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tmarshall's avatar
tmarshall
Advisor
9 years ago

Community Structure - Common Pages - Localization

Hi,   I've been speaking with lithium gurus, and they suggest that I post my scenarios here for others to comment and get feedback about possible approaches.   We have two brands, purple which al...
  • VarunGrazitti's avatar
    VarunGrazitti
    9 years ago

    tmarshall - Add this code to the header and this should change the skin according the last page which user was on, i.e. if the user searched from green brand, the search page will have green skin and vice versa. Keep on adding the page names in line 2 and you can proceed with Scenario 1.

     

    <!-- The variable sticky_on_pages is contains all the pages where the "sticky skin" logic must apply -->

<#assign sticky_on_pages = [ "MyProfilePage", "SearchPage" ] />

<!-- If the current page has a name (should always be the case) and it is in the sticky_on_pages list, then apply the sticky skin logic. --> 
<#if (page.name)?has_content && sticky_on_pages?seq_contains(page.name)>

  <#if http.session.getAttribute("skin")??>
    <#assign skin_id = http.session.getAttribute("skin") />    
    <#if utils.logs.name.common_init.debugEnabled>
      ${utils.logs.name.common_init.debug("setting skin to ${skin_id}")}
    </#if>    
    ${skin.set(skin_id)}
  </#if>  
<#else>
   <#if coreNode.settings.name.get("skin.id")??>
    <#assign skin = coreNode.settings.name.get("skin.id")/>
    
    <#if utils.logs.name.common_init.debugEnabled>
      ${utils.logs.name.common_init.debug("storing skin ${skin}")}
    </#if>
          
    ${http.session.setAttribute("skin", skin)}
  </#if>  
</#if>

     

    I hope this helps.

tmarshall's avatar
tmarshall
Advisor

VarunGrazitti

 

Thank you very much for your reply. I'll try it out. A colleague asked me to validate this approach with Lithium to confirm if it is an official API that is supported and will not be something that Lithium may deprecate or change without any notice. KristinaV can you please validate this one ;)

tmarshall's avatar
tmarshall
Advisor
9 years ago

Hey VarunGrazitti

 

I tried out the code today, and put copy/paste it in the "Page Head Top Content or "Page Header Bottom Content" in the wrapper on both the green skin and the purple skin. I then applied the appropriate skin to the category (i.e. the purple skin to Purple Brand category, and the green skin to the Green Brand category). I did not change the skin in the parent category "French" - I left the green skin applied to the language.

 

Below is the code I used which is slightly updates with more pages, but when I click on profile when from purple categories it flips to the incorrect.

 

<!-- The variable sticky_on_pages is contains all the pages where the "sticky skin" logic must apply -->

<#assign sticky_on_pages = [ "MyProfilePage", "SearchPage", "ViewProfilePage", "FaqPage"] />

<!-- If the current page has a name (should always be the case) and it is in the sticky_on_pages list, then apply the sticky skin logic. --> 
<#if (page.name)?has_content && sticky_on_pages?seq_contains(page.name)>

  <#if http.session.getAttribute("skin")??>
    <#assign skin_id = http.session.getAttribute("skin") />    
    <#if utils.logs.name.common_init.debugEnabled>
      ${utils.logs.name.common_init.debug("setting skin to ${skin_id}")}
    </#if>    
    ${skin.set(skin_id)}
  </#if>  
<#else>
   <#if coreNode.settings.name.get("skin.id")??>
    <#assign skin = coreNode.settings.name.get("skin.id")/>
    
    <#if utils.logs.name.common_init.debugEnabled>
      ${utils.logs.name.common_init.debug("storing skin ${skin}")}
    </#if>
          
    ${http.session.setAttribute("skin", skin)}
  </#if>  
</#if>

As a test, I went to the "French" category and applied "none" as skin, then whatever 'default' skin is applied to "Top Level Community" will be applied. The sticky code does not appear to be working, but then again I might not be applying it correctly. Thanks again for your help, and appreciate if you can go into a bit more detail on if I missing something.

 

Thanks,

Tim 

  • tmarshall's avatar
    tmarshall
    Advisor
    9 years ago

    I put the code in "Page Initialization" under Advanced and it worked. Thanks for your help.

      • satya's avatar
        satya
        Expert
        8 years ago

        Hi VarunGrazitti

         

        That was a great solution you have provided. I have a similar requirement and I used the code snippet which you mentioned and placed in Page initialization. But I got an issue i.e., I have two categories category A and category B, I have opened two categories (category A first and then category B next) and then I opened the MyProfile page from category A I am able to see the category B Skin as it is loaded last. Is there any code change or workaround for this scenario.

         

        Thanks,

        Srujana Satya Datla.