openinteract-help

[Openinteract-help] Conventions

[Stathy G. T. <sta...@ed...>]

Hello,

I have just started delving into open interact over the last day and had a 
few questions.

1) When installing the 'default' website is it ok to start modifying the 
templates?  I am assuming these templates and site sample is provided just 
for convenience sake?
2) Are the templates provided outside of the package directory part of the 
framework convention (base_main, simple_main, etc.)?

Thanks,



Stathy G. Touloumis

Lead Programmer, Benchmarks
Edison Schools, Inc.
Ph: 847.676.6663

Re: [Openinteract-help] Conventions

[Andreas N. <an...@kl...>]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 16:01, Stathy G. Touloumis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have just started delving into open interact over the last day and had a 
> few questions.
> 
> 1) When installing the 'default' website is it ok to start modifying the 
> templates?  I am assuming these templates and site sample is provided just 
> for convenience sake?
> 2) Are the templates provided outside of the package directory part of the 
> framework convention (base_main, simple_main, etc.)?
> 
Hi Stathy,

you are right about both issues. The only think you have to keep in mind
is, that when you are using templates this way, you need to adopt you
new template versions again after an update of e.g. base_main.

regards,

Andreas

Re: [Openinteract-help] Conventions

[Stathy G. T. <sta...@ed...>]

So is it possible to provide a package which 'overloads' the default 
framework?  Or is there an easy way to apply my changes to the framework 
without keeping track and manually copying?

Thanks for the response,

> > I have just started delving into open interact over the last day and had a
> > few questions.
> >
> > 1) When installing the 'default' website is it ok to start modifying the
> > templates?  I am assuming these templates and site sample is provided just
> > for convenience sake?
> > 2) Are the templates provided outside of the package directory part of the
> > framework convention (base_main, simple_main, etc.)?
> >
>Hi Stathy,
>
>you are right about both issues. The only think you have to keep in mind
>is, that when you are using templates this way, you need to adopt you
>new template versions again after an update of e.g. base_main.





Stathy G. Touloumis

Lead Programmer, Benchmarks
Edison Schools, Inc.
Ph: 847.676.6663

Re: [Openinteract-help] Conventions

[joseph s. <jo...@si...>]

> 
I'll try to answer these, but I may be wrong because I haven't looked at this in a month or two.
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:01:05AM -0500, Stathy G. Touloumis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have just started delving into open interact over the last day and had a 
> few questions.
> 
> 1) When installing the 'default' website is it ok to start modifying the 
> templates?  I am assuming these templates and site sample is provided just 
> for convenience sake?
Generally, yes.  The other route is to add another main_template and convince the software to use that when presenting the default for your website.  Perhaps, it depends on if you value portability over getting the site up and running.  The former would be hard to distribute, but less to manage.
> 2) Are the templates provided outside of the package directory part of the 
> framework convention (base_main, simple_main, etc.)?
yes, these are 'global templates'.
>