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| Mimi Zuraidah 2006-05-17, 7:15 am |
| How do you know if a webpage is using CMS or not? In my understanding, the
purpose of CMS, is for end user can easily create the contents hence the
contents are dynamic. But the left hand side and the right handside is
static.
Is it possible, if it was made that the right hand side to be dynamic as
well. Here is the scenario:
----------------------------------------------------
BANNER
-----------------------------------------------------
| |
| |
LHS | | RHS
column | | column
| |
| CONTENT |Useful Link
| |. Link1
..Dept 1 | |. Link2
..Dept 2 | |
| |
| |
| |
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When user click on Dept 1,
-there will still be Dept 1 and 2 at the LHS.
- Link 1 and Link2 will appear in the Useful Link at the RHS.
When user click on Dept 2,
- Dept1 and Dept2 still apears at the LHS
-For the Useful link, it shows Link3 and Link4 (not the sme as when user
click on Dept1; as shown below.
----------------------------------------------------
BANNER
-----------------------------------------------------
| |
| |
LHS | | RHS
column | | column
| |
| CONTENT |Useful Link
| |. Link3
..Dept 1 | |. Link4
..Dept 2 | |
| |
| |
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Kindly advise.
Many Thanks in advance.
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| Stefan [MSFT] 2006-05-17, 7:15 am |
| Hi Mimi,
this is more an ASP.NET question than a MCMS question.
Anyway: the answer is yes. In ASP.NET you are able to keep any part of a
page dynamic.
In this specific situation I would suggest to add some code to the template
which fills the right hand side dynamically depending on the context.
The content added could either be retrieved from the MCMS repository (e.g. a
different set of postings) or from an external datasource.
Cheers,
Stefan
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"Mimi Zuraidah" <aerwynah@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:dc5b9a7c33144e998027e4e1e4533bf5@ur
eader.com...
> How do you know if a webpage is using CMS or not? In my understanding, the
> purpose of CMS, is for end user can easily create the contents hence the
> contents are dynamic. But the left hand side and the right handside is
> static.
>
> Is it possible, if it was made that the right hand side to be dynamic as
> well. Here is the scenario:
> ----------------------------------------------------
> BANNER
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> | |
> | |
> LHS | | RHS
> column | | column
> | |
> | CONTENT |Useful Link
> | |. Link1
> .Dept 1 | |. Link2
> .Dept 2 | |
> | |
> | |
> | |
> ---------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> When user click on Dept 1,
> -there will still be Dept 1 and 2 at the LHS.
> - Link 1 and Link2 will appear in the Useful Link at the RHS.
>
> When user click on Dept 2,
> - Dept1 and Dept2 still apears at the LHS
> -For the Useful link, it shows Link3 and Link4 (not the sme as when user
> click on Dept1; as shown below.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> BANNER
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> | |
> | |
> LHS | | RHS
> column | | column
> | |
> | CONTENT |Useful Link
> | |. Link3
> .Dept 1 | |. Link4
> .Dept 2 | |
> | |
> | |
> | |
> ---------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> Kindly advise.
>
> Many Thanks in advance.
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| Mimi Zuraidah 2006-05-19, 1:16 pm |
| Hi Stefan,
Thanks for the previous answer.. However, i have another question.
At this current moment, both LHS and RHS is static, and i was wondering if i
can cover the RHS. I mean for MCMS subchannels, if i do not want it to
appear when published, i can just go to Site Manager, and set it to hide
when published. But for this RHS, even though i hide it when published, i
can still see it.
For a clearer picture (i hope):
I want the RHS not to appear anymore. Well,if only Useful Link and Service
does not appear anymore when published, i would be glad already.
Note that, FAQ, Search and Services looks like a box of two columns, 1- dark
grey, 2- light grey
_____
|__1___|
|__2___|
when i go to Site Manager, and Hide when published the Services (1 & 2), it
will still be there..even if i tried to remove the name, it still does not
want to appear blank. And if i hide the Useful Link, it disappears (at first
sight), leaving a small patch of box (1/4 size of the rest of the box, eg
FAQ). ( i have no idea how to remove that). At 2nd sight, the services does
not actually disappear , but instead, it jumped to the bottom of LHS.
Please help,
Thank You
Best Regards,
Mimi
---------------------------------------------------
BANNER
---------------------------------------------------
LHS | |FAQ
Column | |Search[]
| |
| |Useful Link
| |. Link 1
| |. Link2
| |
| CONTENT |Service 1
| |.
| |.
| |.
| |Service 2
| |.
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| Stefan [MSFT] 2006-05-19, 1:16 pm |
| Hi Mimil,
I would suggest to set a custom property on the channel rather than using
the hide when published option.
In your navigation control you need to check this custom property when the
decision needs to be done whether to hide or to show this content.
With other words: you need to modify the logic of your navigation controls
in order to show and hide this dynamically.
Cheers,
Stefan
--
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
New to MCMS?
Check out this book: Building Websites Using MCMS: http://tinyurl.com/6zj44
Check out the new book as well: Advanced MCMS development:
http://tinyurl.com/8ugwj
----------------------
"Mimi Zuraidah" <aerwynah@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:8989577067914c9389de9abb46de1e2c@ur
eader.com...
> Hi Stefan,
>
> Thanks for the previous answer.. However, i have another question.
>
> At this current moment, both LHS and RHS is static, and i was wondering if
> i
> can cover the RHS. I mean for MCMS subchannels, if i do not want it to
> appear when published, i can just go to Site Manager, and set it to hide
> when published. But for this RHS, even though i hide it when published, i
> can still see it.
>
> For a clearer picture (i hope):
>
> I want the RHS not to appear anymore. Well,if only Useful Link and Service
> does not appear anymore when published, i would be glad already.
>
> Note that, FAQ, Search and Services looks like a box of two columns, 1-
> dark
> grey, 2- light grey
> _____
> |__1___|
> |__2___|
>
> when i go to Site Manager, and Hide when published the Services (1 & 2),
> it
> will still be there..even if i tried to remove the name, it still does not
> want to appear blank. And if i hide the Useful Link, it disappears (at
> first
> sight), leaving a small patch of box (1/4 size of the rest of the box, eg
> FAQ). ( i have no idea how to remove that). At 2nd sight, the services
> does
> not actually disappear , but instead, it jumped to the bottom of LHS.
>
> Please help,
>
> Thank You
>
> Best Regards,
> Mimi
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> BANNER
> ---------------------------------------------------
> LHS | |FAQ
> Column | |Search[]
> | |
> | |Useful Link
> | |. Link 1
> | |. Link2
> | |
> | CONTENT |Service 1
> | |.
> | |.
> | |.
> | |Service 2
> | |.
> | |
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