Forum OpenACS Q&A: Can ETP or modETP do this?

I'm looking at a site that's currently done in HTML, and wanting to bring it into OpenACS.  It has a fairly typical structure of a left-hand nav bar of links, with a right-hand content block.

From what I have seen, ETP pages have either links or content, not both.  And the placement of the links never seems to vary, which implies that I couldn't shove them over to the left via templating.

An additional wrinkle is that they want to take a set of pages, copy them, and let the admin for each copy turn off some of the pages (in their own copy only).  I figure on adding a "hide" feature for links to do this.  But to avoid having to hide the same link on multiple pages I need that left nav bar to be an include.  So what I'm essentially looking to do is have an ETP page included inside another ETP page.  I have a feeling I'm way beyond what ETP will do here...

I haven't seen much of modETP.  Would it be suitable for this, if ETP won't handle it?

Other suggestions on how to accomplish this within an OpenACS/dotLRN framework are welcome!

ETP can probably do this. For a prototype I did for my LUG, I stuck ETP contents into a little front-page widget thingie, outside of the usual ETP scope.

etp::get_content_items -packge_id ... can be used to get content items for any arbitrary package, so you ought to be able to in some form.

https://openacs.org/doc/edit-this-page/applications

and

http://cvs.openacs.org/cvs/*checkout*/openacs.org-dev/tcl/openacsorg-init.tcl

on defining applications for etp.

I used etp aplications to get this http://ww2.creditofundiario.org.br (it uses etp application and includes for lars-blogger categories and random-photo)