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Mdavis399
Contributor
4 years ago

Help with Editing a Component with Freemarker

Hi everyone, I need help using the Freemarker code in order to edit one of my custom components. Following the steps outlined in this tutorial,  I was able to write a component that retrieved and d...
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    snaffle
    4 years ago

    Hi Mdavis399 , you should be able to increase the number of posts displaying by increasing page_size=1 to page_size=3 or page_size=5

    To make the component dynamic and dependent on the board it's loading in, you can used coreNode.id to retrieve the blog id and load it as a variable, so:

    <#assign blogId = coreNode.id />

    and then:

    <#assign recent= rest("/boards/id/${blogId}/topics/recent?page_size=5").messages />

    I think that's right anyway 😊

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snaffle
Expert
4 years ago

Hi Mdavis399 , you should be able to increase the number of posts displaying by increasing page_size=1 to page_size=3 or page_size=5

To make the component dynamic and dependent on the board it's loading in, you can used coreNode.id to retrieve the blog id and load it as a variable, so:

<#assign blogId = coreNode.id />

and then:

<#assign recent= rest("/boards/id/${blogId}/topics/recent?page_size=5").messages />

I think that's right anyway 😊