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Template Questions /

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Might be a pointless question, but...


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Timothy McClatchey

Community Member, 3 Posts

19 March 2011 at 6:01am

I'm sorry if this is a pointless question, I don't have a lot of time ATM and scoured the documentation a bit, but couldn't find anything regarding what I'm looking for.

Anyway, I'm curious if there is a way to import a page into a template. Not another template page, but one of the pages in the list on the backend.

In case you need to know why, I have a client who want's to change their website to SilverStripe. They have a scrolling news ticker on their website and want to be able to change that content dynamically. I figure if this is possible, just set up a page that's hidden from view and just pull the content into the template code.

Any help that anyone can give me would be much appreciated. Thanks!

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honeybunny

Community Member, 79 Posts

19 March 2011 at 9:11am

Could you just untick the "show in menu" box on the Behavior tab? It's not a sophisticated solution, but it would give you a live page that is hidden from the menu.

HB

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Timothy McClatchey

Community Member, 3 Posts

19 March 2011 at 3:56pm

I understand how to hide the page in the menus and whatnot. What I am looking to do is import page content dynamically into a template ss file. :)

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

19 March 2011 at 6:13pm

<% control Page(url-of-page) %>
.. inside your url-of-page page. You can use $Content etc.
<% end_control %>

http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/reference/built-in-page-controls

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Timothy McClatchey

Community Member, 3 Posts

20 March 2011 at 6:11am

Awesome. Works exactly like I wanted it to. Thanks a lot! :)