Understanding more about Tabs on a blog

[sbwaters]

If I create a new outline named NewOutlineon Drummer blog, is it not a blog itself? What differentiates it from being a blog or other tabs like Links or About?

[scripting]

I don't understand the question.

[sbwaters]

On my sbwtweet Drummer blog outline titled "View from afar" I can Menu: Tools: Build my blog to render the site. Links and About are Instant Outline Tabs that get rendered to the same site. -- If I Menu: New: and insert "NewOutline" as the name, a new Tab outline appears named NewOutline. -- If I click Icons: +, the Month and Date appear in the NewOutline can I can add text. But I don’t know how to integrate NewOutline into anything since it doesn’t render by itself or when I render my main blog outline. I hope this makes more clear my inquiry about new outline Tabs other than Blog, Links, and About. Thnx.

[scripting]

I think the answer to your question may be that calendar structures in outlines are useful for things other than blogs.

All my notebooks in Drummer are calendar structures.

I'm not sure if that's the question you're asking though.

[mistersugar]

But I don’t know how to integrate NewOutline into anything since it doesn’t render by itself or when I render my main blog outline.

@sbwaters I think you are expecting NewOutline.opml to be connected in some way to what you see as your built blog. At the moment, I don't believe that is possible because of the following:

• The blog is just one function of Drummer.
• Drummer looks for an outline named blog.opml and uses the Old School CMS to build the blog that you see.
• As you've also done, Drummer will look for about.opml to fill in the About tab.
• However, Drummer doesn't know how to connect NewOutline.opml to your blog.
• I haven't tried the include function to have blog.opml pull in content from another outline. Is that what you are trying?
• But, you can make NewOutline.opml a public outline, which opens up other ways to display or use the outline. For example, in Little Outline there are ways to make Listicles and Status Centers. (See here.)

EDIT: Just thought that maybe you are asking how to create a fourth tab to show the contents of your NewOutline.opml file. Is that it? If so, then this worknote seems to be the key to the answer.

I suspect we'll learn other functions and features of Drummer in the weeks ahead.

[scripting]

@sbwaters @mistersugar --

Thanks for posting the notes here Anton, a correction.

• Drummer CMS does not look for "about.opml" -- instead, you tell it where to find your about file by setting the head-level attribute urlAboutOpml.