Accessing template tags in a Header template tag

Posted on 02/08/2010 16:52:02

Hi there,

Is it possible to use a template tag inside the EmptyLoopStart and EmptyLoopEnd tags?

I am trying this code:

<h2><!- -@CategoryName- -></h2>
<!- -@LoopStart(ItemsLoop)- ->
<!- -@EmptyLoopStart- ->No articles found in <!- -@CategoryName- -><!- -@EmptyLoopEnd- ->

- - Other code here

<!- -@LoopEnd(ItemsLoop)- ->

And the name of the category appears correctly, but isn't parsed when the loop is empty.

Any way around this? Note: I replaced double dashes with dash space dash to make sure this code is not parsed by the forum.

Kind regards,

Imar

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Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 04/08/2010 10:04:44

That is not possible.

I do not even think you can make template tags available in the empty loop section. I've TFS'ed it as an enhancement request.

Nicolai Høeg Pedersen

Posted on 04/08/2010 10:07:00

Come to think of it...

You can do something ugly like this:

t = new template(...)
t2 = t.Getloop(...)
while something
t2.settag("")
t2.commit
end while

t3 = new template(t.output)
t3.settag("GlobalInLoopTemplateTag", "value")
return t3.output()

Posted on 04/08/2010 10:20:08

Ugly: maybe. A nice work around: certainly ;-)

Couln't find a constructor on Template that accepts the HTML (just a path), but it works when I directly assign the HTML:

Dynamicweb.Templatev2.Template t3 = new Templatev2.Template();
t3.Html = listTemplate.Output();
t3.SetTag("MyGlobalTag", "Some Value");
return t3.Output();

Now all I need to do is figure out how to do this in a nested loop where the inner loop may be empty....

Thanks,

Imar

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Accessing template tags in a Header template tag

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