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Not possible to have embedded articles inside a banner

Last post 03-25-2008 9:02 AM by Ernie. 3 replies.
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  • 03-17-2008 5:08 PM

    Not possible to have embedded articles inside a banner

    If you are trying to embedd articles inside a banner.It's not possible in our Community Manager

    Try an alternate was of adding links on the banner to the article.Just a thought :)
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  • 03-18-2008 8:22 AM In reply to

    • Ernie
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    Re: Not possible to have embedded articles inside a banner

    Hi guys,

    In our instance here, we're trying to create a different banner / header for different user groups.

    Embedding articles makes it easy by restricting the article to be seen by security levels.

    Is their an alternative method to what we're trying to do?

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  • 03-19-2008 5:25 PM In reply to

    • davidg
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    Re: Not possible to have embedded articles inside a banner

    This is not an ideal solution in that it uses an iframe and relies on each banner to be the same height but what you can try is once you have all the articles created for each of the different banners / headers, you then need to create a new article in a folder that all users will have at least read only access to.

    In that new article embed each of the banner articles, making sure you select the "Display HTML content" option.

    Once that is complete, you then need to create (or edit an existing if preferred) an article that is going to be used as the final banner for the site (or folder if for a specific section).

    In this article you can place in the following code (as an example):

    <iFrame Title="Article Frame embedded article in banner" Name="Article Frame embedded article in banner" src="http://www.website.com.au/default.aspx?ArticleID=2433&FrameArticle=true" marginwidth=0 marginheight="0" leftmargin=0 topmargin=0 frameborder="0"  height="100" width="100%" marginwidth="0" frameborder="no"  scrolling="No"></iFrame>

    The text in bold you will need to replace with appropriate ones for your site. When it comes to the ArticleID required that will be the one from the article you created that contains all the embedded articles. To find out the article id, in the folder tree view, hover the mouse over the article name and a tooltip will show up with the details.

    Now set this article as the banner for the site or folder if for a specific area of the site. You can of course include other elements such as images, text etc along with the iframed content.

     

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  • 03-25-2008 9:02 AM In reply to

    • Ernie
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    Re: Not possible to have embedded articles inside a banner

    Thanks guys, an Iframe 'should' work fine as all the headers will be the same height.

    I'll give it a shot.

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