Title, Title, Title and Title

Hi,

I'm trying to rewrite a pagepart that handles navigation on our site and am running into a small problem.

The problem is that the current navigation uses plain text to describe the link when you hover over it using ${subPageCurrent.title}.

This title is used for SEO on our website so we can't change this title, we're trying to pull the info from the other title field but I keep getting "javax.el.PropertyNotFoundException: Property 'FriendlyURLTitle' not found" errors.

I've gone through the API and I can't get any of the mentioned title fields to work, for some reason it only works when I use ${subPageCurrent.title}.

I've tried FriendlyURLTitle, HTMLTitle, NavigationTitle, with and without .page. and some other variations that "should" work but I keep getting error 500's that the property was not found. Maybe I'm calling it wrong, the last things I tried was looking it up as ${subPageCurrent.page.FriendlyURLTitle}.

Can someone explain to me what all these different title's mean and where they are coming from? Our installation only has 2 title fields on the pages and they appear to not be the ones mentioned in the API since only .title works and nothing else

Thanks in advance for any help,

Dennis

Dennis, please try navigationTitle; if i'm correct camelcase should do the trick

In addition to Peter, the trick behind it is the following:

1. On http://connect.gxsoftware.com/api/webmanager/javadoc/index.html?nl/gx/... you'll find all methods that are supported.

2. search for what you want.
e.g. getFriendlyURLTitle()
or getHtmlTitle()
or getNavigationTitle()
or getTitle()
or getUrlTitle()

3. To use this in JSP: remove the 'get' or 'is' and lowercase the next letter, and remove the ().
e.g. friendlyURLTitle
e.g. htmlTitle
etc.

now you'll have ${pageVersion.htmlTitle}, which should work :).
(note: it's the pageVersion that has a title, a Page object does not have a title!)


So, that's the trick with the correct camelcase.


More information about this standard JSP behaviour, you can find at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jstl0211.html#N10227.

More information about what titles you can use is available in http://connect.gxsoftware.com/Software/Documentation.htm#GXD0016

- title - the title of the page/media item itself.
- navigationtitle - (pages only) the page‘s navigation title. This is the default setting for creating the url's.
- urltitle - the page/media item‘s URL title (only visible for editors if enabled, see GXD0016)

I noticed you try to get a 'page' from PageVersion's getSubPagesWithCurrent(), but that already returns an array of pages.

Just as a handy tip:

Try to start from the presentationcontext top object, this is the only object your page-part (and any other presentation) always has.

<c:set var="pages" value="${presentationcontext.pageVersion.subPagesWithCurrent}"/> should give you an array of page-objects that are published and marked as 'show in navigation'. On this array you can do ${page.current.title} in a forEach loop that sets (var) page on all (items) pages.

You can also check out the Community Edition Style navigation.jspf for more examples. And you are, of course, always welcome at the Design Fundamentals course.

Thanks Peter and William.

It works now with subPageCurrent.navigationTitle but when trying with pageVersion it gives the same error. It's odd though because in the same jspf we're using ${((fn:startsWith(pageVersion.labels[labelPageVersionNum]... to determine if you're on a specific logged in page to highlight that page in the site navigation.

A colleague allready offered to look at it because he also found it odd

Thanks again,

Dennis

PS I'm having a hard time posting this reply, this is the third time I'm trying to post it, I hope the forum cooperates this time.

Hi Dennis,

I wonder too. Please let us know what was going on ;)

p.s. The forum should be fixed now.