The problem When working with navigation components, it is common to share the same pagination in several menu or personalization components, however this introduces an issue because when clicking on the “Next” or “Previous” page the URL is going to have a parameter with the paging state which causes the problem of keeping the page…
Today, while I was reading the IBM WCM plugins documentation I found a plugin called The render parameter plug-in, which definition is formally: Use the RenderParam rendering plug-in to access public and private render parameters from your web content. Taken from The render parameter plug-in article in IBM Knowledge Center. So, these questions came into my mind: what is it…
The problem Being able to process text using client code is useful for many reasons, for example: sometimes you want to cut text or extract specific patterns, etc. However, we usually have a issues because of special characters like line breaks (\n), let’s go back for a moment to remember how a well-formatted JavaScript variable looks:…
The challenge Imagine you want to run a kind of conditional if with a fallback (else) for example: you would like to have some custom HTML markup when there is no description set on a piece of content. Let’s see following pseudocode: IF is_There_A_Description(current_Content) DISPLAY description ELSE DISPLAY a default text So, how could we emulate this…
This is pretty simple way to check if any user has a session started or not; this is useful in cases where you want to display or execute an specific code depending on the user session. To create this kind of validation we can take advantage of the WCM plugins Equals and NotEquals [Plugin:Equals text1=”true” text2=”[Plugin:RequestAttribute key=’userLoggedIn’…
The context: why should I need to know this stuff? In the last years front-end web development has became one of the most exciting areas of IT and software development, as front-end developers we have a tone of new tools, APIs, editors, packages, etc. that make our life easier. There is an area that is…
The challenge Let’s imagine you are in a menu component in WCM, and you want to validate if some pieces of content has a very specific value in their Keywords property; in case they have it we would like to add a featured CSS class to the rendered HTML. The solution Following is an example about how to use…
The problem JSON is the current format by excellence for sending messages and getting information via web services. But we usually have a big problem because of special characters like double quotes, let’s go back for a moment to remember how a well-formatted JSON looks: { “field” : “value” } As you know, previous is a…
The challenge Imagine you want to know if there is a non-empty value in any element of a Authoring Template, because if there is no value, then a set of HTML tags should not be generated; well, maybe you could solve this problem by using a small JavaScript code, but, let’s face it, most of our…
The challenge Imagine you are in a navigation component in WCM, but you want to ignore pieces of content in an specific level of your navigator (for example ignore contents only on the second level) and display them in another level (for example, show the contents only in the third level), well, by default the…
