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Use context to set the custompage

Posted by loze on September 11, 2009 at 8:15pm
Project:Custom Page
Version:6.x-1.12
Component:Code
Category:feature request
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:closed (duplicate)

Issue Summary

Is it possible to assign a custompage template using context.
I know you can set a context by custompage, but Id like to do it the other way around.

thanks.

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#1

Posted by irakli on September 11, 2009 at 8:32pm

Interesting idea.

Do you have a specific use-case, in mind that we can test the implementation against?

Thank you.

#2

Posted by loze on September 12, 2009 at 6:40am

Now, I may be missing something, because I have not used this mod extensively and just playing around with it now, but here's what im thinking...

Say you have a few content types A,B,C, and D and a couple views.
and you want to apply the same custompage template to nodes of content types A and B and a views page.
You can use context_ui to set a context for these pages. But if there was a context reaction where you could choose a custompage, it would apply that template to these pages.

Im not sure if this would work because you are allowing context to be set by custompage, but since you can set context by path also, you could do away with the path in the custompage settings and just use context to choose the path and set the page template.

In my particular case I'm using a custom mod that sets a context by taxonomy term. you could then have different templates depending on term/section.
http://drupal.org/node/343110

the use cases are endless I think.

does that make sense?

#3

Posted by irakli on March 15, 2010 at 2:15am
Status:active» postponed

This does make sense, but needs to be implemented.

#4

Posted by BenK on May 6, 2010 at 6:08pm

Subscribing...

#5

Posted by edward_or on September 16, 2010 at 9:40pm

How would this be different from Context Layouts? I don't see the distinction.

#6

Posted by loze on September 22, 2010 at 7:39am

I originally posted this before context layouts was around, which I have been using lately.
I never ended up going with this module.

#7

Posted by irakli on September 23, 2010 at 8:06pm
Status:postponed» closed (duplicate)

I assume best practice is to use Context Layout and therefore closing the issue.

#8

Posted by edward_or on October 6, 2010 at 10:03am

I think there is a bit of overlap between custom page and context layouts.

The distinction I make when I try to think which I should use is,

  1. Use context layout for when you need a custom layout that is repeated throughout the site.
  2. Use custom page when you need a once off page that you would have to create lots of regions that will only be used once.

I am a lot more familiar with context layouts then custom page though so I could be not understanding custom page to its full extent.