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muraleedharan's avatar
muraleedharan
Helper
3 years ago

text key with condition

I'm trying to use this key with a custom component 

li.memberships.MembershipCount.count = {count, plural, one{1 member} other{# members}}

How I can pass the mentioned parameters in text.format("li.memberships.MembershipCount.count") to get the results with the plural condition.

answer with an example code as great help

  • AdamN's avatar
    AdamN
    Khoros Oracle
    3 years ago

    Hi muraleedharan , you can pass in the values as additional parameters for text.format. For example:

    <#assign membershipCount = 123 />
${text.format("li.memberships.MembershipCount.count", membershipCount)}

    text.format is overloaded to accept up to  6 arguments for core and custom text keys.

    I hope this helps!

    • muraleedharan's avatar
      muraleedharan
      Helper
      3 years ago

      Hi AdamN 

      Thanks for your update and providing an example, but unfortunately that is not working for me.

      These are the keys I want to looking to pass parameters, 

      li.nodes.NodeCreationDate.date = Created {date}

      li.memberships.MembershipCount.count = {count, plural, one{1 member} other{# members}}

       

      • AdamN's avatar
        AdamN
        Khoros Oracle
        3 years ago

        muraleedharan You're right, I think I see the issue. The text keys you're referencing I think are used by some of our JavaScript based components, and use a different format that isn't compatible with the Freemarker text.format context object.

        The text keys compatible with text.format have a slightly different syntax. For example:

        message.message-view.kudos-count.label             = {0} {0,choice,0#Kudos|1#Kudo|1<Kudos}

        I created a test component like this:

        ${text.format("message.message-view.kudos-count.label",123)}

        And the output was:

        123 Kudos

         

        So what you could do instead is to create a couple of custom text keys like:

        custom.li.nodes.NodeCreationDate.date = Created {0}
custom.li.memberships.MembershipCount.count = {0} {0,choice,0#members|1#member|1<members}

        And then in your custom component, you'd have:

        <#-- Could be from API result or other source -->
<#assign myDate = "10/22/21" /> 
<#assign myMembershipCount = 123 />

${text.format("custom.li.nodes.NodeCreationDate.date",myDate)}<br/>
${text.format("custom.li.memberships.MembershipCount.count",myMembershipCount)}

        And this would render: 

        Created 10/22/21
123 members

         

        I hope this helps!