Morning all and a Happy New Year to you (can we still say that?).
I have a bit of a challenge at the moment which I wonder if someone might be able to help with. I don't have a URL I'm afraid as this is just something I'm currently chewing on, trying to find out if it's even possible at the moment. Anyway, here's the situation:
The issue
There are one or two pages that I'd really rather not include within the Actinic infrastructure, specifically: custom site error pages (e.g. error 404 etc) and form pages (e.g. enquiry, tell a friend). The latter will use PHP and Smarty (it would just be the Smarty template HTML within Actinic if I were forced to do it as a 'Brochure Page' obviously).
The reason
I don't want to include these within Actinic because I don't want the customer to have access to them (imagine the horrors if they deleted the error 404 page!). It's also not terribly good practice to have template files (i.e. Smarty templates) in a public directory (even though they can of course be blocked in a robots file).
The question
Is there a way of getting the navigation generated by actinic (for brochure pages / shop departments etc) on to these pages outside of Actinic?
I suspect that there isn't and I did search the forums quite a bit last night, but I wonder if my search term phrasing is letting me down - it's difficult to know what to search for.
Possible solutions (not good) and further questions
Possible solution 1
The one thing that I did consider doing was creating a brochure page in Actinic that contained nothing but the navigation menus. I could then potentially bring this into my pages outside Actinic as a server side include or similar. The brochure page would look a bit messy in the Content Tree, however, so could it be hidden in a site deployment from Actinic Designer to Actinic Business / Catalog?
Possible solution 2
If it's easy enough to hide sections of the Content Tree in a site deployment, I could put the pages mentioned through Actinic as brochure pages. I would, however, still need to have the generated pages appearing somewhere other than acatalog on the website (e.g. Smarty templates are held above the public area of the site and error pages are in a directory called 'error' - this is standard). I fear this idea may be beset with permissions problems etc and won't have a hope of working, but would greatly appreciate comments.
I think that's about it, if anyone has an ideas on this one I'd be really greatful.
Many thanks in advance.
Angi
I have a bit of a challenge at the moment which I wonder if someone might be able to help with. I don't have a URL I'm afraid as this is just something I'm currently chewing on, trying to find out if it's even possible at the moment. Anyway, here's the situation:
The issue
There are one or two pages that I'd really rather not include within the Actinic infrastructure, specifically: custom site error pages (e.g. error 404 etc) and form pages (e.g. enquiry, tell a friend). The latter will use PHP and Smarty (it would just be the Smarty template HTML within Actinic if I were forced to do it as a 'Brochure Page' obviously).
The reason
I don't want to include these within Actinic because I don't want the customer to have access to them (imagine the horrors if they deleted the error 404 page!). It's also not terribly good practice to have template files (i.e. Smarty templates) in a public directory (even though they can of course be blocked in a robots file).
The question
Is there a way of getting the navigation generated by actinic (for brochure pages / shop departments etc) on to these pages outside of Actinic?
I suspect that there isn't and I did search the forums quite a bit last night, but I wonder if my search term phrasing is letting me down - it's difficult to know what to search for.
Possible solutions (not good) and further questions
Possible solution 1
The one thing that I did consider doing was creating a brochure page in Actinic that contained nothing but the navigation menus. I could then potentially bring this into my pages outside Actinic as a server side include or similar. The brochure page would look a bit messy in the Content Tree, however, so could it be hidden in a site deployment from Actinic Designer to Actinic Business / Catalog?
Possible solution 2
If it's easy enough to hide sections of the Content Tree in a site deployment, I could put the pages mentioned through Actinic as brochure pages. I would, however, still need to have the generated pages appearing somewhere other than acatalog on the website (e.g. Smarty templates are held above the public area of the site and error pages are in a directory called 'error' - this is standard). I fear this idea may be beset with permissions problems etc and won't have a hope of working, but would greatly appreciate comments.
I think that's about it, if anyone has an ideas on this one I'd be really greatful.
Many thanks in advance.
Angi
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