Index: openacs-4/packages/acs-templating/www/doc/guide/components.adp =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/acs-templating/www/doc/guide/components.adp,v diff -u -r1.2 -r1.3 --- openacs-4/packages/acs-templating/www/doc/guide/components.adp 27 Oct 2014 16:40:22 -0000 1.2 +++ openacs-4/packages/acs-templating/www/doc/guide/components.adp 7 Aug 2017 23:48:03 -0000 1.3 @@ -1,28 +1,33 @@ -{/doc/acs-templating {Templating}} {Templating System User Guide: Building Reusable Template +{/doc/acs-templating {ACS Templating}} {Templating System User Guide: Building Reusable Template Components} Templating System User Guide: Building Reusable Template Components - - -

Building Reusable Template Components

Templating System : Developer Guide : User Guide +

Building Reusable Template Components

+Templating System + : Developer Guide + : User Guide

Most page layouts can be separated into smaller components, many of which may appear in different contexts throughout a site. -Examples include:

A box or section of the page listing contextual links related to the contents of the page.
A list of comments on the contents of the page.
A search box, user poll, or other small embedded form.
Reports and other administrative pages, where the employee may wish to assemble multiple panels of information on a single page.
Many popular portal sites allow users to customize their home pages by choosing and arranging a set of small layout components within a table grid.

The templating system makes it easy to build reusable components for any of the above -scenarios. The basic process is to build a container template, -which delineates the skeletal layout of the page. Component -templates may then be placed in the container template with the -include tag. The container may pass arguments to the -components as needed for personalization or any other purpose.

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