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Jun 23, 2012

How to get default components in your parsys

Posted by Feike Visser

This blogpost will cover a frequently asked question : "how can I default components in my parsys?". This is often in the use case that you want to present to the author already a pre-defined structure, but still want to have the flexibility to move or delete the components.

Geometrixx template

Let's first look at a Geometrixx template and use that template to add default components to the parsys.

When you go the this url (http://localhost:4502/siteadmin#/content/geometrixx/en) you can create a new page of the type 'Geometrixx Content Page'

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When you open the page you see the parsys area where the author can drag/drop new components on to the page.

For this example I am going to drop two Text components on to the page and will enter some text into the components.


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Nodes

After added the components, go to CRXDELite to inspect the nodes added to your content-page. You see that with the "par" node, two nodes are added for the two text components.

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Template

When you expand the template (/apps/geometrixx/templates/contentpage) we are using you see that by default it already contains the jcr:content node.

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Here comes the trick

Copy the "par" node from your content page to the template, after this you see the same node structure in your template as you had in the content page.

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Create a new page

When you now create a new page based on this 'Geometrixx Content Page' template the nodes will be copied from the template to the page.

When you now open the new page you see the two components in the parsys, and they behave exactly as when they were added by an author

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Feike Visser (twitter: @heervisscher)

COMMENTS

  • By Alan - 10:25 PM on Jul 06, 2012   Reply
    Is there a way to include default components in a parsys programmatically via the templates?
  • By Jim - 6:14 PM on Jul 11, 2012   Reply
    Thanks for the useful trick - I'll use it for one of the request our clients desired.
  • By Moses` - 12:46 PM on Sep 11, 2012   Reply
    Hi.. this works for static components but mine is populated dynamically.. any ideas for that
  • By Moses - 11:37 AM on Sep 12, 2012   Reply
    How do i make the default components come below the parsys?
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    Let's first look at a Geometrixx template and use that template to add default components to the parsys.
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    Let's first look at a Geometrixx template and use that template to add default components to the parsys.