In context edit - multiple DCR elements

Hi everybody,
I have more complicated ideas of using in-context-edit but I did not find any solutions yet. I hope you can help with that. Here is a challenge:
I have an Image component in my LiveSite project.
This image component has several attributes that I want users to edit using in-context-editing.
Attributes are – they all come from DCR:
- Path – datum type=File – to select an image from existing images on the LiveSite server
- Title – datum type=String – to enter image title and ALT
- URL – datum type=File – to enter URL or select site’s page on the server
- Target – datum type=RadioGroup – to select TARGET in which window next page open
I was able to get only one of these attributes – Title using

My Component

.
I am struggling to make all above attributes editable. I heard that I can put multiple paths to dcr-item-paths with comma separated but I tried it without any success.
I will appreciate any help. Thank you in advance.
Oleg D

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kalai

Hi everybody,
I have more complicated ideas of using in-context-edit but I did not find any solutions yet. I hope you can help with that. Here is a challenge:
I have an Image component in my LiveSite project.
This image component has several attributes that I want users to edit using in-context-editing.
Attributes are – they all come from DCR:
- Path – datum type=File – to select an image from existing images on the LiveSite server
- Title – datum type=String – to enter image title and ALT
- URL – datum type=File – to enter URL or select site’s page on the server
- Target – datum type=RadioGroup – to select TARGET in which window next page open
I was able to get only one of these attributes – Title using
My Component
.
I am struggling to make all above attributes editable. I heard that I can put multiple paths to dcr-item-paths with comma separated but I tried it without any success.
I will appreciate any help. Thank you in advance.
Oleg D

Are you trying to achieve the incontext editing for all items(Target, URL, Alt) when user do in-context edit for changing the image?

Put all your items in one container and enable the in-context editing for the container rather than doing the individual items.

Thanks and Regards
Kalai

olegdelev

Hi Kalai,
Thank you for your reply. I was able to enable in-context-edit for entire container with all these items. But I thought if there is a way to work with individual items in DCR and enable just them. I have some components in my project with huge DCRs but only few DCR items should be actually editable. That is why I am looking for a way to accomplish that. Do you think it is possible? I read somewhere that items can be added to dcr-item-paths attribute of the DIV or SPAN and they can be comma separated. I tried but did not get successful result.
Thanks a lot again.
Oleg

Rick Poulin

I read somewhere that items can be added to dcr-item-paths attribute of the DIV or SPAN and they can be comma separated.

That's the correct answer. e.g.
<div in-context-edit="{/path/to/first/@ID},{/path/to/second/@ID},{/path/to/third/@ID}">

olegdelev

That's the correct answer. e.g.
<div in-context-edit="{/path/to/first/@ID},{/path/to/second/@ID},{/path/to/third/@ID}">

Thank you, Rick for your help.

I used this comma separated paths for non-DCR datums in my components and this method works fine. The problem starts when I want to enable in-context-edit for DCR type datum, specifically to enable individual DCR items not a whole DCR.

Here is my DCT XML for example (I want context-edit only Path, Height, Width items):

<container name="Content">
<item name="Path" pathid="Path">
<label>Path</label>
<browser ceiling-dir="/resources" extns="swf,SWF" initial-dir="/resources" size="80">
<callout label="Upload Flash"/>
</browser>
</item>
<item name="Height" pathid="Height">
<label>Height</label>
<text size="10" maxlength="10" />
</item>
<item name="Width" pathid="Width">
<label>Width</label>
<text size="10" maxlength="10" />
</item>
<item name="URL" pathid="URL">
<label>URL</label>
<browser ceiling-dir="/sites" extns="page" initial-dir="/sites" size="80" />
</item>
<item name="Target" pathid="Target">
<label>Target</label>
<radio>
<option label="Current Window" value="_top" selected="t" />
<option label="New Window" value="_blank" />
</radio>
</item>
<container name="Parameter" location="Parameter" min="0" max="20" default="0">
<label>Parameter</label>
<item name="Key" pathid="Key">
<label>Key</label>
<text size="20" />
</item>
<item name="Value" pathid="Value">
<label>Value</label>
<text size="60" />
</item>
</container>
</container>

Here is my XSL (snippet) with DIV for context-edit that brings entire DCR and it works:

<div in-context-edit="{/Properties/Data/Datum[@Name='Flash DCR']/@ID}" dcr-item-paths="/Root/Content">
MY COMPONENT
</div>

Here is my XSL (snippet) with DIV for context-edit that I tried for individual DCR items and it does not work:

<div in-context-edit="{/Properties/Data/Datum[@Name='Flash DCR']/@ID}" dcr-item-paths="/Root/Content/Path,/Root/Content/Height,/Root/Content/Width">
MY COMPONENT
</div>

Do you think is it possible to create comma separated list of DCT items in dcr-item-paths DIV attribute?

Please advise and if you have samples somewhere I would appreciate it.

Many thanks in advance.
Oleg

Adam Stoller

Looking at the example on page 82 of the ts_72_spdev_en_rev1.pdf - it looks as though you want someting like:[php][/php]This is purely a guess based on the docs and what's been discussed here already - I am not in a position to test any of this out.

olegdelev

Looking at the example on page 82 of the ts_72_spdev_en_rev1.pdf - it looks as though you want someting like:[php][/php]This is purely a guess based on the docs and what's been discussed here already - I am not in a position to test any of this out.

Hi Adam,

Thank you very much for your reply. I tested your approach and it did not work. I will keep working on this to see if any other options available.

Oleg

jbonifaci

Hey Adam,

The in-context-edit attribute can only take datum xpaths, comma delimited. If you have a DCR datum and want to edit a specific field in that DCR, you have to use the dcr-item-paths attribute with it. dcr-item-paths takes the formapi xpath to the item you want to edit in the DCR from the datum. However, it only appears to work with 1 DCR item path, even though the attribute is called dcr-item-paths.

I've tried many combinations of possible delimiters in dcr-item-paths to try to get it to work with more than 1, but none of them do.

I actually have a support case open with Autonomy to answer this and have had no luck yet.

~Jeff