[Seaside] Links and Components doubts

[Sebastian Van Lacke]

Hello, 

I'm from Argentina and I am working on a Seaside project. I don't speak English very well, so I hope you understand...

I need to recreate an old site using Seaside, and I and I'm having problems with the structure of the site.

My page has a header, menu, and a footer (which are repeated throughout the site) and a body that changes for each page of the site, 
depending on the option chosen on the menu.

CSRootComponent>>renderContentOn: html
 html div
  id:'allContent';
  with:[
   html render: header.
   html render: menu.
   self renderBodyOn: html.
   html render: footer.
  ]

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The component menu, displays a horizontal menu with links to different pages on the site.

CSMenuComponent>>renderContentOn: html
 html div
  id: 'menu';
  with: [
   html unorderedList: [
    self  renderMenuItemsOn: html.
    ].
  ].
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CSMenuComponent>>renderMenuItemsOn: html

 menuItems do: [:item |
  html listItem with: [
   html anchor 
    callback: item value;
    with: item key.
  ].
 ]

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CSMenuComponent>>initialize
 
 super initialize.
 menuItems := OrderedCollection new.
 self addMenuItem: 'Company Info' withBlock: [ self companyInfo].
 self addMenuItem: 'Products' withBlock: [ self products ].
 self addMenuItem: 'Downloads' withBlock: [ self downloads ].
 self addMenuItem: 'Resources' withBlock: [ self resources ].
 self addMenuItem: 'Support' withBlock: [ self support ].
 self addMenuItem: 'Contact Us' withBlock: [ self contactUs ].

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where each of the links should display a new page with the same structure as before, but with a different body.

It is right to create a component for each link ? For example, CSCompanyInfoComponent for companyInfo link.
How I call that component, from CSMenuComponent>>companyInfo method, to render in a new page??
I am confused by the fact that I don't have a renderCanvas to speak in that context.

Thanks!!!

Sebastian


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