This is a bit hackish but I've don'e this successfully using panels2 by using custom PHP code. It involves being able to read a module's menu_hook though and write a little PHP, and being careful about security (cause you can bypass menu security this way.
The basic outline:
1. Determine the function being called in the menu_hook, 1. Create a minipanel (just to abstract the logic and security) 2. Ad a snippet of custom PHP code that calles the function. 3. Be extra careful to set security on this minipanel as it bypasses the menu security mechanism.
In your example, the forums page could be loaded into any Panel by including the following custom php pane in your mini-panel.
$block->content = forum_page();
This mini-pane can then be inserted into any block you have. Here's a more intense example where I'm passing context data to the php custom page to add the view cases page to a form that passes node id into the function being called.
$block->content = casetracker_cases_overview($context->data->nid,'state:6');
Your question has sparked some interesting ideas for me with regard to creating a module that does this more generically based on the data that's already in the menu system :). Especially once we get to drupal 6 and wildcards in the path. Wow the possibilities are endless.
Hope this helps.
-----Original Message----- From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Christopher M. Jones Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 8:57 PM To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] using panels to template system pages?
That's plan B. Thanks much for your suggestion. I was hoping that there would be a way to do this with panels, because that would be useful in other applications. For example, I'd love to bring group forums into the group home page.
Steve Kessler wrote:
To add text above the page you might want to look at just using blocks. If you have a region (or add a region) above the content region or put a block in the content region you can usually achieve this. You can then change the settings for the block to only show on
specific pages.
I hope this helps.
-Steve
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-----Original Message----- From: Christopher M. Jones [mailto:cjones@partialflow.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 10:05 AM To: support@drupal.org Subject: [support] using panels to template system pages?
I'd like to use panels to do things like add text to the top of the /forum page, but I don't see how to add this as content into the
panel.
I'm guessing it can't be done, or can't be done easily. Can someone
a. Tell me how to do it
b. Suggest another strategy.