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muraleedharan
Helper
4 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...
AdamN's avatar
AdamN
Khoros Oracle

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
4 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
    4 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!