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Hi Rasmus

You have a space just after the : - that might be the issue, and not the space after the ,

The setting is parsed like this - the systemnames are trimmed, so should work.

settings.Split(((char)(","))).Select(Function, s, s.Trim().ToLowerInvariant());

The entire string (items-allowed:HeroRibbonItem,HeroWithTextRibbonItem;unwrap:true) is parsed by the HttpUtility.ParseQueryString method in the .net framework, so we treat your settings as a querystring key=value so key = value will not work.

So not a bug, but we could of course try to trim your spaces, but that could cause spaces that are needed to get trimmed away.

BR Nicolai

Hi Nicolai

I have also stumpled over this problem and it took me unnessecary time to figure out what was wrong. I would really prefer that I could enter values for the parameter "items-allowed" with out thinking on spaces. Couldn't you fix that. Thanks

Hi Nicolai and Lars,

It seems like there is an anomaly. This works when creating new paragraphs, but not when using them as global elements:

@Model.Placeholder("Hero",  "Hero", "items-allowed: HeroRibbonItem, HeroWithTextRibbonItem; unwrap:true")

As a user I am expecting the same result between the two operations.

Best regards,
Rasmus

Hi again,

On a sitenote, why not add some overloaded methods for the additional parameters instead of the settings string:

• items-allowed as a string array or string list.
• unwrap as a boolean
• other parameters...

This would prevent parsing entirely.

@Model.Placeholder("Hero", "Hero", new [] { "HeroRibbonItem", "HeroWithTextRibbonItem"}, true)

As a bonus it would be much easier to discover the capabilities of the method with intellisense.

Best regards,
Rasmus

Hi Rasmus

Does it work if you use the proper syntax?

BR Nicolai

@Rasmus

TFS#43399 has been introduced to give you a placegholdersettings object that can be passed as a parameter:

@{
var settings = new Dynamicweb.Frontend.PageViewModel.PlaceholderSettings();
   settings.ItemsAllowed.Add("ItemType1");
   settings.ItemsAllowed.Add("ItemType2");
   settings.LimitToTemplates.Add("template1.cshtml");
   settings.Default = true;
}

@Model.Placeholder("id", "Title", settings);

Available in 9.4 end January

Hi again,

For now this works:

@Model.Placeholder("Hero",  "Hero", "items-allowed:HeroRibbonItem,HeroWithTextRibbonItem;unwrap:true")

TFS#43399 will definately help prevent this type of defect, on our part, so that is great news :)

Thanks a lot Nicolai

Best regards,
Rasmus