Assignment 2

This is assignment #2 from Deane Barker's Introduction to Content Management class. This is an interactive assignment, which will be completed in the interface below.

Objectives

In this assignment you will work on three templating tasks. The goal of these tasks is to:

Introduce you to basic templating concepts: token replacement, filtering, looping, and conditionals
Reinforce the separation of content and presentation, and the use of multiple presentations for multi-channel publishing of the same content
Demonstrate the concept of the operative content object, and contextual influence of content in the surround

Directions

Below you will find three separate templating tasks. For each task, you will be presented with a wireframe and some information about the content available to each template.

Enter HTML and templating code in the "Template Code" editor, then press "Refresh Result" to execute that templating code against the content and see your result.

Your goal is to achieve a result which meets the requirements in the wireframe.

Some notes:

The exact HTML doesn't matter. Just make your result reasonably similar to the wireframe.
You will use the Fluid templating language to perform this assignment, but the purpose is not to give you experience in that (or any) specific templating language.
All content on this page is saved to your browser every 30 seconds. Revisiting this page from the same browser should reload the data as you last worked on it.

Submitting this Assignment

When you are satisfied with your solutions, enter your name in the box below, and click "Download Assignment" button. You will be prompted to download a text file which contains the information entered here. You will submit this text file to the instructor as your assignment.

Your Content Model

For all the tasks below, you will be working with two content types: a "TextPage" type, and a "Movie" type. For each task, you will be told what content objects are available, and what variables represent each of them in the template.

Type: TextPage

Attribute Name	Attribute Type	Sample Data
title	Simple Text	"Movie Listing"
text	Rich Text	"This is some text about the page..."

Type: Movie

There are three different movie objects.

Attribute Name	Attribute Type	Sample Data
id	Number	"13"
title	Simple Text	"Casino Royale"
date_released	date	"2006-10-01"
summary	Simple Text	"A solid start for new Bond actor..."
review	Rich Text	"I did not enjoy this movie for these reasons..."
actor	Simple Text	"Daniel Craig"

The Fluid Templating Language

This is the information about the templating language you will need to know.

Fluid Documentation

Task 1

For this task, you will render a page with a title, some introductory text, and a list of of movies.

Wireframe

Template Variables

The following variables are available to your templating code. The operative content object in this case is a TextPage. A list of Movie objects will also be provided.

Variable Name	Type
current_content	A single TextPage object
movies	A list of Movie objects