Use StoryBuilder Twice on Site?

jlytel · August 2008

Can you use StoryBuilder for two separate applications -- one, for example, for press releases, and the other to share user tips -- WITHOUT both StoryBuilders drawing, or associating itself, with/on the "interests" of the other. I set up Storybuilder for our press releases and have Storybuilder also displaying user tips. But when I view the Press Releases I see that Storybuilder is letting users view the tips, which are unrelated to the press releases.

--Jayne

Adrian Cotter · August 2008

Hey Jayne,

Do you have a link you could share, so we could see?

I feel like you should be able to, but we've not done much with storybuilder, and I've had similar issues with calendar events.

Adrian

davidkano · September 2008

Jayne,

We are using StoryBuilder for two purposes at SCA . For a YearBook and EarthVision Pledge stories. The biggest challenge was that when an individual story is displayed, the application uses the default page wrapper for the general security group. So I had to use conditionals in that wrapper to display the page differently for each of the StoryBook purposes. Depending on the URL arguments, I display a different link to go back to the appropraite main story page for each of these.

I also used CSS to remove the navigational components that we did not want to display (CSS attribute display: none) so that the users would not be able to navigate between the two uses of StoryBook.

It was quite a bit of work, but it can be done, if you are comfortable with S tag programming in page wrappers.

David

c.stauffer · September 2008

davidkano :
Jayne,

We are using StoryBuilder for two purposes at SCA . For a YearBook and EarthVision Pledge stories. The biggest challenge was that when an individual story is displayed, the application uses the default page wrapper for the general security group. So I had to use conditionals in that wrapper to display the page differently for each of the StoryBook purposes. Depending on the URL arguments, I display a different link to go back to the appropraite main story page for each of these.

I also used CSS to remove the navigational components that we did not want to display (CSS attribute display: none) so that the users would not be able to navigate between the two uses of StoryBook.

It was quite a bit of work, but it can be done, if you are comfortable with S tag programming in page wrappers.

David

That's really neat using the conditional S-TAGS in that way. Would you be willing to share your URL syntax?

davidkano · September 2008

c.stauffer :
That's really neat using the conditional S-TAGS in that way. Would you be willing to share your URL syntax?

Here is the conditional code that I'm using to display the "back" links on the top of the content area in the wrapper used to display individual stories (the default page wrapper for the general security group):

]::news_iv_ctrl=1422::>A style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 10px" href="https://secure2.convio.net/scai/admin/PageNavigator/Yearbook_submissions">Back to YearBook>/A> ::>A style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 10px" href="https://secure2.convio.net/scai/SCA_EarthVision_Pledge_stories">Back EarthVision Pledge Stories>/A> ]

Sorry about the display above, I hope you can gleen what I'm trying to paste into this message. Evidently there is a bug in the discussion code that disallows using certain character combinations. Sigh. Reminds me of some other code I struggle to use!

Note that this was copied in the source mode so it would have to be pasted in the source mode as well. You must determine the news_iv_ctrl argument (the id number after the = ) for each of your storybook interests and use those instead of mine. You would of course also need to change the link href attributes and link text, if you had a similar need.

The only problem I see with this solution, is that if Convio changes the URL syntax for StoryBook, it could break this code.

Good luck!

jlytel · September 2008

Adrian Cotter:
Hey Jayne,

Do you have a link you could share, so we could see?

I feel like you should be able to, but we've not done much with storybuilder, and I've had similar issues with calendar events.

Adrian

Meant to get back to you earlier. My site is still in development and not linked up. Otherwise I'd share. --Jayne

jlytel · September 2008

davidkano :
Jayne,

We are using StoryBuilder for two purposes at SCA . For a YearBook and EarthVision Pledge stories. The biggest challenge was that when an individual story is displayed, the application uses the default page wrapper for the general security group. So I had to use conditionals in that wrapper to display the page differently for each of the StoryBook purposes. Depending on the URL arguments, I display a different link to go back to the appropraite main story page for each of these.

I also used CSS to remove the navigational components that we did not want to display (CSS attribute display: none) so that the users would not be able to navigate between the two uses of StoryBook.

It was quite a bit of work, but it can be done, if you are comfortable with S tag programming in page wrappers.

David

Thanks for sharing your site. It looks great! I'm afraid you all are much better Convio admins than me when you tangle with all that source code. --Jayne

Adrian Cotter · September 2008

jlytel :
Thanks for sharing your site. It looks great! I'm afraid you all are much better Convio admins than me when you tangle with all that source code. --Jayne

Hey Jayne,

Looking at David's site (which looks beautiful by the way!), this is how (I'm 90% sure) he hides the links to the other news stories

You can add this snippet of CSS to the bottom of your custom stylesheet in the Setup > Page Wrapper Editor > Edit CustomStyle.css (in the upper left).

Or if you were using a custom wrapper for the storybuilder articles, then you could also add it to the individual wrapper(s) under 2. Meta Tags > Additional HTML for HEAD element, but you would have to wrap it between .

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