Questions tagged [dwt]
Dreamweaver Templating is an approach to creating presentational layout using Template Expression Language. A Dreamweaver Template is a type of Template Building Block used to construct Compound Templates (aka Modular Templates). It usually contains HTML.
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Adding code comments to DWT
I don't see there being any official way to add comments into the DWT building blocks in tridion, but i've come across a situation where i'd really like to add them without having them appear in the ...
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Ordinal position of a Component Presentation in a DWT
I am looking for a way to generate a CSS Id for a Component Presentation, which is guaranteed to be unique within the scope of the page. My initial thought is to make use of the ordinal position of ...
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Are there any sources of good study materials for SDL Tridion 2011 templating?
I have been working in SDL Tridion 2011 writing C# Template Building Blogs and Dream Weaver Templates.
So far, everything I have learned has been either with help from more senior developers OR by ...
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DWT Page Template Title Syntax
An easy few points for someone, I hope!
I want to get the Page Template title in my DWT template. I could knock up a quick C# TBB, but it seems like I should be able to do it without.
I have tried:
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Get StructureGroup ID in Dreamweaver
I was wondering if this is possible? Have tried following cases:
Page.OrganizationalItem.ID @@Page.OrganizationalItem.ID@@
Page.Context.OrganizationalItem.ID @@Page.Context.OrganizationalItem.ID@@
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Publish Binary File in a MM Link Field
I try to think about what is the best practice of publishing binary file in a MM link field without coding like in the DW Template.
The background of this question is that I have a couple of on/off ...
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NOT condition in Tridion Dreamweaver Template (DWT)
This is fairly simple:
<!-- TemplateBeginIf cond="Component.Key=='TrackingTag'" -->
. . .
<!-- TemplateEndIf -->
However, I'm stuck with reverse condition. For example in C# we usually ...
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Adding anchors to links in DWT
How do we add anchor links in Tridion DWT? We have a scenario where we have about 10 "teaser" type components on a page that should link to the relevant "full content" on another page.
Using:
<a ...
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IFunctionSource functions for DWT in Razor?
We are working on Tridion 2011 SP1 and we always used DWT (Dreamweaver templates). We have a huge collection of usefull custom functions that we are using accross various dreaweaver templates.
Due to ...
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Condition Sentence for Nested multiple Embeddable Link Field
I'm trying to implement Condition Sentence for nested multiple embeddable link field in the DW Tempate.
But in the 1st Repeat sentence, I can't judge if the 2nd embeddable link field is empty or not.
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DWT Syntax TemplateBeginIf & TemplateRepeatIndex
I am pushing keywords onto the package with keys like
Keyword1Title
and pulling them out in my DWT using
@@Keyword{$TemplateRepeatIndex}Title@@
The problem is I want to test the contents of ...
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Tridion 2009 DWT How to know if a checkbox field is checked?
Does anyone knows how to check from a dreamweaver template if a checkbox field is checked or not?
Thanks in advance
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DWT GetFieldMetadata Function
I just came across these built in functions for obtaining page metadata here:
https://code.google.com/p/tridion-practice/wiki/BuiltInFunctionsForUseInHtmlTemplates
For example: !GetFieldMetadata("...
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XPM inline editing of Multi-valued field inside a multi-valued embedded field
I have a schema with a multi-valued embedded field, which further have multi-valued text field. Need to loop through the embedded field first and then loop through the multi-valued text field - using ...
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DW Template for implementing multiple text field in component link field
I'd like to know how to implement multiple text field in component link field.
My situation is
Component A has a single component link field "Note1".
"Note1" field has a value of a Note Component.
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How can I split an email address by the '@' sign using DWT?
I would like to split the email address across two separate lines, ie left of the @ and right of the @inclusive, i am using Dreamweaver templates. (Tridion Version 2009), Thank you
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How do I access a metadata field on my multimedia component from within my Dreamweaver template?
I have a multimedia component. The multimedia component implements the "image" schema, and the image schema defines an "AltText" field on the "Metadata Design" tab. The alt text field is marked as "...
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Access TemplateRepeatIndex inside DWT Conditional
I have a multi-valued embedded schema containing a text field and a multi-valued component link. I am currently using the common get linked components TBB to add the components to the package, but due ...
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Tridion Razor RenderComponentPresentation
have you ran into the problem when defining a template in a component query?
When using DWT my call looked like this
<!-- TemplateBeginRepeat name="allItemsInFolder" -->
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Is it possible to compare two string in DWT
I have some requirement where i have to compare two string values in DWT code like below
<!-- TemplateBeginIf cond="'title' == 'title'" -->
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<!-- TemplateEndIf -->
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Unable to resolve links using DreamWeaver Templating
We are using the following line of code in our DreamWeaver Template to resolve a link in Tridion. But,not getting the desired output, the link is not being resolved on the page. Is there anything ...
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Get TemplateRepeatIndex out of TemplateBeginRepeat
I have the code above in a DWT and what I need is to put in the "X" the number of elements that I have. So the final TemplateRepeatIndex + 1 and it should be in the DWT if it is possible.
Does anyone ...
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DWT Condition with FieldPath
With a DWT, how to test if an embedded schema field has a value in a condition? The following code does not work and breaks on the TemplateBeginIf condition. Is this possible with a DWT?
<...
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How to handle custom anchors in DWT?
I want to be able to use custom anchors for my Tridion project that is publishing aspx pages. So not the 1, 2, 3 etc when using tridion:anchor="true". The reason for that is that we want to use ...
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Get Extension cannot find repeat index in Workflow item
I'm in the process of implementing Workflow, but am running into trouble with a particular template. Here's the test case:
Created new image component – chimp2 – Save & Close
Goto content ...
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@@Page.Id@@ in Page Template not pulling tcmid
I've inserted @@Page.Id@@ into a page template and published pages that use this template, but when viewing the source of the page after publishing, no tcmid is shown.
Any idea why this is not ...
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Unable to resolve the internal links along with use of RenderComponentPresentation() in the anchor tag
I have tried the following code in a DWT and the internal link (tridion:href= "@@Links0.Fields.link@@") does not get resolved.
<a onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', '@@Links0.Metadata.ga_category@@...
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Tridion 2013 - Using dreamweaver template language
I have a question about DWT in Tridion 2013.
I have a component with field (RTF) "Description". In Tridion 2009 I wrote @@Component.Description@@ and I got a content from this field. But when I try ...
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Publishing an item in Workflow through a nested RenderComponentPresentation not showing changes in Workflow
We have a Component Template that uses @@RenderComponentPresentation(CID,CTID)@@ from Dreamweaver mediator on linked Component and a Component Template ID that is pulled from the Component metadata.
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How do I add a rel attribute to the URL of a component link?
I just noticed the title of the question has been updated. I'm not sure you understand what i'm looking for. Maybe i was not clear enough.
In a DWT i have the following block of code:
<div class=...
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Render multivalued Multimedia Component link with metadata in DWT
I have Component with multivalued Multimedia Component link field named "list". Each Multimedia Component has its own metadata ("thumbnail" and "altText"). I need to write a DWT TBB to extract those ...
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How to read ther default value from the schema through DWT
Created Embedded schema which is multivalue have the fields like style tag which is a keyword and passed the default value as H1 for it and this schema is embedded into another schema.
Created ...
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How to display the component only once?
Iam working on tridion templating and i have 2 components associated with the same component template.I want to display one at the top and one at the bottom.How should I do that? If i use the below ...
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Should RenderComponentField work on any Component in the Package?
When trying to figure out an error in Template Builder for EnableInlineEditingUI: Unable to determine the definition for field I realized we simply had the wrong component and schema. But I'm trying ...
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How can I check if field is null or empty in DWT?
I'm making a DWT component template that loops multivalued componentlinked components. I want to check if a textfield in a linked component is empty, but it always gives errors. I need to use the ...
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Retrieve list values in DWT template
In my package, i have a list of TcmUri which sometimes contains valid TcmUri but also fake TcmUri such as tcm:0-0-0.
slideshareList is the name of my list.
I need to write something like this :
<!...
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Render component template from link to component field [tridion 2009]
In the schema of a component A, there is a "link to component B" field. I want to retrieve the template of that component B in my component A template.
I tried the following but it does not work:
<...
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Displaying a variable value in DWT, getting error says variable value has not been declared
I have a compound template that contains 2 C# TBB and 1 Dreamweaver template.
First TBB generates an xml from selected component, second TBB takes xpath and return a string value from the xml ...
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CSS background image issue | Inline CSS style property url() not resolving image | background-image:url()
While defining style properties inline in DWT code , the Default Finish Actions TBB ( Containing Link Resolver TBB ) was NOT able to resolve the url of image contained in style property:
background-...
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XPM inline editing - add new value in a multi-valued embedded field
I am facing an issue while adding new value in a multi-valued embedded field in XPM.
In case of adding new value after last value of multi value field, it replaces the last value with new one.
For ...
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Dreamweaver rendering single component presentation
I am trying to render a particular Dreamweaver component template. can anyone help me with the script to display a particular component presentation.
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Tridion 2011 - Dreamweaver Template skips HTML Comments
I have been trying to output the XPM page tags from a C# TBB but for some reason the Dreamweaver Engine does not allow me to output HTML Comments.
Example:
I have the following HTML Comment code ...
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2 DWT Tridion 2013 questions
Not sure if I can post my questions here, please tell me where to move my question if necessary...
1) I added to a page a custom metadata schema. In that schema, there is an embedded component field '...
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Issue with SetVariable and GetVariable method calls from DWT
I have written a DWT which is creating an XML as below:-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><episodes><episode>
<episode_id>EPS_7208_7205_56</episode_id>
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How to insert the tcm id of the page into the page source in Tridion
How do I go about retrieving the page's tcm id and insert it as a comment in the page source using a Dreamweaver Template?
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Is it possible to push a custom array through package variable from .Net TBB to DWT and iterate the loop in DWT?
I know it is possible to send ComponentArray but here i need to pass a dummy array to create a collection loop in DWT. Am unable to pass dummy componentArray as it throws item not found error. Any ...
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Rendering Image using DWT
I have a component source xml as below:
<image_227x140>
<img style="width: 227px; height: 140px;" alt="alttext" title="IA_Offer2" xlink:href="tcm:382-26496" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/...
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Use of a tcmUri list in component template
I have another problem with a list of TcmUris I pushed to the package and try to use.
I'm trying to render the different components whom ids are in the list "slideshareList" with their common ...
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Read metadata of multi level nested embedded schema field(multimedia link)
I am writing a DWT in which i need to read metadata of multimedia component added in a component. following is the component structure.
<content>
<level1>
<level2>
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Structure groups hierarchy to be used for parent child relationship
I have a scenario where I have components with parent-child relationship. For instance, a news can have multiple child news component.
The pages for each news will be created under its parent news.
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