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How to nest an editable optional region inside a repetitive region

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March 23, 2017
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Hi,

I am starting to work with Dw templates. I am trying to nest an editable optional region inside a repetitive region and the problem is that each time a new repetitive region is inserted, the nested editable optional region bears the same name, so any modification of the template modifies all editable optional regions with the same name.

How to resolve this problem ?

Thansk for any hint.

Jacob

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Correct answer Nancy OShea

Sorry, you cannot nest regions. It won't work. You need unique region names and they must be closed before you can insert another one.

some content

optional repetitive element

some content

and so on....

B i r n o u

Legend

in fact you can nest editable region in conditionnal region , themselves into repeat region... just think to be clear in what and how you write it...

I do that very often, (when website cannot be run from web server, run from USB without portable xampp) it works like a charm. I peronnaly don't use the DW generating code, I write template's code (comments) directly by hand, it'is more controllable

here , downbelow is a working sample... in that state only region 1 will be available... if you invert definition of 1 being false and 2 being true, you'll get the opposite

however, I have to admit that since the live view engines appeared in the DW IDE, it makes us all the more careful about such uses... sometimes, when we play with a lot of variables, and we change their values along the way, we should not hesitate to save the doc, change the values, save the doc again, close the doc, and reopen the doc to changes being took into account

arrays are missing as possible values of template variables and we have been asking for them for years (since macromedia) with some template users.

anyway... that's the way it is...

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="doctitle" -->
<title>Document sans nom</title>
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
<!-- TemplateParam name="OptionalRegion1" type="boolean" value="true" -->
<!-- TemplateParam name="OptionalRegion2" type="boolean" value="false" -->
<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="head" -->
<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
</head>

<body>
<h1>Titre</h1>

<!-- TemplateBeginRepeat name="RepeatRegion1" -->
	
	<h2>Repeat region</h2>
	
	<!-- TemplateBeginIf cond="OptionalRegion1" -->
		<h3>Static Content 1</h3>
		<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="EditRegion5" -->
			Editable content for region 1
		<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
	<!-- TemplateEndIf -->
	
	<!-- TemplateBeginIf cond="OptionalRegion2" -->
		<h3>Static Content 2</h3>
		<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="EditRegion4" -->
			Editable content for region 2
		<!-- TemplateEndEditable -->
	<!-- TemplateEndIf -->

	<p>Same content for both condition</p>	
	
<!-- TemplateEndRepeat -->

</body>
</html>

toshi_esumi

Inspiring

Your example has one editable inside of one optional. Have you tried opposite and multiple optionals inside one editable?

Toshi

B i r n o u

Legend

Basically it is not the question of the OP wanting to nest an optional editable region within a repeated region.

Your question is within the limits of the caution I advocate at the very beginning of my post, which consists in making sure that we are clear about what we want and how to achieve it.

you are asking to include elements (whatever they are, and even if they are optional) in a region that is itself editable.

But an editable region is essentially empty of other elements controlled by DW itself. This area is freely accessible, and therefore contains elements that can be directly modified by the user.

if you want to insert, by concept, optional elements within an editable content, why not insert them by default within the template in the editable region, free to the user to remove them or to leave them in the child page. (Once again, this is no longer the responsibility of DW but of the user. Don't forget, that the concept of templates is to give DW control over the organization of the content.)

Do you have a concrete example of such a use case of what you're asking for?

Jon Fritz

Community Expert

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toshi_esumi

Inspiring

This post was back in 2017. But even at the end of 2020 with 21.0, this doesn't seem to have changed. Is there any plan to make optional regions independent from editable reagions in templates in the near future?

Especially with some Bootstrap+modal pages while other pages are relatively static, I want to make the main content area as one editable region, then set some parts inside of the main content optional.

If would make templates much more flexible and "great!".

Toshi

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

I don't know what you mean by a repetitive region.

The way DW Templates work, you have to create an Editable Region for content that changes from page to page. Or an Optional Editable Region for items that may appear on some but not all pages.

You cannot nest Editable Regions.

Everything outside Editable regions is populated globally by the main Template.dwt file. I suppose that's what you mean by repetitive region? So as an example, your main Template contains a global header, footer & navigation element. The page specific content comes from editable regions in child pages.

Does that help you?

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Jon Fritz

Community Expert

The OP is likely talking about Repeating Regions....

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