webgen users - Oct 2008 - Just one page file with sidebar block

Just one of my page files has a block named ''sidebar''.

     --- name:sidebar

In the main template I write

     <webgen:block name="sidebar" />

When rendering, webgen complains that other files don''t have 
the block sidebar. Should I use an erb conditional in the 
template, and if yes, how do I write it?

Thanks,
Michael

Am Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:40:58 +0200
schrieb Michael Franzl <m.franzl at aon.at>:
> Just one of my page files has a block named ''sidebar''.
> 
>      --- name:sidebar
> 
> In the main template I write
> 
>      <webgen:block name="sidebar" />
> 
> When rendering, webgen complains that other files don''t have 
> the block sidebar. Should I use an erb conditional in the 
> template, and if yes, how do I write it?
Hi Michael,

yes, I do this with erb conditionals:

<% if
content_node.node_info[:page].blocks.has_key?(''sidebar'') %>
<webgen:block name="sidebar" />
<% end %>

However, if you have nested templates, this won''t work. I have to
think about a nice solution for this problem.

-- Thomas

> However, if you have nested templates, this won''t work. I have to
> think about a nice solution for this problem.
Yes, have nested templates.

I worked around like this in default.template:

<% if node[''identifier''] == "particluar-page"
%>
   <webgen:block name="sidebar" chain="default.template"
/>
<% end %>

But it would be much more beautiful if the sidebar content would be 
declared in the page it belongs to.

Michael

Am Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:00:17 +0200
schrieb Michael Franzl <franzl at corporatematters.at>:
> > However, if you have nested templates, this won''t work. I
have to
> > think about a nice solution for this problem.
> 
> Yes, have nested templates.
> 
> I worked around like this in default.template:
> 
> <% if node[''identifier''] ==
"particluar-page" %>
>    <webgen:block name="sidebar"
chain="default.template" />
> <% end %>
> 
> But it would be much more beautiful if the sidebar content would be 
> declared in the page it belongs to.
As I have said, I will look at the blocks content processor and see
what I can come up with. What I have thought of currently:

* new implementation should be backwards compatible
* option for failing silently if block is not found
* option for searching block through whole node chain, not only in the
next node in the chain

Any other ideas? Comments?

-- Thomas