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Cotsec Menus/Directory
Menus
Cotsec Menus/Directory enables menus such as the one
on the left to be generated for a website. The menus
are template driven and hierarchical to any given depth.
The structure of the menus is determined by the directory
structure of the website itself. For example, if a directory
has two sub-directories A and B, then two menu items
would appear in the menu. The actual names that appear
in the menu are determined by a menu definition XML
file "menuitem.xml" that resides in the same
directory with the index.html file for the topic.
An example menuitem.xml file is:
<menuitem name="forms"
short-title="Cotsec Menus"
description=""
tooltip=""
designer-comment="comment visible only
in designer"
order="4"
/>
- Short-title is the visible title for the menu
- Description is the longer description
- Tooltip is for use within swing style menus
- Order is the order of the menu when displaying (higher
displays first)
If a website contains the following directories:
| root |
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/subdir |
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/undersub |
(order: 10) |
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/under2sub |
(order: 5) |
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/subdir2 |
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/undersubdir2 |
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/underunder |
if the short-title specified for each directory is
the same name as the directory (for simplicities sake
- this is not a requirement), then the menu structure
that would be created is:
root
subdir
under2sub
undersub
subdir2
undersubdir2
underunder
-- This assumes that the order that was specified for
under2sub was a lower number than the order specified
for undersub.
Clickable links would be created (using the default
style). The menu below has been inserted automatically
. As directories are moved or menu names change the
menus are updated in all locations where they are used.
Note well: All code between the insertion markers
will be removed and replaced with the directory menu.
The insertion markers themselves will be retained.
The templates for these menus are contained within
the templates directory under the COTSEC_HOME/cotsec/templates/menus
directory.
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