Extending the DynamicContent Designer widget with new proper

Posted by Community Admin on 04-Aug-2018 19:18

Extending the DynamicContent Designer widget with new properties

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Posted by Community Admin on 17-Nov-2017 00:00

Greetings,

I've created a Dynamic Module, similar to Blogs, called CompanyNews.  I'd like to extend the designer widget to include a new field called "Content Box Title", which would be used in the ListView template.

I've found some older examples, but nothing that is more recent that 2012.  

How can I achieve this in version 10.2?  Specifically looking for MVC examples.

TIA!

-Lee

Posted by Community Admin on 17-Nov-2017 00:00

Oh. One of the examples I found is at Example Found Here.  But it talks about modifying the Toolbox.config, which my project does not appear to have.

-Lee

Posted by Community Admin on 17-Nov-2017 00:00
Posted by Community Admin on 20-Nov-2017 00:00

Hi Jonathan,

Yes, I did come across that article, but the DynamicContent type seems to be a bit more...Dynamic. :) I can't find the related designer view at all in my project.  I did find it on GitHub, but it seems that I would have to override the controller for ALL dynamic content in order to achieve this.  Seems a bit extreme.

 

I just want to be able to set some text for an instance of a widget on a page, and then pick up that text in the widget template and use it. In this case it will be used as the title for the HTML portlet that will contain the actual dynamic content.  If there's another way to achieve this I'm open to that as well.

Thanks,

Lee

Posted by Community Admin on 21-Nov-2017 00:00

Can you use a custom widget? What functions beside setting a 'Title' do you need on the widget level?

Posted by Community Admin on 21-Nov-2017 00:00

Hi Jonathan.  I probably could use a custom widget, but I would be recreating the functionality of the default DynamicContent designer widget.  I'm hoping for a low level of effort for something that seems like a fairly trivial ask. 

I've even contemplated repurposing the MetaTitle property in the designer widget, but haven't really investigated how to pick up it's value programmatically and what unexpected impact it might have.

Posted by Community Admin on 21-Nov-2017 00:00

The MetaTitle Property is used for mapping a custom 'Field/Property' to display in detail view for OG meta tags. So setting it to 'Year' would display the year as the OG meta title in detail view, probably not what you want to do.

Would the user putting a content block right above the widget work for your content needs? What would be the benefit of controlling it in the widget?

I am not saying it's not possible to trying to understand the need.

Posted by Community Admin on 21-Nov-2017 00:00

Take a look at the Portlets in this Bootstrap theme.

Metronic Admin 3

My goal is to have a list of my DynamicContent items be displayed inside one of these portlets.  The benefit of making the Title property configurable would be that I might want to display "Company News" on one page, "IT News" on another page, and "Human Capital News" on another.  They're drawing from the same DynamicContent type, just filtering by the parent item. 

I also considering just getting the parent item of the first detail item in the list and displaying it's Title value, however in some cases the list will be made up of items from multiple types, so that paradigm won't always work.

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