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id-chalmers
Mentor
11 years ago

Question involving working with components

(In regards to this article) Is there an easy way to bring in only the contents of a standard component from inside a custom component? I'm bringing the announcements component inside another custo...
  • VarunGrazitti's avatar
    VarunGrazitti
    11 years ago

    I don't think pulling in only content from announcements is feasble but if you just want to get the announcements text, you could use a workaround, like using the Custom Content in admin and then call it inside the Custom Component in studio using rest call.

    e.g. if you're using custom content 1 in admin to store the announcements text, use following call in your costom component.

     

    <#assign cc1_text= restadmin("/settings/name/customcontent.1_text/").value>

     

    Or other workaround might be, to override the announcements component, this might help you what you're looking for.

     

    http://community.lithium.com/t5/Community-FAQs/Using-override-to-change-core-components/ta-p/61358

     

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VarunGrazitti
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I don't think pulling in only content from announcements is feasble but if you just want to get the announcements text, you could use a workaround, like using the Custom Content in admin and then call it inside the Custom Component in studio using rest call.

e.g. if you're using custom content 1 in admin to store the announcements text, use following call in your costom component.

 

<#assign cc1_text= restadmin("/settings/name/customcontent.1_text/").value>

 

Or other workaround might be, to override the announcements component, this might help you what you're looking for.

 

http://community.lithium.com/t5/Community-FAQs/Using-override-to-change-core-components/ta-p/61358

 

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id-chalmers
Mentor
11 years ago

Thanks

Both look promising. To bad the announcements can't be treated like the 'custom content' feature. 

I ended up just including the whole component in my custom one using the xml tag, and I used css to hide all the chrome. Smelly - I know - but it works!