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iftomkins
Maven
11 years ago

Test interaction style of current node

How do I test, via freemarker, what the interactions style of the page I'm on is?   I need to run some code when I'm at this URL:   https://community.stage.fitbit.com/t5/Help-Forums/ct-p/product/...
  • iftomkins's avatar
    iftomkins
    11 years ago

    Thanks, Adam! I tried the get parameter method but I think that will only return ?parameters=likeThese. Parsing the URL itself worked, here's the solution:

     

        <#assign currentUrl = http.request.url />
        <#if currentUrl?contains("idea")>
            <#--We know it's an ideas board-->
        </#if>

     

    This also helped solve the issue where the current node.Id returns "discussions" when you're looking at a list of ideas boards and when you're looking at a list of forums boards (i thought IDs were unique?). Now we can filter by whether the URL contains "interaction-style/idea":

     

        <#assign currentUrl = http.request.url />
        <#if coreNode.id=="feedback">
            ${http.response.setRedirectUrl("t5/Help-Forums/ct-p/product/interaction-style/idea")}
        <#elseif coreNode.id== "discussions" && currentUrl?contains("interaction-style/idea")>
            ${http.response.setRedirectUrl("t5/Help-Forums/ct-p/product/interaction-style/idea")}
        </#if> 

     

    For anyone coming across this post, just a reminder that all this code needs to be run in the Page Initialization tab. To get access to the Page Initialization tab you must contact Lithium Support.

iftomkins's avatar
iftomkins
Maven

Thanks, but it did not work. I think page.interactionStyle only works on certain types of nodes, and category pages it does not work on.

 

I'm currently accomplishing it with Javascript looking at the URL, but it's slower and messier:


                var url = window.location.href;
                   if(url.indexOf("interaction-style/idea") > -1) {
                           // do some thing
                   } else {
                          //do something else
                   }

iftomkins's avatar
iftomkins
Maven
11 years ago

I'd like to perform a redirect on certain pages using Freemarker. To do this, I'd like to be able test for being on this page:

 

      https://community.stage.fitbit.com/t5/community/mobilecommunitypage/interaction-style/forum

 

versus being on this page:

 

     https://community.stage.fitbit.com/t5/community/mobilecommunitypage/interaction-style/idea

 

There must be a way to test the interaction style without using Javascript to look at the URL. I hope someone knows the answer!