Component and parameters
Hello, Is it possible to send/give parameters to a custom component? I also thought to have two components, one with the parameters (variables) and one with the code, but the variables are no...
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When you say parameters, are you referring to URL parameters (ie. query string parameters). If so, you can use the http.request context object to get the value of query string parameters. Here's a simple example
<#assign val = http.request.parameters.name.get("myParameter", "default value") />
myParameter: ${val}
You can specify your own name for the parameter, as well as whatever default value you'd like to assign if the parameter isn't present in the query string.
Alternately, if you want to parse out the request URL, you can use http.request.url to get the URL of the current page, and then freemarker has many built-ins for strings, such as split, substring, index_of, etc.
Here's more on the built-ins:
http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/ref_builtins_string.html
And here's more on the http.request context object:
I hope this helps!
-Adam
for the moment, on the top of my component i have these variables / parameters
<#assign paramBoxTitle = "What's new in the Community" />
<#assign BoxType = "mgc-object-world" />
<#assign paramNbItemMax = 5 />
<#assign paramPageSize = 200 />
<#assign paramBoardTypes = ["all"] />
<#assign paramCategories = ["all"]>
<#assign paramBoards = ["Welcome", "Feedback"]>
<#assign paramExcludeCategories = [""]>
<#assign paramExcludeBoards = [""]>
<#assign paramBoardId = "" />
I wanted to know if it's possible to get these values from another component or via the <component id="MEGAWhatsNewForum"/> which is on the page.
Thanks,
Laurent
