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Accessing inner text of freemarker xml response elements
I'm using the lithium rest API and having a problem accessing elements' contained text values in the XML response. I can get the @attributes values but trying to get the text value of the element returns a freemarker error. Here's my code: <#assign groups = rest("/categories/id/platinum_groups/groups/list").groups/> ${groups.@@markup} <ul class="groups-list"> <#list groups.group as group> <li><a href="${group.@view_href}">${group.default_role.short_title}</a></li> </#list> </ul> Also: I can see from calling groups.@@markup that each group has an element called default_role which contains sub-elements including short_title. however when i call @@markup on the element it comes up empty. for example ${group.default_role.@@markup} returns just <default_role href="/roles/id/863" type="role"></default_role> Is there a different way to access the contained text for an element? The method shown in this post seems like it's just calling it with dot syntax ie: ${recent.message.subject}
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Freemarker access to custom content title?
I'd like to include not only the content but the title of my custom content blocks in a custom component. Right now, I bring in the body with something like <@component id="common.widget.custom-content" name="5" panel="false"/> Thanks!
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luk
Boss
11 years ago
Maybe you can try the rest API, that's how I did it until now (never used the title though):

inside FreeMarker

<#assign title = restadmin(someboardnode.@href + "/settings/name/customcontent.1_title").value />

I'm using restadmin here because I had issues with anonymous users not seeing the custom content...don't now why it's necessary, but restadmin solves it...
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Re: Which Page template is used for new ideas?
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'.
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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 new custom page in studio with the prefix "IdeaExchangePage" and then select it in my admin under 'custom pages'. But how would I do a similar thing for the Post Page? There's no field for that under Custom Pages in the admin, and post page us not listed under Ideas in the page menu (it's under Messages). Thanks in advance!
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VarunGrazitti
Boss
11 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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max limit on kudos/givers ?

I'm using the rest API to get an array of kudos givers for the posts on my community. Here's the call (having gotten the variables 'board' and 'message_id' previously using coreNode.id) <#assign kudos_givers = rest("/boards/id/"+board+"/messages/id/"+message_id+"/kudos/givers/")> In most cases this works flawlwessly, but in some posts that have 60+ kudos, I'm not recieving the full list of givers. For example, I had freemarker print the size of the kudos_givers.users.user array and it's 25 givers where the post stats say there are 83. Is there a size limit on the array or am I doing something wrong?

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dementad

Genius

11 years ago

If your community allows weighted kudos... you could have 25 users with 83 kudos.

Otherwise, you may have to specify a page size. From the kudos API:

Parameter Type Possible Values Description

page_size (optional)	int		The size of the page to be returned. When displaying threads, we recommend showing no more than 25 threads per page. Specify a number from 5 to 1000.
page (optional)	int		The 1-based index of the page to be returned.

Re: freemarker error handling in rest api
that did it, thanks!
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freemarker error handling in rest api
I'm using the rest api (which is great, thanks!) to create a custom component, pulling recently solved messages from a large number of boards on my community. The rest call references boards by id, adds their messages to a giant list and then re-orders by date, serving up the 6 most recent. In testing I noticed that a typo in the board dispid would generate a freemarker template error that breaks the page: code="101" ; message="No board with the specified dispid." Everything is great and there are no errors now but I want to incorporate error handling in case somebody changes or deletes one of the (many) boards that i'm referencing in the rest call. I've tried the classic "<#if message?? && message?has_content >" test but that's too late in the process to prevent the freemarker template error. What can I do to test if the board id exists in the community before i use the rest api call? Thanks!
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PaoloT
Lithium Alumni (Retired)
12 years ago
Hi id-chalmers

have you tried with the attempt / recover freemarker directive?

<#attempt> <#assign board = rest("boards/id/iDoNotExist").board /> <#recover> Something went wrong </#attempt>

Hope it helps
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Re: Question involving working with components
Thanks Both look promising. To bad the announcements can't be treated like the 'custom content' feature. I ended up just including the whole component in my custom one using the xml tag, and I used css to hide all the chrome. Smelly - I know - but it works!
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Question involving working with components
(In regards to this article) Is there an easy way to bring in only the contents of a standard component from inside a custom component? I'm bringing the announcements component inside another custom component: <@component id="common.widget.announcement" /> It's being brought in complete with wrapper divs and header title. I'd like to bring in just the contents. Can this be done by passing a paramerter as suggested here ? Thanks!
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VarunGrazitti
Boss
12 years ago
I don't think pulling in only content from announcements is feasble but if you just want to get the announcements text, you could use a workaround, like using the Custom Content in admin and then call it inside the Custom Component in studio using rest call.
e.g. if you're using custom content 1 in admin to store the announcements text, use following call in your costom component.

<#assign cc1_text= restadmin("/settings/name/customcontent.1_text/").value>

Or other workaround might be, to override the announcements component, this might help you what you're looking for.

http://community.lithium.com/t5/Community-FAQs/Using-override-to-change-core-components/ta-p/61358

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Re: using freemarker to get window.top
Hi Nathan Thanks, that would work if i were only loading the iframe once, however I need to detect when the page is still in the iframe even after the user navigates around the embedded site using internal links. In that case the referrer is no longer from the iframe. I guess it's not surprising that freemarker would not have access to the DOM since it operates on the server and has already done its work by the time the window is loaded into the frame. Thanks anyway Chris
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Freemarker access to custom content title?

Re: Which Page template is used for new ideas?

Which Page template is used for new ideas?

max limit on kudos/givers ?

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freemarker error handling in rest api

Re: Question involving working with components

Question involving working with components

Re: using freemarker to get window.top