Include javascript that requires $PAGE_LINK

Hendrik2

Hi Experts,

 

Version: 7.4.1 (Solaris)

 

Rolling out an entirely new site using sitepublisher. The HTML that comes from the designer contains javascript codes that contain links to other page in the site. 

 

I understand that in order for TeamSite preview to work, we have to replace all this with $PAGE_LINK[pagename] and let the XSL transformation do the work of transforming the token.

 

For those javascripts that require changes to use $PAGE_LINK, we have to either 'include inline in the component' OR 'include as an external XSL'. These are the only ways that I know of so that the XSL transformation takes place.

 

We prefer the external XSL approach as the javascripts are shared by many pages in the site.

 

This means that we cannot use the page settings on the page editor to include Javascript file, in the normal way that we include JS in a page. And another downside is that if we use the external XSL approach, it does not get attached automatically via workflow for deployment.

 

Has anyone faced similar problem like this? Appreciate if anyone can share some pointers if we have missed out any other approach. Thanks.

Rick Poulin

I'm assuming the target of those pagelinks is known ahead of time?

 

If so, I'd put this in a precontroller that injects these values as variables in your <head/>, before your Javascript gets executed. The alternative is if you have a component that is used on all pages (e.g. the header) you can have that component print it. Or if you only have a single site on the platform, you could put it in the master XSL but that's not really scalable.

 

In the end, you wouldn't want to generate the JS. Instead, you're generating something like

<script>

var helpPage = "$PAGE_LINK[help]";

var otherPage = "$PAGE_LINK[other]";

</script>

and then changing your JS file to reference those variables instead of using literal strings.