There are a number of options available here, i'd have a different def
that extends showList , I'd call this base.list and then have different
defs per list.

name="user.list" extends="base.list"

in fact i assumed you'd only have to over load body, you could even
have a def as the value of body.


On 27 Dec 2003, at 06:12, Brady Hegberg wrote:

> I've been trying to find the best way to handle a situation where you
> have various formats for a tile and the tile appearance is chosen at
> run-time.
>
> <definition name="showList" extends="mainLayout">
>  <put name="header" value="/header.jsp"/>
>  <put name="body" value="/????"/>
>  <put name="footer" value="/footer.jsp"/>
> </definition>
>
> And I have content1.jsp, content2.jsp and content3.jsp which can be
> loaded into the page
>
> Should I:
>
> 1. Have a single tile with choose statements to determine the format.
> 2. Have a single master tile which chooses between various tiles and
> loads the selected one? (If possible?)
> 3. Have a ClassController or TilesAction class which changes the tile
> object and loads the chosen tile into the tile object before displaying
> it. (If so how is this done? Any examples available?)
>
> I found a couple similar references in the archives but no definitive
> answer.
>
> Thanks,
> Brady
>
> PS: It would be cool if you could create an action for a tile and then
> do an actionForward which returns the chosen tile into the correct spot
> on the calling page but I don't believe this is possible. At least
> I've
> never seen anything that indicated it could be done.
>
>
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