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leogomes's avatar
leogomes
Ace
11 years ago

How can i edit a default Component?

Hello There,   One Question: I can i edit a default component?   Many Thanks
  • nathan's avatar
    nathan
    11 years ago

    No - you can't change in-built components, nor can you see the underlying code for them (most of them aren't written in FreeMarker like custom components are).

     

    Some of the components have undocumented parameters that allow some modifications. You can also sometimes use a combination of CSS and JavaScript to modify their appearance.

     

    If that doesn't solve the problem, you can either to write a custom component from scratch, or ask Lithium to implement something for you.

nathan's avatar
nathan
Executive
11 years ago

There are a number of jQuery-based tag clouds available (just Google jQuery tag cloud). This one looks like it would do what you want:

http://www.pritaeas.net/public/jquery/jquery.tagcloud.0.5.0/index.html

 

You need to create custom component with a HTML list of the tags, with the appropriate weights specified as attribues. You can get the list of tags and weights via the REST API:

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/rest-api/bd-p/developers-rest-api?leaf-id=Community.tagging#Community.tagging.tags.all

 

Once you've got the list, just add the jQuery library and the relevant function call to transform the list into the tag cloud.