Create a placeholder tag

You use a placeholder tag to display metadata within an element or component design.

This is the format of a placeholder tag: 

 [placeholder tag=" " htmlencode=" " start=" " end=" " ]

To create a placeholder tag:

  1. Click Insert a Tag from a component or element design field. The Tag Helper dialog opens.

  2. Select Placeholder as the tag type.

  3. Select a placeholder tag type. This is added to the placeholder tag as the tag=" " parameter:

      Name

        This is used to display the name of the site area or content being retrieved in a menu or navigator. This can also be used when you create a user name component, where you can add a placeholder tag in the design and specify tag="name" to render the name of the user.

      Title

        This is used to display the title of the site area or content being retrieved in a menu or navigator.

      dn

        This is for when you create a user name component. You can add a placeholder tag in the design and specify tag="dn" to render the distinguished name of the user.

      HREF

        This inserts a link to the page of the site area or content being retrieved in a menu or navigator.

      noprefixhref

        The URLs generated by "HREF" parameter is fully qualified when viewed through a portal. To generate URLs with no prefix, use the "noprefixhref" parameter instead of the "HREF" parameter.

      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.

      noprefixnameLink

        The URLs generated by "nameLink" parameter is fully qualified when viewed through a portal. To generate URLs with no prefix, use the "noprefixnameLink" parameter instead of the "nameLink" parameter.

      TitleLink

        This is a combination of the title and HREF tags. It assembles a complete link based on the title of the item being returned.

      noprefixtitleLink

        The URLs generated by "titleLink" parameter is fully qualified when viewed through a portal. To generate URLs with no prefix, use the "noprefixtitleLink" parameter instead of the "titleLink" parameter.

      sitepath

        This is similar to the HREF placeholder except that it only display the site path of an item's URL.

        For example, an HREF placeholder tag displaying a content item may give you:

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

        Whereas the site path will give you:

        • /metaorg/intranet/press+releases

        For example, an HREF placeholder tag displaying a site area may give you:

        • /ILWWCM/connect/metaorg/intranet/

        Whereas the site path will give you:

        • /metaorg/intranet

        Note that the final / slash is not included when the site path is displayed for site areas.

      Idnum

        This returns the hexadecimal ID value of an item. This can be used when creating static URLs in menus and navigators. You could hard-code the site area path in a menu or navigator element design and use the Idnum for each content item being displayed. This would allow you to display content with a different presentation template (for example, 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.

  4. If you are using the placeholder tag with an authoring tools element that is rendered by the JSR 286 web content viewer, specify the format attribute to control where the authoring task is performed.

      format="tag"

        The placeholder is rendered as a URL that opens a pop-up window containing the authoring portlet. Default.value if no value is specified.

      format="url"

        The placeholder is rendered as a URL that redirects the user to a hidden portal page used by the JSR 286 web content viewer for inline editing.

  5. Select the type of encoding for the placeholder:

      Encode tag output

        If selected, the reserved HTML characters in the source is converted into character entities. For example, '<' is converted to '&lt;'. This is useful if you would like to prevent users adding malicious code, or if you want to prevent users changing the look and feel of their text using HTML.

      Do not encode tag output

        If selected, no encoding is applied to the HTML rendered by the placeholder tag.

      Default encoding

  6. Click OK to add the tag to design.

Once you have added the tag to design, you can also add the following parameters to the tag:

Table 1. Additional tag parameters

Tag parameters Details
start=" "

end=" "

The start and end attributes are used to wrap the data returned by a tag within other tags, such as HTML. These attributes are not mandatory.


Use a URLCmpnt tag:

The URLCmpnt tag is used to generate a URL to a site area or content item and can be used as an alternative to a placeholder when generating a URL. This is particularly useful when creating links to web content displayed within rendering portlets.


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