Nested items and Presentation Templates

Hello,

I have a question about using nested items and the presentation template. The following is a section of code from my datacapture.cfg:

<item name="Departments">
<replicant min="1" max="10" hide-name="t">
<item name="Department Name">
<text maxlength="50" size="50" />
</item>
<item name="Department Description">
<textarea cols="50" external-editor="visualformat" external-editor-config="what_we_do.xml"/>
</item>
</replicant>
</item>

The template works fine, but when I try to insert a specific nested item (say "Department Name") into my presentation template, I can't get it to work. Does anyone know if there is a way to use specific items (nested items) in a presentation template?

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MattP

Remove the spaces from the item names and give it a shot. It should be referenced as..

dcr.departments.department_name (case sensitive, remove the spaces).

Matt

Matthew Petitjean
BOC Group
Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA

akshathp

Also please post the code from your tpl to verify the call.

Akshat Pramod Sharma

Adam Stoller

Unfortunately (IMO), all too often people are coding their DCTs with descriptive names (including spaces) for the items, rather than using simple names and descriptive labels - so it's quite possible that the space shown in the code is correct as per the DCT - though it looks really bad in terms of the code.

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

jbonifaci

Spaces in item names are fine, unless the code accessing them is written poorly.