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Inactive User
13 years ago

Freemarker/Pagination

Scenario: I'm getting blog post information and displaying it in a custom component bu using a #list and rest call. I'd like to be able to limit how many blog posts show up using page_size (which I c...
  • AdamN's avatar
    AdamN
    12 years ago

    Oh, so are you still showing a list of topics like usual, except that it's formatted/styled differently? If you have the same number of items, you should adjust either the setting in the admin or the page size in your component so that they're in alignment. The issue comes if the number of pages is different between what the component says there should be and what the forum page is expecting.

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niten
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In fact, the component is the main focus of the page.

 

I'm still using the ForumPage as Forum Page, but instead of message-list I create a custom component because the data shown and the way they are display now is completely different. I didn't want to re style the message-list component (sometime re-style default component in Lithium is a pain in the a**), so I create my own...

 

I guess I will have to create my own paging rootine.

 

Thanks again for your intel.

 

niten

AdamN's avatar
AdamN
Khoros Oracle
12 years ago

Oh, so are you still showing a list of topics like usual, except that it's formatted/styled differently? If you have the same number of items, you should adjust either the setting in the admin or the page size in your component so that they're in alignment. The issue comes if the number of pages is different between what the component says there should be and what the forum page is expecting.

  • niten's avatar
    niten
    Guide
    12 years ago

    Of course !

    now that you are telling me that It's true that there is a parameter like this in the administration.

     

    Well, I will try this and let you know the result, but for now,studio  publish crashed so I can't test -_-.

     

    Thanks a lot.

     

    niten

  • niten's avatar
    niten
    Guide
    12 years ago

    Just an update to thank you again Adam.

    You were right, the defualt pagination item's number were different from my custom one.

     

    Problem solve.