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id-chalmers
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10 years ago

Which Page template is used for new ideas?

I am hoping to add a custom content block to the page where new ideas are submitted (the <body> class is PostPage). This would be fairly straightforward for an Idea Exchange page: I would create a ne...
  • VarunGrazitti's avatar
    VarunGrazitti
    10 years ago

    id-chalmers - As of now, there is no direct way to differentiating, the post page is common for messages, blog post and ideas etc. The only way you have is to get the ID of the board you are on from the URL using the context objects, and make a rest call to check the interaction style of this, if it is idea, you proceed with it.

     

    e.g. you are on this page /t5/forums/postpage/board-id/product-ideas 

You have to make a REST call: /restapi/vc/boards/id/product-ideas/interaction_style

Reponse: 
<response status="success">
<value type="string">idea</value>
</response>

    Let me know if this helps.

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id-chalmers
Mentor
10 years ago
Thanks @grazitti!
To clarify for any others who have the same problem: To modify the 'new idea' page in my community, what I did was to add a new custom component to the page called 'PostPage' under messages in studio. Inside that component, I did the rest call that grazitti describes, then rendered my content only if the response was 'ideas'.