[Radiant] Dynamic Attributes in a Snippet Tag?

[Sean Cribbs]

Loren,

It sounds like you need page parts, but if I'm understanding you 
correctly, you need at least one snippet so it can be evaluated in the 
template or in multiple pages.  A page part would contain the summary, 
which would be accessed and formatted by the snippet.

Sean

Loren Johnson wrote:
>
> Sean and Mislav thanks for the responses --
>
> For what it's worth, below is the use case for dynamic attributes in 
> Snippets.  There are things that I'd like to see added to a Radiant 
> release more and before than this without question (page reordering 
> and reparenting please), but at least here is a use case for the 
> record of what I think could be an easy, useful and possibly in-scope 
> extension to Snippets.
>
> *An Article Summary Template*
>
> I work with a designer for most everything I do. His HTML/CSS skills 
> are poor. We are just finishing-up a site 
> (http://diopa.grimedesign.com) and in that site on several pages we 
> pull-in the summary part of an article and attached a nice little 
> header which spits out the name of the Section and the date the 
> Article was posted before the title. This summary pattern repeats many 
> times and is always the same except that we like to customized the 
> link text which goes to the full article. Everything else is dynamic.
>
> So I say to Paul, no problem I'll just through that little set of tags 
> into a snippet such that he can do a
>
> <r:find url="/news/ecs/article">
>  <r:snippet name="summary" linkText="Read more about this on ECS News" /> 
> </r:find>
>
> This means that he doesn't have to copy and paste a format for this 
> summary over and over as he populates the site with content. It also 
> of course means we don't have to change it in all those spots if we 
> want to change something global outside the scope of the CSS in this 
> summary format.
>
> We had considered using another page part called "linkText' to 
> accomplish the same end, however we have situations where the same 
> article is posted in multiple places on the site in different contexts 
> and the link text changes accordingly.
>
> Without any of these options working we're left with the acceptable, 
> though less than preferable solution of:
>
> <r:find url="/news/ecs/article/" >
> <div class="articleSummary">
>     <r:snippet name="ArticleSummary" />
>     <r:link class="more">Read more about this on ECS News...</r:link>
> </div>
> </r:find>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Loren Johnson
> loren at fn-group.com <mailto:loren at fn-group.com>
>
>
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