disable left menu in the homepage

Tuesday 21 July 2009 5:41:41 am

what design and siteaccess are you using? dis you install plain / ezwebin / ezflow packages?

Principal Consultant International Business
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Tuesday 21 July 2009 7:18:44 am

- enable debugging (alter site.ini;append.php and add these lines)

[ContentSettings]
ViewCaching=disabled

[DebugSettings]
DebugOutput=enabled
DebugRedirection=disabled

AlwaysLog[]=warning
AlwaysLog[]=debug
AlwaysLog[]=notice
AlwaysLog[]=strict

[TemplateSettings]
DevelopmentMode=enabled
ShowUsedTemplates=enabled
Debug=disabled
ShowXHTMLCode=enabled

[OverrideSettings]
Cache=disabled

- look up the templates used to render the homepage

- you will need to change the template used to render the homepage (a node of type folder). If you want other folders to show the left menu, you need to create an override template:
a -- create design/plain_site/override/templates/full/homepage.tpl, copying the code from the template you are currently using, and rip off the menu part
b -- set up an override rule in override.ini.append.php to use homepage.tpl for the root node

Principal Consultant International Business
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Wednesday 22 July 2009 1:24:54 am

Sorry, I misread you reply - I thought you where using the 'standard' design from 'plain' install.

For the 'ezwebin' design things are a bit different:
- the inclusion of the left menu is done from within the pagelayout template, not the node template (extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/pagelayout.tpl)
- the ezpagedata() template operator is used in the pagelayout to decide whether the left menu should be displayed or not
- in turn, it gets its info from the 'HideLeftMenuClasses' param in menu.ini

So to resolve your problem you could
- create a new class: homepage_folder, and use it only for the homepage instead of your current folder class, adding it to HideLeftMenuClasses
- override the template for the pagelayout based on node_id = 2 and create a pagelayout template that is identical but does not include the left menu
- use as main design a custom one of your invention instead of the ezwebin one, then copy the ezwebin pagelayout in your own design and alter it adding an "if node_id != 2" around the inclusion of page_leftmenu.tpl

Principal Consultant International Business
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Wednesday 22 July 2009 2:47:22 am

tnx! it works!