Monday 24 November 2008 2:20:28 am

Hi Arnaud,

Thank you for answering. I understood all that you said but my problem is still the following:

I want a 3 column homepage layout (using frontpage.tpl) but I would like to have the content of the first column (left) under the sidemenu.
I've already tried to keep the left menu in pagelayout.tpl and to use css stylesheets in order to style my homepage this way... but this is simply not possible to achieve...
I've read the Customization guide you suggested carefully and as you can see on the layout structure, the "sidemenu-position" div is located before the "main-position" div . As a result I can't "extract" the left column from the "main-position" div and display it under sidemenu.

I tried another solution: to add a toolbar position under the siedmenu and modify the folder class in order to be able to add content on the right.
Using this solution I can have my sidemenu with some content below, the main content and content on the right. The problem is: The content I can add using the toolbar is rather limited and cannot be different from one page to another. I would prefer to have the frontpage template applied to be able to add objects in both left and right columns

I think I'm in a deadlock...What would you recommend?

Thanks a lot

Friday 05 December 2008 4:28:57 pm

Hi,

You are right, it is not possible to achieve a left menu by changing the pagelayout.tpl as this template will then try to render the left menu before and above the billboard.

One other solution I implemented is to have 2 frontpage objects, one for the main page, and one for sub pages. (similar to article main page and article subpage). I then created a simple menu, (similar to the multipage article menu)

            {* Frontpage index *}
            {def $frontpage_subpages=fetch( content, list, hash( parent_node_id, $used_node.node_id,
                                                              sort_by, $used_node.sort_array ) )}
{if $frontpage_subpages|count}
        
            <div class="border-box">
            <div class="border-tl"><div class="border-tr"><div class="border-tc"></div></div></div>
            <div class="border-ml"><div class="border-mr"><div class="border-mc float-break">

        <h4><a href={$used_node.url_alias|ezurl}>
                 {if $used_node.object.data_map.index_title.has_content}
                    {attribute_view_gui attribute=$used_node.object.data_map.index_title}
                {else}
                    {$used_node.name|wash}
                {/if}
                </a></h4>

            <div class="sidemenu">
            <ul class="menu-list">
            {foreach $frontpage_subpages as $frontpage_subpage}
                {if eq( $node.node_id, $frontpage_subpage.node_id )}
                    <li><a class="selected" href={$frontpage_subpage.url_alias|ezurl}>
                    {if $frontpage_subpage.object.data_map.index_title.has_content}
                        {attribute_view_gui attribute=$frontpage_subpage.object.data_map.index_title}
                    {else}
                        {$frontpage_subpage.name|wash}
                    {/if}
                    </a></li>
                {else}
                    <li><a href={$frontpage_subpage.url_alias|ezurl}>
                    {if $frontpage_subpage.object.data_map.index_title.has_content}
                        {attribute_view_gui attribute=$frontpage_subpage.object.data_map.index_title}
                    {else}
                        {$frontpage_subpage.name|wash}
                    {/if}
                    </a></li>
                {/if}
            {/foreach}
            </ul>
            </div>
            </div></div></div>
            <div class="border-bl"><div class="border-br"><div class="border-bc"></div></div></div>
            </div>
       
{/if}

Then in the left column I call this menu accordingly.
Mainpage

<div class="columns-frontpage float-break">
        <div class="left-column-position">
            <div class="left-column">
                  <div id="sidemenu">
            <!-- Content: START -->
          {include uri='design:menu/left_frontpage.tpl' used_node=$node}
           <!-- Content: END -->
        	     </div>
            </div>
        </div>

Sub page

    <div class="columns-frontpage float-break">
        <div class="left-column-position">
            <div class="left-column">
                  <div id="sidemenu">
            <!-- Content: START -->
          {include uri='design:menu/left_frontpage.tpl' used_node=$node.parent}
           <!-- Content: END -->
        	     </div>
            </div>
        </div>

Hope this helps............

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