in-context-edit rendering mode

Hi,

I've been looking at the in-context editing function, using the Site Developer documentation.

All of our components are using XSL transformation mode and the example Interwoven component I'm using as reference (Basic Content) uses HTML.

So My question is can you have in-context editing with XSL based components or do they have to be HTML only?

I've included an example of a component for reference:

Appearance

<!DOCTYPE html-entities SYSTEM "http://www.interwoven.com/livesite/xsl/xsl-html.dtd">
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:include href="http://www.interwoven.com/custom/iw/xsl/InContextTest/default.xsl"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:call-template name="InContextTest" />
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Content XML

<Data>
  <External>
    <Parameters>
      <Datum ID="InContextText" Type="DCR" Name="InContextText DCR">
        <DCR Category="TestArea" Type="InContextText"/>
      </Datum>
    </Parameters>
    <Object Scope="local">com.myCompany.myExternal</Object>
    <Method>processContent</Method>
  </External>
</Data>

Many thanks

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Rick Poulin

Yes, it works just fine in XSL. You didn't exactly include the salient portion of it, but given your example data, it would look something like this:

<div in-context-edit="{/Properties/Data/External/Parameters/Datum[@Name='InContextText DCR']/@ID}"&gt;
<!-- this is where you render your DCR content -->
</div>

Danel

Hiya,

Thanks for your quick reply.

I can see the benefits and possible pits of inline editing shared DCRs (if that is possible?)

I'm just at the stage of prototyping this feature, so if you (or anyone else) knows of any gotchas I'd appreciate the heads up.

Thanks again.

Rick Poulin

Yeah, the big thing here is your users might not realize that they're affecting other pages, when that particular record is used elsewhere. Also, I ran into an issue [back in TS7.2.x, might not exist anymore] where attempting to inline-edit a DCR locked by another user caused some weird issues. Easy enough for you to test whether that's still the case though.

Danel

That's great, you've been a great help.

I'll give this a go next week and hopefully demo it to get feed back from our publishers.

Thank you.

Danel

Hi,

Sorry to return to this thread but I'm only just been able to give this a go.

Here's my xsl, this shows the contents of the test_text field in preview ok but when I click to edit I get the following message in a popup box:

No content properties are available for this component.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

    <xsl:template match="InContextTest">

       	<div in-context-edit="{/Properties/Data/External/Parameters/Datum[@Name='InContextText DCR']/@ID}"&gt;
			<xsl:value-of select="test_text" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
		</div>

    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Any help appreciated.

Cheers

Rick Poulin

I don't see anything in here that would cause that, but it would have more to do with your component XML anyway. Post your content XML and appearance XML.

Danel

The 3 boxes from my component contains:

Appearance

<!DOCTYPE html-entities SYSTEM "http://www.interwoven.com/livesite/xsl/xsl-html.dtd">
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:include href="http://www.interwoven.com/custom/iw/xsl/InContextTest/default.xsl"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="/Properties/Data/Result/ContentList/ContentItem/InContextTest" />
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Appearance XML just has:

<Properties ComponentID="1415982731549"/>

Content XML

<Data>
  <External>
    <Parameters>
      <Datum ID="InContextText" Type="DCR" Name="InContextText DCR">
        <DCR Category="TestArea" Type="InContextText"/>
      </Datum>
    </Parameters>
    <Object Scope="local">com.myCompany.myExternal</Object>
    <Method>processContent</Method>
  </External>
</Data>

default.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

    <xsl:template match="/Properties/Data/Result/ContentList/ContentItem/InContextTest">

       	<div in-context-edit="{/Properties/Data/External/Parameters/Datum[@Name='InContextText DCR']/@ID}"&gt;
			<xsl:value-of select="test_text" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
		</div>

    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Thanks again

Rick Poulin

Ah, I think the issue is that you're trying to in-context-edit the parameters of an External call. I think the mechanics of it are getting confused because it doesn't know how to reload the external after the inline edit. I've never tried, but I think you can only apply ICE to "normal" datums.

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