Use of overrides in fallback design

Wednesday 12 November 2003 11:52:02 am

Hi,

We are creating a site which uses one site design for the company, and a separate site design for each of our products. Since the color is mainly what varies from product to product site, I would like the product site designs to fall back on the company site design. So, I put the following in the siteaccess of my product page:

[DesignSettings]
SiteDesign=product_design
StandardDesign=company_design

However, now the product pages display mainly emtpy spaces where the company_design templates should be fetched. I've created nearly all of the company_design templates as overrides, so I'm wondering if that could be the problem. Are the template overrides of the StandardDesign considered or not? And what else could be wrong?

Thanks in advance !

Sincerely,

Eirik Johansen
Netmaking AS

http://www.netmaking.no/

Sincerely,

Eirik Alfstad Johansen
http://www.netmaking.no/

Thursday 13 November 2003 4:54:38 am

Hi Paul,

It might be better if I try to explain what I'm trying to do, and have you suggest a solution, if you would.

For the company site, I have created several template overrides. One of these is an override for the forum class in line view mode. Now, I would like the product site to use the same override for the forum class in line view mode because it makes use of the same forum, but I would like to avoid having to specify it as an override for the product site as well.

Also, for all templates that do not exist in neither the product nor the company site, I would like a fallback on the standard site design.

Is this doable?

Thanks in advance !

Sincerely,

Eirik Johansen
Netmaking AS

http://www.netmaking.no/

Sincerely,

Eirik Alfstad Johansen
http://www.netmaking.no/