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iftomkins
Maven
12 years ago

Displaying title of first message of a topic on the topic page?

Happy holidays!   We'd like to display the title of the first message of a topic on the topic page. Is there a way to pull the title of the title of the first message (e.g. the original topic title...
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iftomkins
Maven
12 years ago

Update:

 

Here's what I've tried, to no avail. A million error messages as a result. I think I'm on the right track though?

 

<#assign originalTopicSubject = rest("/messages/id/${page.context.message.id}/root.subject").value>
${originalTopicSubject}

 

Thanks for your help!

Alan

  • AdamN's avatar
    AdamN
    Khoros Oracle
    12 years ago

    Hi Alan,

     

    I think you're actually really close. Instead of ".../root.subject" try ".../root/subject". For example:

    <#assign originalTopicSubject = rest("/messages/id/${page.context.message.id}/root/subject").value>

     

      • KaelaC's avatar
        KaelaC
        Lithium Alumni (Retired)
        11 years ago
        What's the javascript around this value? If you want to writing out to js rather than html you may need to encode your output. Something like ${originalTopicSubject?html}