Magnolia @cms.newBar

Question

I am creating some Magnolia templates and would like to know if any one has found a way to create a @cms.newBar and somehow use a node as the list of available paragraphs. The syntax is as below:

 [@cms.newBar newLabel="Add Content" paragraph="template1, template2" /]

I want to use the node instead to avoid having to come back and add new templates when they are created.

I have seen the docs here and know that nothing is specified but wanted to see if anyone had found a way?

Answer 1

You can do several things, all boiling down to the same:

• configure a string property containing "template1, template2", in your template definition. Assuming you're using Freemarker as the templating language, refer to it with ${def.thatProperty} (def references your template definition)

• have your model class return that value: ${model.whatsCooking}, where your model class has a method String getWhatsCooking() which returns "template1, template2" (or whatever else you could come up with that decides what paragraphs should be available

• STK does something similar to (1) - its template definitions contains Lists of "available" paragraphs, and its templates use some utility method to turn that into a comma-separated list, use with the new bar, so something like ${stk.toStringList(def.main.paragraphs)} (I can't recall the exact names and semantics, but you get the gist).

You should perhaps consider looking into STK for that, and a whole lot of things.

As for documentation, perhaps the templating guide and other docs will be more useful than the javadoc/tlddoc in this case.

HTH,