Comments on: Spry tutorial: linking to a non-default panel

By: David Powers

David Powers — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:21:57 +0000

The best place to get help with Spry problems is in the Adobe Spry forum. Upload to a website the page you're having problems with, and include the URL in your request for help.

By: LeonT

LeonT — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:30:20 +0000

i followed the tutorial and got it working so long as i use a panel number i.e. panel=3 in the URL
but as i want the links to be in rss feeds if i add another panel all previous links will show the wrong link as all numbers will move up by one. so i ID tagged each panel but stumped why it doesnt work now when i have panel=IDname rather than its order number in the accordian i.e test.html?panel=test yet test.html?panel=3 works even thou the id test is on this same panel. know its something obvious im doing wrong but heads bursting trying to see it :-/ any help welcome, thanks

By: Gary Willison

Gary Willison — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:16:32 +0000

Very helpful in understanding how to use the ‘SpryURLUtils.js’ to pass a url and open a panel different page.

I’m looking to go one step further in passing the info in the url… in that I need to go to different page (answered), then open a collapsible panel, (answered) and then go to a particular page within my sliding panel (not answered).

Was hoping you are up for answering question on how to add the sliding panel info to my link of: http://dev.wng.com/index.cfm?action=wnpm_onsite&PageID=12?panel=3&colPanelIt=open#CollapsiblePanel3core”

The id for the sliding panel that needs to show is: ex3_p4

- Best Wishes,
Gary Willison

By: David Powers

David Powers — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:51:00 +0000

Yes, Gwen, it probably is possible to do, but I’ll leave it up to someone else to work out how to do it. Much though I would like to do it, I can’t solve every question on the web.

By: Gwen Lane

Gwen Lane — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:11:50 +0000

Thanks for the great tutorial. Works great. I was wondering, however, if it was possible to link to specific spry tabs from an XML based (flash) menu?? Thanks.

By: Oliver Melton

Oliver Melton — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:52:27 +0000

Ah, Mister Powers: my new best friend!

Thanks so much for your helpful comment. It does work now, and I couldn’t have done it without you.

Thanks, thanks, thanks!

By: David Powers

David Powers — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:17:39 +0000

Oliver, it's exactly the same as for an accordion. You use defaultPanel. In stillLifeFlowers.htm, add ?panel=1 to the the link that returns to the other page. Add the code block that declares params: var params = Spry.Utils.getLocationParamsAsObject();. Then add the defaultPanel option to the sliding panel constructor:

var sp1 = new Spry.Widget.SlidingPanels("SlidingPanels1", {  defaultPanel: params.panel ? params.panel : 0, duration: 250, fps: 120 });

By: Oliver Melton

Oliver Melton — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:23:00 +0000

I’m trying to link to a specific SLIDING panel (not a tabbed panel) from a remote link. I’m sure this can be done using SpryURLUtils.js as I’ve successfully achieved the result with tabbed panels. There’s not as much online information on doing this with sliding panels, though, and I’ve had no luck experimenting on my own.

Can anyone help?

Here are two example pages of the pages in question:

:: http://www.studiohyperset.com/sandbox/aafd/impressionist.php
:: http://www.studiohyperset.com/sandbox/aafd/fullsizepgs/impressionist/stillLifeFlowers.htm

The user launches the second page from the first and should be able to get back to the second sliding panel on the first page by clicking “RETURN.” Right now, when the user clicks “RETURN,” s/he returns to the first slide in the sequence.

Thanks in advance for any help.

By: Libby Weisdepp

Libby Weisdepp — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:38:59 +0000

I’m having the same problem as Karelle. When I paste in the final piece of coding near the bottom – , {defaultTab: params.tab ? params.tab : 0} – each of my tabs open up onto one page making the tabs obsolete. When that piece of code is removed, my page returns to normal.

What am I missing?

By: Steve Kellman

Steve Kellman — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:06:10 +0000

Here’s a twist on the problem–how would you pass the referrer URL (or a portion of it) to the destination URL so that the destination URL opens a corresponding tab or panel to the referrer URL? For example, I’ve got sliding panels on a client list page and on a separate interactive map page for my company and the panels define different client types–government, healthcare, education, etc. When someone’s viewing the healthcare client list (e.g., website.html/client-list.html?panel=1) and clicks on the interactive map page link, I’d like them to be taken right to website.html/interactive-map.html?panel=1 instead of the page with the default panel. I’d guess it’s pretty easy but I’m already at the limit of my coding ability, so any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.