Ok. Basically I want to have a div template (e.g. for displaying different people & information - name, picture, information, styling etc.). So is there a way where I can duplicate one template div multiple times to show different data? Would I use JavaScript or a server side script like php pulling from a sql database.
This would also make it easier to exit layer on.
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We have an NodeJS API, that is used to generate PDF's. We use the Handlebars API server side to bind data to HTML templates (i.e. header, footer, content), then we use Puppeteer to generate the PDF's from the bound template. This approach works great when the data fits on one page.
However, we are trying to determine the best approach when the data spans multiple pages. We are not quite sure how to do this with the current technology.
With the data sorted, the layout is a four column table with the first column having the data sorted down, then once the column is full, it goes to the next column, then the next column, until all columns are full. One all the columns are full go to the next page.
Here is an example of what flow of the data needs to look like this across multiple pages:
https://lucid.app/lucidchart/83cf06f7-7e8a-4eb3-8059-fafd598318a6/view?page=0_0#?folder_id=home&browser=icon
Once the pages have been created they will be sent to the consumer as a single PDF.
Will puppeteer do this paging for us? If so, we have not had much success on how to tell puppeteer to do this. Do we have to create PDF's for each page and somehow stitch them together in a single document?
We are open to ideas on how to do this with the current technology (NodeJS, puppeteer, handlebars) or using a different NodeJS technology. The only requirement is it has to be server side and run in NodeJS.
Again we are open to any ideas on how to do this?
Examples are encouraged.
i was trying to understand in the Kentico's database model how can i change the web parts content using a database script.
So, basically i have a website based on Kentico with several articles, and internal hyperlinks in its content. But the problem is that the format of those hyperlinks are actually invalid. And i was looking for a way to build a script and do a bulk-update in order to replace some characters and update those hyperlinks to the valid format.
Any idea how can i build the query to get the content of all web parts used in all published pages.
Thank you
It depends on your web parts and how the content is rendered. There are different ways that web parts render their content:
The web part layout is used for markup
The ASCX file for the web part is used for markup
The web part makes use of a repeater that uses a Transformation to render the markup- The markup is generated in code behind
The last one can be tricky to change depending on the web part and whether you have access to all the code behind, but the others you can change either in code in your solution or within the Administration area itself.
Doing this in SQL would probably require a combination of T-SQL XML support and regular expressions to find what you're looking for. you effectively need to look in the CMS_WebPart and CMS_WebPartLayout tables to find what you're looking for.
However, reading your query, I'm not 100% sure you're talking about web parts, (my apologies if you are) as you talk about links in the article content itself. If these are set using the Editable text web part, then you need to look in the CMS_Document table at the DocumentContent field to find the links to replace. But you then need to look at how to correctly format those links going forward so that you do not need to repeat this process later.
Note:
You need to be really careful when doing this in SQL to make sure that you don't create invalid XML. Things go bad when you do that.
This won't flush your cache, so you'll need to clear your cache manually afterwards.
If you're using out-of-the-box web parts, you should really make a copy of them and use the copy if you're going to modify, this way, you're less likely to have pain in future upgrades.
Typically "content" is not set in a webpart. Webparts are configured to retrieve content from page types. There is an exception to this with specific webparts like Editable Text, Static Text, Static HTML, etc.
The configuration of a webpart is stored at the template level in the cms_pagetemplate table. The configuration for ALL webparts on that page template are stored in the PageTemplateWebParts field. So you'd have to parse through the XML and get the proper webpart and then perform an update on that field. You maybe able to do a regex to find that content and replace it as well.
Not ideal to do this via SQL simply because of version history and it can cause a lot of problems later on. I'd suggest finding out which API calls you can make to perform these updates and write a small program for it.
I am new in node.js and Angular and I am creating a web application.
At the moment I have the following design of my application - the screen is separeted by three columns - the left one is my menu and both middle and right columns are used to display the content. Sometimes when I click some of the elements in the menu I want to change only the middle column, if I click another menu element I want to change the partial in the right column and in other cases I want to change both middle and right columns per click in the menu.
I can't use ng:view because it doesn't allow me to use multiple ng:view elements. So I am wondering what is the best decision here. At the moment I am using ng:hide but it is not a good desicion. In the end I will have maybe 20 variables in my application which values I should update after every request.
Thanks!
Angular 1.x has a pretty limited router. Use better alternative UI-Router which allows you to have multiple views.
I have a document library set up with multiple different categories of document, and I'm using a metadata column to differentiate between them.
I want to be able to display two different document library web part on a page for different categories of file side by side. This is simple for one category, I just set up a list view filtered by the metadata column, but when I add a second web part alongside the first, it breaks the first one.
I have no idea why this is happening, but it seems like SharePoint isn't happy with pulling two sets of data from the same document library.
When I am editing the web parts, I can get them to both display the documents I want, but then when I click save, the first web part empties.
Not sure what other information would be useful for diagnosing or helping with the problem, so if I haven't given enough detail let me know. I am familiar with SPD as well as developing through the web interface, so if this needs a more complex solution that's fine with me!
Having spent some more time playing around with this, it struck me that I could probably achieve what I wanted using something other than a Document web part, and I was right.
Instead of using the somewhat inflexible document web part, I created a content query web part which only searched within the document library from my site, and filtered by the metadata column.
This way I can create as many queries as I like and they don't interact with each other in weird ways. It also has the advantage of being significantly easier to customise the output without needing to resort to SharePoint Designer.
Content Queries are the answer!
I would like to know if it is possible to use kentico macros (not necessarily coding a custom one) to access part of the rewritten URL's Path.
Example: http://www.mysite.com/Category/Subcategory/
I would like to get the last part (Subcategory) so that I may then filter content dynamically. The reason I want to use the macro is to simply not have to have 20+ different page templates only so I can have different web part properties.
Assuming you are using Portal templates, and you don't want an 'all items in all subcategories' list on the parent:
Create an Article List web part on the parent page — parent to all the sub-categories.
Set the web part Path to /{0}/{1}/{2}/% (if your path was /Home/Parent/Subcategory for example) or something similar for your environment.
Use the default setting of Inherit for the page template for all subcategory pages.
This will not show anything on the parent page, and the sub-categories will show only the documents under themselves. Note: If you want the subcategory items to have their own views when user digs down to /{0}/{1}/{2}/item, you may need to filter by changing template inheritance, or Document Types on the web part, or something like that if you don't want the whole sub-category list to also show on the item-specific pages.
You can create a custom macro or, you can also use the string operations which are allowed within macros. Please see http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/6_0/devguide/available_macro_methods.htm#string_methods (and you can e.g. use the EndsWith or TrimStrart or something similar).
However, I think the best way would be to create a custom macro which will exactly fit. There might be some combination of macros and macro functions - but I think it is faster just to code a custom one which will cover your need 100%.
Also, you can take a look on the K# if there is something that will fit - http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/6_0/devguide/ksharp_syntax.htm