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wearesocialit
Ace
6 years ago

How to check if a standard component has content?

Hi all, Is there a way to check if a standard component has content? I'm using <@component id="solutions.widget.accepted-solutions-leaderboard-taplet"/> with a custom title added before in html, and...
  • AdamN's avatar
    AdamN
    6 years ago

    You can also do this similar to Parshant's suggestion, but without overriding the component.

    Freemarker allows you to assign a block of markup by using opening and closing assign directives instead of self-closing. Once you've assigned the markup to a variable, you can then use Freemarker built-ins to test the content.

    For example, you could do something like:

     

    <#assign componentOutput>
<@component id="solutions.widget.accepted-solutions-leaderboard-taplet"/>
</#assign>

<#if componentOutput?? && componentOutput?length gt 0>
<h3>Your component title</h3>
${componentOutput}
</#if>

     

    I've not tested this exact code, but it should get you close.

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PAULEM
Advisor
6 years ago

Hi wearesocialit 

You could do this with jQuery.  We use this widget so I checked it with Dev Tools. It displays in our sidebar as a table with a header row and five data rows. You could check for the existence of the data rows and display/hide the taplet heading if data exists/doesn't exist.  You might even be better off hiding the whole taplet if there is no data?

Hope this helps ...