[Typo3] Inherited/Overridable Content?

[wim.cruysberghs at telenet.be]

Hi charles,

You can also use the Staff Organisation (jp_staff) plugin for contact details. Then use the BOX option. For each page you can set the contactperson in the pageheader. 

Greetings, 

Wim 





 


>----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
>Van
: Tyler Kraft [mailto:headhunterxiii at yahoo.ca]
>Verzonden
: donderdag
, april
 28, 2005 03:20 PM
>Aan
: typo3-english at lists.netfielders.de
>Onderwerp
: Re: [Typo3] Inherited/Overridable Content?
>
>on a template level:
>
>temp.rightcolumn.10 < styles.content.getRight
>temp.rightcolumn.10.stdWrap.ifEmpty = <P> default text here</p>
>
>hth
>tyler
>
>
>Charles Rector wrote:
>> Is there an easy way to inherit content elements in the same way 
>> templates are inherited, so that they can be shared for all sub-pages, 
>> but also overriden when needed?
>> 
>> I have some contact information in the right column which I want to use 
>> for all sub-pages at a specific starting point. However, I also want to 
>> be able to quickly override this contact information in specialized 
>> cases where the contact information is different.
>> 
>> I can sort of achieve this by using the "HTML/CSS styling" extension and 
>> making these pages all use shared content, but doing so is a little more 
>> involved than I'd like. I have to go to the Constants Editor at the 
>> starting point, modify the shared content pid to point to the pid of my 
>> page with the shared right column content, and then for each 
>> special-case page I have to do the same thing, but set the starting 
>> point pid to 9999 so that it's effectively disabled. At that point I can 
>> just enter the special case contact information as a normal right column 
>> content element.
>> 
>> This works because my setup is something like so in my template HTML:
>> 
>>     <div id="rightcontentshared">
>>         ...
>>     </div>
>>     <div id="rightcolumn">
>>         ...
>>     </div>
>> 
>> When the shared content is disabled, the page-specific right column 
>> content shows up where the shared right column content would've been 
>> since that element becomes empty.
>> 
>> This all seems rather kludgy to me, however.
>> 
>> Putting the contact information in the template itself is not an option, 
>> because I still want the contact information to be quickly and easily 
>> modifiable by TYPO3 users.
>> 
>> Also, using the shared content in this way makes it to where any other 
>> shared elements I define in the shared content page for the left column, 
>> body, etc. are also disabled, and not just the right column.
>> 
>> Has anyone else faced this sort of complication? And if so, what was 
>> your solution?
>> 
>> Any ideas appreciated!
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