Forum OpenACS Q&A: how to customize look and feel of etp?

1: how to customize look and feel of etp?

Posted by David Cotter on 09/03/03 04:41 PM

How do I customize the look and feel of an ETP instance. I want different etp instances to use different master templates for example.

I can create a subsite and specify a different master for that subsite and then mounted ETPs on that subsite will use the new master.

But is there a way to do it where I can mount an etp at the following URL:

/students/year1

and then create directory /web/domain/www/students/year1 and put a etp-master.adp in there and that will be used in favour of the one in /web/domain/packages/edit-this-page/www/

I have being experimenting with this but can't get it to work.

2: Re: how to customize look and feel of etp? (response to 1)

Posted by Dave Bauer on 09/03/03 04:54 PM

David,

Currectly the way to do that is to create a new ETP "application" and corresponding templates, and use that application for your new ETP instance.

3: Re: how to customize look and feel of etp? (response to 1)

Posted by David Cotter on 09/03/03 05:09 PM

Thanks Dave,

I'm not sure what you mean by "corresponding templates" do I somehow make a seperate copy of the templates.

4: Re: how to customize look and feel of etp? (response to 1)

Posted by Dave Bauer on 09/03/03 05:25 PM

You could copy the templates from an existing application and use those as a base to customize them. Each ETP application has an index template and a content template. You could create a different index and content template for each application that uses a different master template.

5: Re: how to customize look and feel of etp? (response to 1)

Posted by David Cotter on 09/03/03 06:01 PM

Oh you mean copy the application as in

cp -r edit-this-page/* etp2/

and create a whole new application. I will give this a try thanks.

6: Re: how to customize look and feel of etp? (response to 1)

Posted by Dave Bauer on 09/03/03 06:19 PM

No :)

Read the ETP documentation. And ETP application is a set of templates. Look in edit-this-page/templates and you will see article-index.adp article-content.adp etc.

Each index/content pair is an application. The applications are defined in etp-init.tcl.

If you define a new application "year1" you could apply the year1 application to the etp instance mounted at students/year1.

7: Re: how to customize look and feel of etp? (response to 1)

Posted by David Cotter on 09/03/03 06:49 PM

Thanks Dave,

I think I have what you're saying now.