Placing wrapper on front page

[Svatopluk]

Hello all,

We have company intranet site. On the first page there is a left box with "Global News" (news from intranet on HQ) and right box with "Local News". On original HTML page there is a code with 2 iframes. I plan to use the wrapper component which is included. I have 3 questions :

1) I can create wrapper but access it only via link on menu. Is there any possibility to "Auto Show" the wrapper on front page?

2) To complicate this solution. Is there any possibility to have 2 wrappers on front page as 2 windows - width 50% each? I need the scrollbars there (or to have there possibility to set up height eg. 400 px)

3) Is possible to show some content items from mambo server to the wrapper (without headers etc.) as it is possible with regular html pages? When I try to show eg. nameofserver.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemi d=2
I get wrapper with everything like menu, header, footer etc.

Maybe in the future there will be 2 standalone mambo servers with content and I want to link them through wrapper component. Or is there any other posibility how to do that? Maybe we can have one specialized content item like Global news or Local news and link to them from another mambo server.

Hope, that somebody try to help.

Svatopluk
Prague, Czech republic

[Svatopluk]

I have answer for first question :
When you want to have something as default page instead of frontpage component, go to the Menu - Main Menu. Try to reorder this menu that first item will be the one you want have as default page. It works nice.

Anyone else for question 2 and 3?

Svatopluk
Prague, Czech republic

[Svatopluk]

OK, this is my solution to question number 2 :

It is not maintained by wrapper component! To force it to work you should add these lines of code to index.php of your template :

1) Create copy of your template

2) Create table with 2 columns with <td width="50%">

3) To the left one add this :

<div align="leftr">
<iframe name="iframe" src="http://yoursite.com/page.htm" width="97%" height="310" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
</iframe>
</div>

4) to right cell add this :

<DIV STYLE="width: 100%; height: 310px; overflow: auto">
<table border="0" width="100%" height="310">
<tr><td valign="top">
<?php include ("mainbody.php"); ?>
</table>
</div>

Now you have one window with scrollbar to the static page, and the right one is your web in window with scroll bar

5) Assign different template to your site (or the usual one before you changed this one). I have 2 copies of one template, first with the changes and the second one withou any change.

This works for me. But still there is a question. How to implement content item from another Mambo server to my pages? (When I try to link to that site, I get everything - with headers/footer, menu etc.)

Svatopluk
Prague, Czech republic