Frontend Developer Manual / Version 2207
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The preview FreeMarker API provides calls to render inline metadata information about
content, prints out additional script sources for a CAE preview in Studio and supports specific Boolean calls.
It uses the namespace preview
for template calls.
preview.metadata
Provides inline metadata information to be used for the CAE. This metadata is used by Studio. For more information see Section 4.3.5, “Adding Document Metadata” in Content Application Developer Manual.
<div<@preview.metadata self.content/>> <h1<@preview.metadata "properties.title"/>>${self.title}</h1> <div<@preview.metadata "properties.text"/>>${self.text}</div> </div>
Example 6.20. Getting Metadata for a container with title and text.
preview.previewScripts
Prints all scripts and styles necessary for handling the preview.metadata
by CAE to Studio.
Should be added in the HTML head.
<@preview.previewScripts/>
preview.isPreviewCae()
Returns true if CAE is running as Preview CAE.
<#if preview.isPreviewCae()>...</#if>
preview.isFragmentPreview()
Returns true if CAE is rendering a fragmented preview of a content.
<#if preview.isFragmentPreview()>...</#if>
preview.getStudioAdditionalFilesMetadata(cssList, jsList)
Returns optional serialized metadata files in the header in order to render additional Studio specific CSS and JS in the preview frame. For more information see Section 4.3.5, “Adding Document Metadata” in Content Application Developer Manual.
Parameter | Required | Description |
---|---|---|
cssList
|
| Gets CSS sources for the Studio preview. |
jsList
|
| Gets JavaScript sources for the Studio preview. |
Table 6.29. Parameters of getStudioAdditionalFilesMetadata
<#assign studioExtraFiles=preview.getStudioAdditionalFilesMetadata( bp.setting(self, "studioPreviewCss"), bp.setting(self, "studioPreviewJs") )/> <head<@preview.metadata data=studioExtraFiles/>> ... </head>
Example 6.21. Include CSS and JavaScript from content settings with the names "studioPreviewCss" and studioPreviewJs".
preview.content
Function to get the content information of a given object that can be used to render preview information.
If no content information was found, cm.UNDEFINED
is returned (see Section 6.5.1, “CoreMedia (cm)”).
<@preview.metadata data=[preview.content(self)] />