Using Ajax to Pull in .page file

TS 7.2.1 on Solaris 10

I was just curious to see if anyone has had any luck using Ajax to pull in a .page file successfully. I've played with the OOTB ajax component some and tried, but that actually dumps the full contents of the page onto your page, so you don't get the rendered page, but the full code dump of the .page file. If we generate the HTML using the SitePublisher menu item and include that we're fine, but were hoping to avoid having to perform that step every time the page may be updated. Is anyone out there including .page files in this way? Or is looking more at a SSI a better approach. I appreciate your opinions.

Thanks!!!

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MSelvan

Are you populating any dropdowns in a page like Country->State->City?
Or
Trying to add full .page in a page thru ajax call?

interDev

TS 7.2.1 on Solaris 10

I was just curious to see if anyone has had any luck using Ajax to pull in a .page file successfully. I've played with the OOTB ajax component some and tried, but that actually dumps the full contents of the page onto your page, so you don't get the rendered page, but the full code dump of the .page file. If we generate the HTML using the SitePublisher menu item and include that we're fine, but were hoping to avoid having to perform that step every time the page may be updated. Is anyone out there including .page files in this way? Or is looking more at a SSI a better approach. I appreciate your opinions.

Thanks!!!

Why do you need to add page file in another page file? What problem are you trying to solve by including .page file in another page?

Also are you using LSDS or generating HTMLs using Sitepublisher Menu?

dlsoderberg

We're doing this due to a caching issue on the site. With everything included in the pages, if there is a change to the header/footer, we have to flush the cache for the entire site. This way, the header and footer would be separate pages and only the single page needs to be refreshed versus everything.

Yes, we're trying to add the full .page file into another .page file...no drop-down populations or anything.

We're using LSDS.

interDev

We're doing this due to a caching issue on the site. With everything included in the pages, if there is a change to the header/footer, we have to flush the cache for the entire site. This way, the header and footer would be separate pages and only the single page needs to be refreshed versus everything.

Yes, we're trying to add the full .page file into another .page file...no drop-down populations or anything.

We're using LSDS.

I dont think you can use AJAX to include .page file (not 100% Certain though !). My thought to overcome your problem:

if you are using AJAX to include Header/Footer, it means every time a request is sent to the server for a page, a separate AJAX call is also sent to serve the Header/Footer content (i dont think AJAX content is be cached by server. If it does, calling .page vs .html through AJAX will not make any difference and cache for all the pages will have to be invalidated anyways). So instead of using AJAX why dont you set Cache Time property of 'Navigation/Footer' components to 'Never'. That ways these components will never be cached and whenever a page will be served, a separate request for serving these components will always go to the server.

HTH