How to reset page navigation component to render the content items from first page in IBM WCM

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…

What is a render parameter in IBM WCM and how it is related to the Plugin RenderParam?

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…

How to detect user devices: smartphone, tablet or desktop in IBM WCM 8.5 using tags

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…

How to know the Authoring Template’s name in IBM WCM 8

This is the simplest way to obtain the Authoring Template’s name in IBM WCM 8 (it also, apply for WCM 7), you can use this meta-tag and render the name easily: [Property context=”autofill” type=”content” field=”authtemplatename”] Another properties authtemplateid – Displays the GUID of the authoring template used by the current content item. authtemplatename – Displays the…

How to integrate a video player in WCM 8 (authoring template + presentation template + flowplayer resources)

When you need to integrate a video player on IBM Web Content Manager, probably you will not find very much documentation, for this reason today I would like to explain how to integrate one of the nicest video players available at this moment; I am talking about Flowplayer. Flowplayer is an HTML5 based player but…