Shortcut to the function getObjProperty('propertyName',REQUEST)

Command: "prop"

Overview

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Introduction
General Syntax
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Introduction

A quick way to display the value of a specific attribute in the current context. ZMSHelper's "prop" command is handy shortcut for
<dtml-var "getObjProperty('propertyName',REQUEST)">

General Syntax

Command: "prop" - Attributes

Attribute "prop"

Meta type	:	string
Allowed values	:	The name of the attribute to be displayed.
Default Value	:	n/a

This is the only required attribute. The cmd attribute can be omitted. To display the results of getBodyContent(REQUEST) just put in body, e.g. prop="body"

Attribute "fmt"

Meta type	:	string
Allowed values	:	DATE_FMT, TIME_FMT, DATETIME_FMT
Default Value	:	None

Formats the DateTime property. See ZMS documentation for details.

Attribute "shorten_inline_urls"

Meta type	:	boolean
Allowed values	:	true or false.

Shorten links found within the returned text. "http://host:port/folder1/folder2" with "/folder1/folder2". Useful in combination with prop="body" to replace links in html blocks returned by the getBodyContent method.

Attribute "surrounding_tag"

Meta type	:	String
Allowed values	:	Any valid HTML tag as String.
Default Value	:	None

Puts an opening and closing HTML tag around the resulting expression. E.g. surrounding_tag="li" puts a <li>...</li> around the result.

Command: "prop" - Samples

Display the the shorttitle of the current object

Display the the value of the description attribute of the current object in bold letters.

HelperTag Syntax

Necessary DTML-code using the "Classic" Syntax

Render content objects with special properties

This example calls the getBodyContent methods of all child objects with the property targetSlot='Left Column'.

HelperTag Syntax

Get the shortened URL of special object's link attribute

Supposed you have special object which has a property link of type url this gives you the shortened URL for the object.

HelperTag Syntax

Render an unordererd list of child objects

This code snippet renders a list of child items of the current object as unordered list.

HelperTag Syntax

Show the date of last change

Shows the date, the object was changed the last time.