Specifying a Page View dynamically

Is there any way in which a page view can be specified dynamically?

The scenario is that we have an application which uses the same pipeline and processing, but requires different views - currently depending on the URL.

For example, we might use http://domain.com/ops/app to display the usual view (xhtml), but would use http://domain.com/ops/app?template=basic to display the 'basic' view (different xhtml). What further complicates things is that views could be added or removed dynamically so we wouldn't want to hard-code the view into the page-flow. We can store the view 'name' in the model when we first get it, and then not have to worry about having it on the URL. We had considered that the view 'name' would be the sub-folder name that held all the view files.

I think there are two problems here.
1. How to specify what 'view' to use when first accessing the application. We use a URL parameter but there might be a neater way to do this.

2. How to get the page flow to use the specified view.

Does anyone have any thoughts as to how we might be able to do this?

Laurence Mee
Product Manager - Information Solutions Consultancy
Intelligent Transport Systems
Atkins Highways and Transportation

Woodcote Grove, Ashley Road, EPSOM, KT18 5BW, UK.
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From: Mee, Laurence [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: 17 October 2006 12:31
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Subject: [ops-users] Specifying a Page View dynamically

Is there any way in which a page view can be specified dynamically?

The scenario is that we have an application which uses the same pipeline and processing, but requires different views - currently depending on the URL.

For example, we might use http://domain.com/ops/app to display the usual view (xhtml), but would use http://domain.com/ops/app?template=basic to display the 'basic' view (different xhtml). What further complicates things is that views could be added or removed dynamically so we wouldn't want to hard-code the view into the page-flow. We can store the view 'name' in the model when we first get it, and then not have to worry about having it on the URL. We had considered that the view 'name' would be the sub-folder name that held all the view files.

I think there are two problems here.
1. How to specify what 'view' to use when first accessing the application. We use a URL parameter but there might be a neater way to do this.

2. How to get the page flow to use the specified view.

Does anyone have any thoughts as to how we might be able to do this?

Laurence Mee
Product Manager - Information Solutions Consultancy
Intelligent Transport Systems
Atkins Highways and Transportation

Woodcote Grove, Ashley Road, EPSOM, KT18 5BW, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)1372 750000
Fax: +44 (0)1372 750000
E-mail: [hidden email]
www.atkinsglobal.com/its

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From: Mee, Laurence [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: 17 October 2006 12:31
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Subject: [ops-users] Specifying a Page View dynamically

Is there any way in which a page view can be specified dynamically?

The scenario is that we have an application which uses the same pipeline and processing, but requires different views - currently depending on the URL.

For example, we might use http://domain.com/ops/app to display the usual view (xhtml), but would use http://domain.com/ops/app?template=basic to display the 'basic' view (different xhtml). What further complicates things is that views could be added or removed dynamically so we wouldn't want to hard-code the view into the page-flow. We can store the view 'name' in the model when we first get it, and then not have to worry about having it on the URL. We had considered that the view 'name' would be the sub-folder name that held all the view files.

I think there are two problems here.
1. How to specify what 'view' to use when first accessing the application. We use a URL parameter but there might be a neater way to do this.

2. How to get the page flow to use the specified view.

Does anyone have any thoughts as to how we might be able to do this?

Laurence Mee
Product Manager - Information Solutions Consultancy
Intelligent Transport Systems
Atkins Highways and Transportation

Woodcote Grove, Ashley Road, EPSOM, KT18 5BW, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)1372 750000
Fax: +44 (0)1372 750000
E-mail: [hidden email]
www.atkinsglobal.com/its

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