It didn’t take long for one of the new features of v22 to save us enough development time to pay for the cost of the upgrade.

We ran into a need this weekend to create a “lite” version of a website for some users. The website normally looks like this:

All three of those “boxes” on the left hand side needed to be completely different for the “lite” version. The changes are more that what could be handled with a few simple hide and unhides, so I started down the path of creating a new page template and duplicating the two or 3 pages that we needed using a different template. Then I remember we now have planes in WebDev 22.

The left side of that page is already a zone, so all I did was enable the management of planes for that zone.

Then I was able to created a complete different set of boxes on the left hand side for a second plane. In my page logic a bit of simple code to determine which plane to show:

IF Glo.CustomerRec.DoCollections = "Y" THEN 
    zoneBodyLeft..Plane = 1 
ELSE 
    zoneBodyLeft..Plane = 2 
END

And now we have a “lite” version of the site.

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