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jchen
Boss
11 years ago

widget could not be displayed (custom widget)

Hi, all! We have a custom component, and when the user is logged out, we see a "This widget could not be displayed." message. I checked with Support and they said to make sure  <#if !user.anonymous ...
  • JasonL's avatar
    JasonL
    11 years ago

    Hi @jchen,

    Sorry, my bad ... typo there ... it should be this (without the "/" in the back of first line)

    <#if !user.anonymous>
    ... rest of code ...
    </#if>

     (Just FYI, the error description said line 1, column 22 ... that means a typo on the first line, 22nd character)

     

    Let us know if that works out for you

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jchen
Boss

Thank you guys for your suggestions! JasonL , I did as you suggested but get this error

 

Freemarker template 'preview' parsing failed:
ParseException:Parsing error in template "preview" in line 1, column 22:
Encountered "/>", but was expecting one of:
    ">"
    "."
    "["
    "("
    "?"
    "!"
    <TERMINATING_EXCLAM>
    "??"
    "+"
    "-"
    "*"
    "/"
    "%"
    "!="
    "="
    "=="
    ">="
    <ESCAPED_GTE>
    ">"
    <ESCAPED_GT>
    <LESS_THAN_EQUALS>
    <LESS_THAN>
    ".."
    <AND>
    <OR>

 Not sure what that means...any ideas? Sorry about all the questions, I'm fairly new at this!

JasonL's avatar
JasonL
Lithium Alumni (Retired)
11 years ago

Hi @jchen,

Sorry, my bad ... typo there ... it should be this (without the "/" in the back of first line)

<#if !user.anonymous>
... rest of code ...
</#if>

 (Just FYI, the error description said line 1, column 22 ... that means a typo on the first line, 22nd character)

 

Let us know if that works out for you

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    jchen
    Boss
    11 years ago

    That worked! JasonL , you are my hero :smileyvery-happy: THANK YOU!!!