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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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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}
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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!