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Abstracting Out Content Into a Layout

Heres a pattern that abstracts out common code to a single file and publishes out to the live site as an include file. Think snippet of html that gets included in the big file.

1. Create a layout file in any Template, layout.asp (clone out output would work great)

2. Create a filename.asp that checks for the layout and changes publishing path accordingly. This is so this particular layout has different name from output.asp


if content.("_cmsLayout") = "layout.asp" then
content.add "_cmsPublishPath", replace(content.item("_cmsPublishPath"), "old_val", "new_val"
end if


3. In the template we wish to include this code do this


if content.isPublishing then

asset.setParam "_cmsLayout", "layout.asp"
<!--#include virtual="<% asset.getLink("path to asset that uses template with layout.asp file") %>" -->
'when the asset that asset.getLink() is referring to is published, one is published using layout.asp as the template and one using the standard output.asp

else

'include the code as if it was part of this template
system.include "/Template Path/layout.asp"

end if


To publish out the layout file you still need to set it up under the assets publishing properties. View -> Properties -> Publishing. Select the package in the first column then set the layout file to use. In this case it would be layout.asp.
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