[Xerte] Limitations in page templates

[Julian Tenney]

Good question.

 

Firstly, you have all the source code from the templates, so you can
modify any pages to do what you like, or create new pages based on them,
or entirely new ones of your own devising. Each page type needs to have
it's own slot in the .xwd, defining the wizard for that page. Take a
look at the .xwd file in the project, and read through the manual on
developing templates.

 

Secondly, if page template does most of what you want, you can
supplement the pages it produces with custom pages developed in either
Xerte or Flash. It is our contention that the pages in Page Templates
cover an awful lot of ground - they are quick and easy to make. There
will be times when you want a page that is bespoke / custom - in which
case create that page in Xerte, save it as a model, and use the Xerte
page type to include it in the project. You can create a custom
interface if you don't want ours for whatever reason.

 

Finally, you can create your own templates to do whatever you like from
scratch.

 

If you want to do it the other way around, and create projects that are
mostly raw Xerte with a few pages from the templates, then you will need
to use the code in the template models as a guide, and probably create
your own bank of static models to use at your leisure later.

 

Using Xerte Online Toolkits on our server for most of the content
development, with a number of customised / bespoke page types work well
for us for most projects. Xerte Online Toolkits allows us to collaborate
easily with other people working on the project, and lets SMEs do their
thing, developers do theirs, graphics and media people theirs and so on.


 

The approach you take will depend on what it is you want to achieve I
guess.

 

J

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Johnathan
Kemp
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 3:20 PM
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Limitations in page templates

 

Hello Xerte Team,

 

I have been taking a closer look at Xerte over the last couple of days,
trying to establish the best way to use it.

 

I may be wrong but it seems to me that you either use the page templates
and get a lot of ready made pages, but then cannot leverage scripting
because the templates don't grant access to this, or you use the raw
xerte, but then you cannot take advantage of the development work that
has taken place in the page templates.

 

Or am I missing something?

 

Is there a way perhaps of adding scripting hooks into the page
templates, or alternatively can the page templates be utilised in raw
Xerte as models?

 

Kind regards

 

Johnathan

 

Johnathan Kemp
IT Dev. Manager
Connexions Staffordshire
www.cxstaffs.co.uk <http://www.cxstaffs.co.uk/> 
01785 355714

 

 

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