using the same container in different DCTs...

Hello friends,

I have a container( with items like textbox, radio item and select list), which is common in all the five DCTs that I have.The data stays the same for all the 5 DCTs,so same entry needs to be made 5 times making things error prone and boring.

Now my query is can I think of creating a separate DCT for this and do an inline in other DCTs?I guess I can't since inline required outermost element to be "substitution".

Can anyone suggest about a good solution?I don't want user to manually create the XML for inline.

Regards,
Mav

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Sailesh

Hello friends,

I have a container( with items like textbox, radio item and select list), which is common in all the five DCTs that I have.The data stays the same for all the 5 DCTs,so same entry needs to be made 5 times making things error prone and boring.

Now my query is can I think of creating a separate DCT for this and do an inline in other DCTs?I guess I can't since inline required outermost element to be "substitution".

Can anyone suggest about a good solution?I don't want user to manually create the XML for inline.

Regards,
Mav

Best bet would be to have a inline call to you container. YOu can have the complete structure in your ipl and dump it in your dct. Substitution would not harm your structure and that is for Teamsite to know that it has to substitute the entire tags into a dct.

curiousmaverick

I need that same container with same data in all dcrs that i can create from 5 DCTs....Hope that clears thngs to u?

Adam Stoller

I need that same container with same data in all dcrs that i can create from 5 DCTs....Hope that clears thngs to u?

I think the comment was essentially - that you should ignore the substitution element in your decision making process. That element is a wrapper for the contents to be inserted into the calling DCT - it does not remain after the inclusion has been completed.

So if you create an include script that prints out:

begin-substitution
    full-def-of-item-1
    full-def-of-item-2
    full-def-of-item-3
end-substitution

and you run it via the include tag within any DCT (in an appropriate location based on the replacement value) - then you'll get those N (3 in above case) items inserted in place of the include statement when the DCT is rendered. The substitution element disappears as part of the inclusion.

nipper

I need that same container with same data in all dcrs that i can create from 5 DCTs....Hope that clears thngs to u?

I know this was posted before, but if the answer was not understood, use something like this:

[html]

[/html]

where container.ipl pushed out the XML required to share the container.

curiousmaverick

The picture is something like this,I have seven DCTs.All of them have a parcontainer which is same for each DCT.Now the requirement is such that, whenever i create a DCR and fill up the value for that particular container, the same value goes in for all the other DCRs created from rest of the six DCTs.This makes me to enter the the same set of value for the container again and again for different DCRs created from different DCTs.

Now is there a scenario here where I may separate that container, create a DCT for it and in generation time , I generate the page from multiple DCRs?

Regards,
Mav

Adam Stoller

The picture is something like this,I have seven DCTs.All of them have a parcontainer which is same for each DCT.Now the requirement is such that, whenever i create a DCR and fill up the value for that particular container, the same value goes in for all the other DCRs created from rest of the six DCTs.This makes me to enter the the same set of value for the container again and again for different DCRs created from different DCTs.

Now is there a scenario here where I may separate that container, create a DCT for it and in generation time , I generate the page from multiple DCRs?

Regards,
Mav

Short answer - yes - there is documentation and KB articles about the ability to generate pages from multiple DCRs - seek and ye shall [hopefully] find.

curiousmaverick

Thanks Ghoti, I'll go through your sample code suggested in another thread.

Regards,
Mav