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Dialog property retrieval on page via sightly

  • February 8, 2016
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Hi All.

Doubt as below :

In component.html, we have a section as below :

<div class="col-xs-12 col-md-6" data-sly-test="${currentPage.title}">

<a href="something.pdf" class="icon-link doc_link_more"><span data-fi-lb>View  ${currentPage.title}</span></a>

  </div>

1] Here if I try with the above, it works fine and getting me the page title value.

2] However, if I try with another custom property at the page jcr:content level[i.e, at sme level where title is present] and of type "String" only, it is not displaying anything.

3] Also, there are couple of dialog properties[of type "String"] that I have to retrieve, which is also not coming up on the page.

Any thoughts/pointers on this will be really helpul.

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    Best answer by edubey

    Why are you trying.. "${currentPage.properties.customproperty}"

    You should use "${properties.customproperty}"

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    askdctmAuthor
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    February 9, 2016

    Hi Scott/Edubey.

    Thanks a lot for your reply.

    My bad,  "${properties.customproperty}" worked perfectly fine as mentioned by you. Somehow had missed out something while trying out initially.

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    askdctmAuthor
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    February 9, 2016

    Hi Scott/Edubey.

    Thanks a lot for your reply.

    My bad,  "${properties.customproperty}" worked perfectly fine as mentioned by you. Somehow had missed out something while trying out initially.

    smacdonald2008
    smacdonald2008
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    February 8, 2016

    OK  - we will make a second article (similiar use case) that shows use without Java - that is - getting the values without using Java and just Sightly. 

    edubey
    edubeyAccepted solution
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    February 8, 2016

    Why are you trying.. "${currentPage.properties.customproperty}"

    You should use "${properties.customproperty}"

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      askdctmAuthor
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      February 8, 2016

      Hi Scott,

      Thank you for your reply.

      Yes, I had a look at the article. There we are retrieving properties via the java code and then invoking that java code in the sightly file. With that approach it is working fine. But they want us to retrieve the property values only by making use of sightly and no Java.

      @Edubey :

      Not sure why "${currentPage.properties.customproperty}" is not working for properties at dialog level.

      Not sure what am I missing here.

       Also, there are no errors getting logged.

      smacdonald2008
      smacdonald2008
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      February 8, 2016

      Did you look at the article i posted (the 1st one) - it shows you how to retrieve the field values located in this Touch UI dialog using Sightly: 

      edubey
      edubey
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      February 8, 2016

      Same way, example

      <h1>${properties.data}</h1>

      Let me know if I misunderstood your question...

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      askdctmAuthor
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      February 8, 2016

      Hi Edubey,

      Just an update,

      If I try with data-sly-test="${currentPage.properties.customproperty}" in the above snippet. I am able to retrieve the custom property value at jcr:content level.

      But the other doubt I had was :

      #3] How do I retrieve dialog properties in the page, as the one mentioned in this post is not working.

      edubey
      edubey
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      February 8, 2016

      currentPage.title is retrieved by objects at page level.

      If you are not able to read properties saved from dialog using above suggested method.....then please see error.log as something is going wrong in your component.

      If property exist it can be easily retrieved.

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      askdctmAuthor
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      February 8, 2016

      Hi edubey,

      Thank you or your reply.

      I have posted the portion of html code that I am trying to make use of.

      Very strange, but with the option you mentioned it is not working but working only for the title property and not for others (as mentioned in the first post,, that snippet is working fine).

      Not sure where I am missing things.

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