I’m struggling with the following.
Using FW Pro and EE (Joe’s actions) I want to spread the content (text) pulled from an EE tag across multiple columns.
Normally in FW you can link 2 containers using the flow tool. But that doesn’t seem to work with EE. The content still remains only in the first container.
Any suggestions?
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Hi
There are several solutions possible for this issue. Please have a look here, this looks promising to me (have NOT tested it myself yet.)
http://utilitees.silenz.org/index.php/addons/software/splitter/
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The FW text flow tool is completely static. Once generated, the content is fixed. It only reflows text content within Freeway.
The solution posted above looks like a good one. I don’t know offhand how to flow/link text coming from EE otherwise, except perhaps through trickery.
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I found a plug-in that trims a string of text, from the beginning or the end and then returns that string.
This combined with a limiter that only shows a set number of chars from the beginning, and you’re done.
So, you could make two DIV’s floating, the left one has the limiter set to let’s say 500 chars, with this plug-in http://utilitees.silenz.org/index.php/addons/software/trunchtml/
and in the right DIV you have the http://utilitees.silenz.org/index.php/addons/software/trimmer/ Trimmer plug-in that shows the rest of the article, minus the first 500 chars.
Could work.
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Maybe the above could not work completely as expected, on second thought, sorry. Text trim may not work well in the right DIV because of possible problems with missing
tags etc. There is actually no ‘phyisical’ connection between the two colums, like in Indesign, which we want to mimic here.
I’ve read another possible solution, with the use of jquery and CSS, but the server where the post is supposed to be is down (?) Here: http://www.csscripting.com/css-multi-column/
Maybe some Jquery guru could chime in on this one…?
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http://welcome.totheinter.net/columnizer-jquery-plugin/
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Thanks for the help.
I bookmarked the links and played around a bit. I’m on a tight schedule with this project so there is little time to investigate.
I’m going for the quick (and dirty) solution and let the client spread the content over 2 entries in separate columns.
Thanks
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You could use the CSS3 Columns Action[1] in Freeway when you make your
layout, and any modern browser will interpret it as two columns, while
lowly IE will show one wide column. This will absolutely respect the
length of content, without any need for character or word-counting, or
worry about spanning or splitting P tags.
Walter
On Dec 4, 2009, at 3:21 AM, RobP wrote:
Thanks for the help.
I bookmarked the links and played around a bit. I’m on a tight
schedule with this project so there is little time to investigate.I’m going for the quick (and dirty) solution and let the client
spread the content over 2 entries in separate columns.Thanks
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Walt,
You’re my savior! I like it when solutions are simple, so I can spend the time on design rather then coding.
It works perfectly.
Thanks,
Rob
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Wow. I should look there more often, Action exist from March 09.
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