[support] approach with multiple levels of data

[sebastian]

Hi Justin,

Thanks for the feedback.

> I think you're over engineering this problem.  I see what you're
> trying to do... but wheres this data come from?  What is this data?
> 
> Just a note--you can put as much content as you want in a region in
> panels.  You don't need a separate panel template.

Hmmm, but if I put in several Views, all of the same type, but send 
different arguments for it [row1, row2, row3] then I still have to 
manually define the row numbers, and then I am lacking some of the 
theming control that I have now with the different rows. [I wrote a 
custom panel-style which themes the first view element of each row to be 
the accordion controller of that entire panel-row]

The data is coming from Node-creation. There are many types of nodes, 
some with a square image, some text, a couple of CCK fields etc. And 
then also some wide image types, some splash header content types, some 
3 column list content types, some carousel content types, and even some 
tab-view content types. These all have common CCK fields to determine 
'Panel' and 'Row' [but the user see's "Page" and "Sub-section" as this 
more logical from a content management perspective]

Some content can appear in more than one Panel/Row, so this is a 
multi-select check-box field. There are 10 such Panel pages, and they 
range from 3 Rows to 8 Rows [I hope].

I hope this makes sense; as it is indeed complicated.

Kind regards,

Sebastian.