How can we create sub modules in boilerplate.js - boilerplatejs

I have a design,
Where Im having lots of products and then each product has lots of sub products.
So Now in the First Screen I want to show a dashboard which will show all of my products.
On click of each product I want to open a separate view with its own left side navigation bar and detail view. These will be my main modules
now options in left side menubar will be my sub-products. Now click of any subproduct. I want to change my detail view. These will be my sub modules
Please share some sample example if you have with yourself
Thanks in advance.

BoilerplateJS supports having nested contexts. More information is available under 'Product Modules' section in boilerplatejs.org. A nested context can be created by passing the parent context in to the child context when creating it. You can create a context for each of your products. And within that context you can create modules, which will be your sub products. Having this type of a modular structure would help you in maintaining your code.
Implementing your requirement can be done in many ways.
One method is to structure the urls of your application as follows:
www.myapp.com/index.html#productA/submodule1
www.myapp.com/index.html#productB/submodule1
You can implement the menu as a seperate module, where it will change the menu that needs to be displayed according to the first portion (productA, productB) of your URL, and your sub modules can be activated/de-activated according to the rest of the URL portion. This method allows you to bookmark the pages and bring it to the same state when a bookmarked link is triggered.

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Menu of structures

I'd like to have main menu in wiki part of Tiki Wiki. It should have following top-level items:
About
Atlas
Encyclopedia
Now the tricky part: I'd like to link each of above top-level menu items to corresponding structure so that hovering over Atlas opened sub-menu taken from Atlas structure.
I can make static menu like About/Atlas/Encyclopedia. I can make dynamic menu out of one structure so that top-level structure items become top-level menu items. Basically I need a menu out of structure but in such a way that it is structure's root that becomes top-level menu element. And then place three such structures horizontally.
Alternatively I could do it by nesting structures. Is it possible? And in such a way that it can be turned into nested menu?
I just stumbled over your question today and I hope my answer still can be a help for you.
Imho the right approach is to create a custom module and in the custom menu a "toplevel menu" with some simple html. The menu consists out of the three top items and for each one the appropriate structure menu as list element.
You want a horizontal menu, right?
The menu items "About", "Atlas", "Encyclopedia" representing your three wikistructures would be kind of drop down (or hover effect) horizontal css menu items level=0 (to) for example in a top-bar custom module.
You hover over one of the menu items and the associated wikistructure menu appears.
Regards,
Torsten
Well, I settled with "hybrid" solution. I have a structure like that:
Root
About
Intro
Setting
Encyclopedia
Organizations
Technology
Atlas
Inner system
Outer system
I created a "Root" page and made a Structure out of it.
Then I created first-level pages in that structure.
In next step I created those second-level pages - but as separate
pages, not part of "Root" structure.
Every such second-level entry was made a Structure and sub-pages were created in those secondary structures.
Then I added each second-level page (being a root of second-level structure) to main "Root" structure.
"Root" structure was then declared as main menu: in Manage > Modules > Assigned modules > Topbar I added "Menu" module and set structureId of "Root" structure.
So basically it's this alternative of nested structures I asked about. It does solve my problem of having tree-structure for menu that isn't overloaded by every minute page on wiki I'd like to have. On one hand it doesn't show all the entries but on the other hand it's good - the reader isn't overwhelmed and still can access deeper pages by second-level pages that have all the sub-structure listed.

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I am creating a new footer sublayout in sitecore for use in multiple sites (we run a multi site environment). Currently a sublayout called StandardLayout is used, but I would like to change this across several of our sites to a new layout GlobalFooter.
The problem is that child items of the Home Page have overridden layout components, so what I would like to know is if there is an easy way to change the layout without losing all of the overridden components (as I expect that I may need to reset the layout in order for the flow down to occur)?
I am hoping to be able to just change the top level element (Home) and then have this flow down to the child elements, otherwise this task will become very long and tedious if I need to go through each item and change the presentation to use the new footer.
The icon circled in red in the image above indicates that the presentation has been overridden for that particular sitecore item.
To answer your question, directly, there is no way to apply an update of the presentation details of a template to templates that inherit from it that have had their presentation details changed without losing the changes.
The solution described in the blog post you linked to is the best solution for updating inherited presentation details in this manner. IMHO, I believe that this functionality should have been built into Sitecore long ago as a separate button on the ribbon, and you may choose to add one if you are so inclined. If you do not have the time to do so however, creating an admin page that you later delete from the site after using is a perfectly viable solution as well.
This post appears to detail a way that I can achieve my goal, basically I would create a admin page that does not publish and put the code in the blog into it to update the layout via a button trigger.
https://www.sitecore.net/Learn/Blogs/Technical-Blogs/John-West-Sitecore-Blog/Posts/2011/09/Programmatically-Update-Layout-Details-with-the-Sitecore-ASPNET-CMS.aspx

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I was contemplating refactoring my ContactEditPanel to extends FormComponentPanel rather than Panel as described here but I'm not sure whether this is the right approach and I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this.
Any help would be most appreciated!
Many Thanks,
A
Your using the panel like a FormComponent so extend FormComponentPanel, it will allow you to keep all the validation you write contained to the component and also allow you to reuse it as you wish.
Just think of it as you've created a new FormComponent, like a TextField or DropDownChoice.

SharePoint 2007 - add additional menu to Global Navigation in a Master Page

In the source code for a master page, there is a section that has the following ASP.NET item: . This contains the "Welcome (User Name)" and Site Actions menus.
How do I create an additional menu that is similar to the look and feel of the Welcome menu? I've tried to create Front End HTML that behaves similar to the out of the box SharePoint menus, but it isn't quite right. I would prefer to utilize an ASP.NET or SharePoint control that acts similar to the SharePoint menu if that is possible.
For example, is <SharePoint:AspMenu> the appropriate control to use?
Thanks,
Robert
i am sure you will get better answer than this but just wanted to point what i have done to do this
i have added javascript library (JQuery) (for some other reason ) and when time come to do this thing i just added a JQuery code that creates another item in the navigation list with appropriate style and css class with the needed link and caption.
You could try another instance of the PersonalActions control with a custom GroupId. But when the control is rendered, it might also say "Welcome, [User]" just like the original.

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Does anyone know of a good javascript menu using the prototype library.
I need to produce a list of links available for each row of a HTML table as a hover/click dropdown menu.
Constraints
The list of links is the same for every row, however, a link needs to post an id param unique to the row.
The table is in a scroll pane, so the menu needs to know if if should render itself on the other side of the associated HTML element (e.g. TD) if necessary for visiblity.
I've found some a nice plugin for the JQuery library, but don't currently use JQuery and would like to avoid adding it if possible. I am already using prototype 1.6.
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