WCM w/DreamWeaver: Insert a Placeholder

 

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Overview

Placeholders are used to display certain information in Components such as Menus, Navigators and Taxonomy Components.

  1. From the Lotus Panel, click the Insert Placeholder button.

  2. Complete the Insert Placeholder dialog, and then click OK

Name: Determines which placeholder is being referenced:

  • Name
  • Href
  • Namelink
  • Sitepath
  • Idnum
  • Listnum
  • Treenum
  • Paddedtreenum
  • Depth
Start and End: The Start and End attributes are used to wrap the data returned by an Web Content Management Tag within other tags, such as HTML. These attributes are not mandatory. See the Using Start and End Attributes topic for more information on using these attributes.

Placeholder Types

Name This is used to display the name of the Site Area or Content being retrieved in a Menu or Navigator
HREF This inserts a link to the Page of the Site Area or Content being retrieved in a Menu or Navigator
NameLink This is a combination of the Name and HREF tags. It assembles a complete link based on the Name of the item being returned.
sitepath This is similar to the HREF placeholder except that it only display the Site path of an items URL.

E.g., an HREF placeholder tag may give you:

  • /ILWWCM/connect/metaorg/intranet/press+releases.

Whereas the site path will give you:

  • /metaorg/intranet/press+releases.
Idnum This returns the hexadecimal id value of an item. This can be used when creating static URLs in Menus and Navigators. I.e., You could hard-code the Site/SiteArea path in a Menu or Navigator component design and use the Idnum for each Content item being displayed. This would allow you to display Content with a different Presentation Template (e.g. a printer friendly Presentation Template) or use different security settings.
Listnum Displays a single column list of numbered links:

  1. First.
  2. Second.
  3. Third.
Treenum Displays a hierarchical numbered list:

1.0
1.1
1.2
2.0
2.1
2.2

Paddedtreenum Similar to Treenum, but the numbers are padded:

0001
00010001
00010002
000100020001
000100020002

Depth Displays the depth of the currently processed node (in a Navigator or Menu) as a number. A top-level node has a depth of 1.

Parent topic: Using the Dreamweaver Enhancements.

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