Possible to add 2 definable content areas on a page?
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:34 pm
Hi,
Been using CMSMS for a few months now with pleasure, this is the first time I've got to a point where I'm not sure of the best way to proceed.
I have a page layout that requires 2 changeable content areas- the first (main) one is the content for that page (an overview of a product), for which I'm using the usual page/ content editing. This is the product detail page.
What I'm not sure about is the best way to add a second area in the margin of the page, this is common to the product range rather than a specific product. My first thought was to use a Global Content Block for each product range, then I realised that if I add this into the template, it will be there across the whole site, which isn't what's needed.
The only way I can think of doing this is to have an identical template for each product range, the only difference being the tag for the overview block for that category. What's not so good about that tho, is that there's suddenly quite a few templates to keep up to date when something needs to be changed on the main layout.
Does anyone have any suggestions for the neatest way to achieve what I need. I have the suspicion that I'm missing something obvious here.
I.E. Is there a way to add a variable to a Global Content Block that can check to see which product range the page is a child of and pull in content specific for that?
(I'm using CMSMS 0.12 "Fiji")
Many TIA
C*
Been using CMSMS for a few months now with pleasure, this is the first time I've got to a point where I'm not sure of the best way to proceed.
I have a page layout that requires 2 changeable content areas- the first (main) one is the content for that page (an overview of a product), for which I'm using the usual page/ content editing. This is the product detail page.
What I'm not sure about is the best way to add a second area in the margin of the page, this is common to the product range rather than a specific product. My first thought was to use a Global Content Block for each product range, then I realised that if I add this into the template, it will be there across the whole site, which isn't what's needed.
The only way I can think of doing this is to have an identical template for each product range, the only difference being the tag for the overview block for that category. What's not so good about that tho, is that there's suddenly quite a few templates to keep up to date when something needs to be changed on the main layout.
Does anyone have any suggestions for the neatest way to achieve what I need. I have the suspicion that I'm missing something obvious here.
I.E. Is there a way to add a variable to a Global Content Block that can check to see which product range the page is a child of and pull in content specific for that?
(I'm using CMSMS 0.12 "Fiji")
Many TIA
C*
Thanks very much.