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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Ah, I think I see now. So essentially you have a bunch of variables that you want to use in multiple places. Are these variables final, or do you intend to update the values?
If the values will not be changed, you can use the freemarker "include" directive to insert the component containing your variables into other components.
For example, if you had a component containing all these variables named "global-vars", you could add this to all the components that you wanted to use these variables:
<#include "global-vars" />
Keep in mind that this approach will only work if you don't plan to update the values of the variables in "global-vars". If you've included "global-vars" in components A and B, updating the value of one of the variables in A will have no impact on B. Each component essentially gets their own copy of the original code from "global-vars".
If you want to be able to update a variable in component A and have it impact component B, that's going to be more tricky and I'd like to understand more about what you're trying to accomplish.
In fact I wanted to do the opposite ;o)
My component has some "parameters"
For example I can show the recent topics of:
- a list of categories
- a list of board types
- a list of boards
and I can exclude categories and boards
so the code of the component is always the same. Just the parameters are differents.
BUT I think i have MY Solution ;o)
I have to create
- a component with the parameters
- a component with the code
- a component which include this two components
