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jmurray's avatar
jmurray
Champion
12 years ago

getting a module to disappear itself when it's empty

I have a piece of custom content that serves as an unsolved threads module.  Works great except that once everything's solved, it's an ugly, empty, useless box.   I am trying to figure out how to c...
  • DougS's avatar
    DougS
    12 years ago

    It looks like you are relying on the "forums.widget.message-list-panel" component to do the actual REST query, and you want to determine before rendering that component whether or not to display it.  You could use the same query, but with a /count at the end of the path, to determine if there will be any results -- something like this:

     

    <#assign rest_count_query = "/boards/id/ent5/search/messages/count?openresponse=true&sort_by=-topicPostDate&include_forums=true&page_size=" + results_list_size/>

<#assign rest_count = rest(rest_count_query).value />
<#if rest_count?number gt 0>
  <#-- call the forums.widget.message-list-panel component -->
</#if>

     

  • KaelaC's avatar
    KaelaC
    12 years ago
    There is ?solved=true but that will only return you solved threads. It is a filter on all messages. Unfortunately, that means that ?solved=false doesn't get you all unsolved threads. It just gets you all threads (same as what you have without anything in the query string). I would add an idea to have either ?solved=false return unsolved threads or a new filter ?unsolved=true.
jmurray's avatar
jmurray
Champion

I'm closer than I was before, but I keep getting "Expected extended-hash or sequence"on the suggested 

<#if rest_query?? && rest_query?size gt 0>

line with this code:

 

<html>
<head>
<style>
.MessageStatusIcon {float:left; padding-right:7px; clear:both;}
.MessageSubjectCell {padding-left:7px;}
.clearfix {display: inline-block;}
div.lia-panel.lia-panel-standard.UnsolvedSide-wrapper {width:100%;}
div.lia-panel.lia-panel-standard.UnsolvedSide-wrapper.noneDisplayed {display:none;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<#assign message_list_title = text.format("custom.UnsolvedSide.title")/>
<#assign results_list_size = 5 />
<#assign rest_query = "/boards/id/ent5/search/messages?openresponse=true&sort_by=-topicPostDate&include_forums=true&page_size=" + results_list_size/>
<#if rest_query?? && rest_query?size gt 0>
<div class="lia-panel lia-panel-standard UnsolvedSide-wrapper" id="knowTheAnswer" style=float:left; padding-left:7px; white-space:nowrap; overflow:wrap; width:200px;>
	<@component id="forums.widget.message-list-panel" title="${message_list_title}" messages="rest_v1:"+rest_query style="slim" numMessages="conv:"+results_list_size/>
</div>
<#else>
<div class="lia-panel lia-panel-standard UnsolvedSide-wrapper noneDisplayed" id="knowTheAnswer" style=float:left; padding-left:7px; white-space:nowrap; overflow:wrap; width:200px;>
	<@component id="forums.widget.message-list-panel" title="${message_list_title}" messages="rest_v1:"+rest_query style="slim" numMessages="conv:"+results_list_size/>
</div>
</#if>
</body>
</html>

 Any suggestions?  This probably isn't the most elegant way of doing it, but the idea here is to just make it invisible if it's empty.  The class works if you apply it manually in Firebug.

DougS's avatar
DougS
Khoros Oracle
12 years ago

It looks like you are relying on the "forums.widget.message-list-panel" component to do the actual REST query, and you want to determine before rendering that component whether or not to display it.  You could use the same query, but with a /count at the end of the path, to determine if there will be any results -- something like this:

 

<#assign rest_count_query = "/boards/id/ent5/search/messages/count?openresponse=true&sort_by=-topicPostDate&include_forums=true&page_size=" + results_list_size/>

<#assign rest_count = rest(rest_count_query).value />
<#if rest_count?number gt 0>
  <#-- call the forums.widget.message-list-panel component -->
</#if>

 

  • jmurray's avatar
    jmurray
    Champion
    12 years ago
    That worked! Thanks.

    One question though: it works perfectly on Stage but doesn't seem to exist on Production, even though the custom content module in question exists there. I may ask Support about this one...
    • DougS's avatar
      DougS
      Khoros Oracle
      12 years ago

      Is the issue that it doesn't display on prod?  If so, try making the search REST call on it's own (in a browser, or in a REST Client browser plugin -- I like the firefox "RESTClient" plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/restclient/) and see what it returns (are there any values returned?).  

       

      Or is the issue that the custom content module is not populated on prod?

      • jmurray's avatar
        jmurray
        Champion
        12 years ago
        I have to wait for somebody to post a new topic to see what happens at this point, but one thing I noticed from Stage is that if you unsolve something, the module still thinks its solved.