Hi!
Is there any way to get the layout mode of the page in WPS 5.1?
I don't mean in the theme but in the portlet. I would like to change the lay
out if the portlet is side-by-side with another portlet or if the portlet is
 under another portlet.

As you know there are different strategies when placing portlets in a page. 
One of the is "single page" and another is two columns. Is there a way to - 
from a portlet (IBM) - get the layout mode of the page that is invoking the 
portlet?

Any clues? It feels like kind of off-pist!

Thanks!
Karin

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Karin,

There is a way to get the layout mode of a portal page. I once did some test
ing with the code below which gives you the ContentNode of the portal:

InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
ContentModelHome cmHome =
(ContentModelHome)ctx.lookup("portal:service/model/ContentModel");
ContentModelProvider cmProvider = cmHome.getContentModelProvicer();
ContentModel cModel = cmProvider. getContentModel((ServletRequest)request,
 (S
erlvetResponse)response);
ContentNode root = (ContentNode)cModel.getRoot();

From the root you can iterate through the children and check if the node is:
- a ContentNode
- a Container
- a Control

You should be able to get the layout of the page from either the Container o
r the Control (not certain which one it was...)

Have fun!
Dennis

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Thanks Dennis!
I also found this content model and I'm trying to use the Layout Model for t
he page. Hopefully it will work. Or I'll add some configuration to my portle
t.
If I use the SPI it will require 5.1.0.1 and I'm not sure if I should go dow
n that road just yet.

Here is a link to the Info Center for the SPI Model:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoc...n_modelxmp.html

Regards
Karin

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Karin,

Be also aware of the fact that I found it to be rather slow...This could be 
because I started from the portal root, but keep it in mind.

If you do have a piece of code which only takes care of the current page, I 
am very interested...:-)...

Thanks,
Dennis

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