Question

How do I override the WebLeftBar topic with my own?

I can create a personal sidebar. And TWiki/PatternSkinCustomization provides ways to hide the left bar. But how do I override it completely with my on choices?

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-- VickiBrown - 19 Mar 2008

Answer

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A co-worker asked this and I worked it out. Now I can use my favorite web's look and feel across our entire site.

This works with Pattern Skin

Step 1

Create your web left bar definition. For this example, the page is named Myweb.MyWebLeftBar.

Refer to WebLeftBar or ModifyingWebLeftBar for ideas.

Step 2

Create a View override template, e.g. Myweb.MyViewTemplate, overriding the definition of webleftbar with your topic.

%TMPL:INCLUDE{"view"}%

%TMPL:DEF{"webleftbar"}%
%INCLUDE{"Myweb.MyWebLeftBar"}%%TMPL:END%

Step 3

Set the VIEW_TEMPLATE variable in your home topic to use your view template instead of the default.

   Set VIEW_TEMPLATE = Myweb.MyViewTemplate

-- VickiBrown - 19 Mar 2008

Should be:

   * Set VIEW_TEMPLATE = Myweb.MyView

-- TimothyBourke - 2011-05-03