Hide html whenon Home page

[paulcreedy]

Is there a way of stopping some html lines from being using unless it is on the home page?

eg in my layout I have some flash on the 'home/index' page. However I don't want this appearing on any of the other pages.

I guess I surround it in a block if, but how do I test whether the index page is being displayed or not?

[peblaco]

You could use the variable <actinic:variable name="IsBrochureHomePage" />

[paulcreedy]

I tried:
<actinic:block if="<actinic:variable name="IsBrochureHomePage" />">

But it complains of coding errors. Guess I've got the syntax wrong?

[Rich Brady]

Did you copy and paste Louise code above or did you type it in yourself?

Often a good idea to paste any copied code into notepad before putting it into actinic.

[paulcreedy]

I used the green button to surround the code in a block if, then copied the variable code in.

[NormanRouxel]

Here are two working examples.

Home Page Only:

<actinic:block if="%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsBrochureHomePage%22%20%2f%3e">
	This shows on the home page only
</actinic:block>

And the opposite:

<actinic:block if="%21%20%3cactinic%3avariable%20name%3d%22IsBrochureHomePage%22%20%2f%3e" >
	This shows on everything but the home page
</actinic:block>

[paulcreedy]

Thanks

When I click the green insert block button this gets inserted:
<actinic:block if="">

</actinic:block>

But I don't get any pop up into which to put the condition?

[NormanRouxel]

Switch to the basic view (click the [><] icon in the Layout Code pane).

Then click on the block if indicator which should display in green.

Or just copy / paste in my code from #6 above.

[paulcreedy]

Aaahhh!

I keep getting caught out by these little editor quirks

[McGern]

Hi,

I have the same code using IsBrochureHomePage and it works fine, but for whatever reason Actinic throws up an error. Is I publish the error goes away until I reopen Actinic again.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[McGern]

Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the slow response, I was lucky and didn't have to work with actinic for 6 months.

That seems to stop the error, but I am looking someway to check whether the current page is the *not* the homepage and insert an item. As I am writing this my head is telling that I am missing something obvious, but I am not able to see though the cotton wool at the moment.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[Duncan Rounding]

Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the slow response, I was lucky and didn't have to work with actinic for 6 months.

That seems to stop the error, but I am looking someway to check whether the current page is the *not* the homepage and insert an item. As I am writing this my head is telling that I am missing something obvious, but I am not able to see though the cotton wool at the moment.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Did you see post 6 above?

[McGern]

Thanks for the reply.

In my previous post (point 11) I have tried using IsBrochureHomePage, but this causing me errors (presumably on the non-brochure pages?). My template is being used site wide. If I use the condition PageType == 'Brochure' then it won't work on non-brochure pages.

My issue is that this actually works, but actinic is throwing errors, which is causing problems when I try to export the design to the busines version of actinic.

Just looking for ideas why the error is thrown in the first place as I come from a web dev background using structured, transparent CMS and ecommerce solutions and it is quite difficult to get my head using actinic.

Thanks.