Reference Elements

 

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The Element tag is used to reference an element within a presentation template or element design.

    <Element type=" " 
             context=" " 
             name=" " 
             key=" " 
             format=" " 
             separator=" " 
             start=" " 
             end=" " /> 

For example:

    <Element context="autoFill" 
             type="content" 
             key="Image"/>

<Element
type=" "	Choices are "content", "sitearea" or "site".
context=" "	Determines which content item or site area is being referenced. Selected Refers to a particular item as specified in the name attribute below. Current Reference the element from the current site, site area or content item that is being browsed by the user. AutoFill The element being referenced will be determined by the search parameters of a menu, navigator or taxonomy component.
name=" "	Name and library of the item the element is being referenced from. For example,... name="library/item" To use the library specified in the URL of the current page, use name="./item". The "name" parameter is not used if context=current or context=autofill.
key=" "	Name of the element being referenced.
format=" "	Optional. Can only be used with some element types: When referencing an image element: Use format="url" to only render the URL of an image element. Use format="tag" to render a complete image tag. The image will be displayed on the rendered page. Used by default if no format is specified. When referencing a link element: Use format="url" to only render the full URL of a link element. Use format="path" to only render the site path of a link element. For example, site/sitearea/content. Use format="tag" to render a complete link tag. Used by default if no format is specified. When referencing number or date elements: In this case, the format is used to specify the display format of dates and numbers. See Note on formatting numbers for further information.
separator=" "	This only used when referencing an option selection or user selection element. It is used to define what text or code will be rendered between each selection displayed in an option selection or user selection element. For example, to add a line break between each selection, you would use separator="<br>". If not defined, a comma will be placed between each selection when rendered.
start=" " end=" "	The start and end attributes are used to wrap the data returned by an IWWCM tag within other tags, such as HTML. These attributes are not mandatory.
/>	Closes a Web Content Management tag.

 

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