Dynamically Applying CSS on VFE content in DCR/DCT

KTReddy

The requirement is our client wants to change the CSS(style sheet) in VFE text area
in DCT. When they type the text or copy and paste the content in VFE text area, CSS should apply on it.
Each and every branch has seperate CSS file in workarea and we want to maintain only one visualformatconfig.xml file
(i.e., we are not interested to create multiple visualformatconfig.xml files for every branch just because of CSS.
Few questions as follows:
1. Is there anyway to pass CSS file name as parameter to visualformatconfig.xml file call in text area tag in DCT?
So that we can have limited number of visualformatconfig.xml files and many CSS files.
2. According to tst.vf.600.dev.pdf manual page 227, I updated datacapture.cfg as follows, is this the right call?

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE data-capture-requirements SYSTEM "datacapture6.0.dtd">

<data-capture-requirements type="content" name="genericContent">
<ruleset name="genericContent">
<description>
This template will be used for Generic Content
</description>
<item name="ContentInfo">
<label>Content</label>
<replicant default="1" min="1" max="10" hide-name="f">
<item name="SectionHeading">
<label>Section Heading</label>
<description> Enter Section Heading, if desired.</description>
<text size="50" required="f" maxlength="250" />
</item>
<item name="SectionContent">
<label>Section Content</label>
<description> Enter the content for this section. Click plus[+] to add a section. </description>
<textarea rows="15" cols="60" wrap="virtual" required="f" external-editor="visualformat" external-editor-config="/iw/config/visualformatconfig_nofont.xml"/>
</item>
</replicant>
</item>
<script>
strEditorName = IWDatacapture.getUser();
strCss = "../../../intraents/oit/intranet_styles.css";
function loadStyleSheet(strEditorName)
{
eWebEditPro.instances[strEditorName].editor.addLinkedStyleSheet(strCss);
}
function setStyleSheet(strEditorName, strCSS)
{
eWebEditPro.instances[strEditorName].editor.setProperty("StyleSheet", strCSS);
}
</script>

</ruleset>
</data-capture-requirements>

3. Without changing the visualformatconfig.xml, is there any way to handle this kind of issues???
Any suggestions please..

Migrateduser

Your syntax looks dead on. As I understand, you're basically interested in setting a variable from within the DCT / FormAPI and referencing it from ewebeditpro.js, correct? In this case, your code looks as though it'll do just that.

I had another thought, too... if you didn't want the slight overhead of setting the strCss variable in your DCT's, you could have a CSS for each branch (as you need them), named appropriately, and have ewebeditpro.js do some string manipulation on a hidden form value that TeamSite already injects in your DCT that displays what workarea you're in (the field name is "area_path") and call the CSS based on that.

Dave

Current Environments:
(1) TS 6.5 on W2K3 (x2 - diff. imp.)
(3) Vignette V7 Portal on Solaris 9