How To...
This section contains some step-by-step descriptions of how to carry out specific tasks using the Widget Framework. The first few examples are based on the following scenario:
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You have three publications that share a blueprint called
blueprint-main
. -
They all have an existing section called
Sports
, based on a template calledconfig.default.section.sports
. -
You want to add a new section under the
Sports
section calledTennis
. -
You want the
Tennis
section to have a slightly different layout to the otherSports
sections, so you need to create a new template for it. -
You want both publications to have the same layout except for the page header, which will be different in each publication, so you need to create an overlay for each publication that defines its header.
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Two of the publications change the layout of the Sports page for the football World Cup, so you need to create an overlay that can be shared by both of these publications and easily activated for the duration of the world cup.
In order to achieve these objectives you need to:
-
Create new
Tennis
sections (see Create a Section) in each publication. -
Create a template in
blueprint-main
that defines the layout for your new sections (see Create a Template). -
Edit the new template (see Edit a Template).
When you have carried out these tasks, add some content to your
Tennis
section and view the results in a browser. You
should see that the Tennis
section's layout is
different from that of other Sports
sections.