a nice way.

This approach is OK but it does put reliance on the user remembering to submit the xml file to deplloy their changes, and not the wrapper asp preview page. They also need to remember to 'edit' the wrapper page and not attempt to edit the xml file.

As I say we've used it in limited cases, but I'd prefer not to use this more than necessary (and not for standard content panels and pages).

I guess I was looking for something that would implicitly handle the page that the user clicked on and wrap it automatically with a previewing method - but meant no change to the way the business handled the file (being able to edit and submit it directly without needing to worry about accompanying preview files).

ISCBorisB

I was looking for something that would implicitly handle the Page...

Have you considered a Proxy? If you can create CGI/Servlet "Viewers" you may then configure Proxy Server to reformat/redirect
a request to the appropriate Viewer passing Pane/Tile Path as a parameter

alanhill

Ah, good point - I'll look into that. I've done a fair but with remapping based on regex so will see if I can use something like that and a proxy to get the desired effect.

Cheers

Alan