Banner help - this feels like it should be really easy..

[Fowley]

..but I'm loosing the battle.

I'm into my 3rd day with Actinic (so apologies if I'm being thick).

My current problem..
I'm working on a deperatment store, each department is a section.

I would like a different banner to show dependant on which section you are viewing.

I couldn't really find anything so I placed this inside the 'banner div' (I'm using my own site design rather than a template):

<img alt="<actinic:variable name="SectionName" encoding="strip"/>" src="<actinic:variable Name="SectionImageFileName"/>" border="0" />

Now this sort of works, it displays a different image when you visit a new section. Exactly what I wanted. That's the good news..

..The bad news is:
a: this method gives me 52 coding errors .. (the 'code won't work there' error)
b: I also have about 4 'pages' within the site and of course nothing displays in the banner area when visiting a page rather than a section.

So my question is: how do I get a different banner to display for each section and how do I get a different, generic or random(anything really) banner to display when visiting a page. All without causing any coding errors.

Thanks for any help you can give.

PS - I'm using V9

[NormanRouxel]

The PageType variable will help here. It contains "Section" for Section Pages and something else on other pages.

So you will need two blockIf's (pseudo code below) - see Starter Guide for help on proper code.

1) if (PageType == "Section") use Section Image

2) if (PageType != "Section") use a default image

[Fowley]

thankyou

..that's brilliant, it works, thankyou.

This is the code I ended up with and it seems to work with no errors.

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%3d%3d%20%22Section%22" >
<img src ="<actinic:variable name="SectionImageFileName" />" border="0" />
</actinic:block>
<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22PageType%22%20%2f%3e%20%21%3d%22Section%22" >
	<img src="defaultbanner_Image.jpg"/>
</actinic:block>