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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

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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}
      • iftomkins's avatar
        iftomkins
        Maven
        11 years ago

        Here is the code that is in the Desktop Hitbox area:

         

                 <#if page.name?lower_case == "forumtopicpage" >
                    <#assign originalTopicSubject = rest("/messages/id/${page.context.message.id}/root/subject").value>
                    var topicTitle = '${originalTopicSubject}';
                    jQuery(".lia-message-subject-banner").each(function(){
                        jQuery(this).text(topicTitle);
                    });
                 </#if>

         

        And here is the freemarker error response (made some adjustments since last time):

         

        https://www.dropbox.com/s/59dehi42ngfvx33/Screenshot%202014-02-05%2016.08.57.png

         

        thanks so much!