Friday 25 April 2008 3:17:44 am
Hello, were building a new site and are having some problems with the eZ Flow Global Layout Zones. More specifically we have two problems; 1) We have multisite installation so that we have separate siteaccess for each site as instructed, this works just fine and we have no problem in there. We have our own design that we have done and are using override.ini.append.php under each siteaccess (plan to move it under design/settings/override.ini.append.php) to specify our own block items that we have created. Our content structure is as follows:
Content
- Site 1 (frontpage)
- Sub item 1 (frontpage)
- Sub folder 1 (folder)
- Article 1 (article)
- Article 2 (article)
- Sub folder 2 (folder)
- Sub folder 3 (folder)
- Sub item 2 (frontpage)
- Sub folder 2 (folder)
- Article 4 (article)
- Site 2 (frontpage)
What we have now working is that we have defined our own zone layout (3 column type) and are able to select and use it when we have frontpage type page and it's loading it and working properly. What we now want is to have multiple global zone's so that when one browses under sub folder 1 and selects an article 1, we use global zone 1 and display a number of block items and the content of article 1 in the center. Then when the user goes to sub folder 2 and chooses to view article 4, we want to display a different global zone with different block elements. This would give us the ability to have a main page and each sub page to have separate block configuration and then have a global layout under each sub section to be separate depending on where the user is currently in the content tree. How to accomplish this is still a bit hazy and we would love to have some input. Problem 2) This is currently our main problem, as i stated previously we have our own design that we have placed under extension/ezflow/design/nitro/ folder, we first tried to have the design under design/ folder but we couldn't get the zones to load so now we placed it under ezflow extension and it's working nicely. In siteaccess/site1/site.ini.append.php we have:
[DesignSettings]
SiteDesign=nitro
AdditionalSiteDesignList[]=base
AdditionalSiteDesignList[]=standard
And it loads up nicely, the only problem we have is that we are not able to load any kind of global zone layout template. The 3zonelayout_nitro.tpl we have configured is working just fine on the frontpage type of pages but when you go under subsections it doesn't load up the globalzone layout. We've wiggled with the settings as much as possible but are unsure on why this might happen, when we revert the site.ini.append.php to a state of:
[DesignSettings]
SiteDesign=ezflow
AdditionalSiteDesignList[]=ezwebin
AdditionalSiteDesignList[]=base
AdditionalSiteDesignList[]=standard
It does load up the globalzonelayout nicely so were doing something wrong in our template or settings but we are unsure what. Any kind of help would be appreciated on either of the problems we face now. - Santeri Lindgren
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