Kentico 12, not MVC:
I have a page template that is used on several pages. On some of those pages I want to display a form. (a biz form from the Forms application) I don't necessarily want the same form on each of those pages. I need a way to specify which form to display. I expect I could create a field in the page type to specify the form name, but it would be nicer to be able to have designers add a page with the form on it, and have a repeater display that page in a webpartzone on the aforementioned page template. I'm not sure how to do this, though. Anyone have an example or suggestions?
If you’re using portal engine, then you should easily be able to add an editor zone to your template. Content editors can then add the online form widget to individual pages. The widgets work at page level rather than template level, so should give the control you
The page from the docs will show how to setup an editor zone:
https://docs.kentico.com/k12/developing-websites/preparing-widgets-for-users/setting-up-widget-zones-on-pages
In addition to adding a widget zone, you can simply add an editable text webpart to the template and in the WYSIWYG editor you can click on the BizForm icon to insert that widget there. This doesn't require you to change the page template to a widget zone template.
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I want to create a Salesforce Web to Case from on my Kentico Site.
I have a template built and am inheriting the from that.
I create a new page and then add my form code to the Page Tab > Source and Save.
When I load the page on my site, the form is displayed, but when I hit submit, the form does not do the post action.
How do I accomplish this?
TIA, Jason
Since Kentico is built on web forms, each page's content is wrapped inside a form tag.
Adding your markup (including a form tag) in the middle of a Kentico page results in a nested form, which is invalid.
The quickest way to make this work is probably:
Create a basic HTML document with your markup, and put it on a new page in a "Custom Response" web part. https://www.screencast.com/t/PuwwnFTGGpAJ
Then display that new document in an iframe on your current page.
If that won't work, you can put your form markup in a div hidden by CSS. Then use javascript to move the div to a location after the page's main form tag. You can then use CSS to absolutely position the form on the page.
I hope this is helpful, good luck.
Please give me an overview of what a component, page, page component and template is in AEM. How are they related to each other. Please give example if possible.
Suggest any site to start as a beginner.
Your are mixing up technical and non-technical terms a bit. So I try to explain it in two ways: From an abstract, non-technical level, and from a technical point of view.
Abstract, non-technical explanation
The content of your AEM project mostly contains pages. A page is tied to an URL like www.example.com/products/teddybear. When a user opens this page he sees the content of the page. An image of the teddy bear, some descriptive text but also the header and footer of your page. This is where components come in. Content like the image, the text, the header and footer are all different components on that page.
Pages are composed of components.
Technical explanation
When developers try to implement pages and components they will need to create page templates, page components and components.
Page templates are basically XML files that define a few things about the page. For example the title of the page (e.g. "Content Page", "News Page", etc.) that is shown in the page creation dialog, a description, allowed parent pages (templates), allowed child pages (templates) and paths in your content where this page template can be used. Besides those things you can also define the basic structure of the page. Add a parsys, already add components to this parsys so those components are "hard wired" into every page you create.
Page components are the "implementation" of page templates. Here you can add the HTML for that page.
Components are the building blocks of pages. A component usually contains a JSP or HTML file that contains the HTML markup and maybe some business logic for that component.
Obviously, there are a lot more things to consider. But this should give you a basic overview over the relationship between all of those things.
Links:
Page Template documentation AEM 6.2
Component documentation AEM 6.2
I have created menu component, through which authors enter name, url field values.The component script renders the menu based on name, url entries.
Question : how to make this menu component common across all CQ5 pages, so it is not drag and dropped on each page.
Thank you,
Sri
ACS AEM Commons now supports this functionality without use of an iparsys - Shared Component Properties (http://adobe-consulting-services.github.io/acs-aem-commons/features/shared-component-properties.html)
Configure your menu with Shared and/or Global properties and you can simply template it directly onto all of your pages (no iparsys required). You can then edit the menu from any page on the site and it will by updated on all pages.
I have a Liferay site. I have several pages that needs to be tagged so I can get them in a custom portlet.
I also need to present a page with an alphabetic index of the tagged pages.
I have read documentation and I have seen that Liferay can put a tag or a category only on "assets" (web content, etc.) and not on a page/layout.
Can you suggest me a way to do it?
You are right about tag/category, these can't be applyed to layout (unfortunately).
The best alternative is to use custom attribute and define the extra fields for the page.
See this image
You can read the custom attribute for the page using ExpandoBridge API.
Here an example to read an extra attribute within the theme velocity template.
#set ($customField= $layout.getExpandoBridge().getAttribute("CustomFieldKey"))
Note: Remember to set the permissions on each custom attribute. It's very important!
i want to make a custom form in drupal 7 which should contain fields like firstname,lastname, date of birth, phone, email and other fields. i download the webform module, install and enable it.
I saw in a video tutorial that there is a Form Component Tab from which we can create our form fields. But when i try to create a form it will not show me the form components tab. i find it every where but no form component tab. can any body plz help me so that i can create my custom form
I encountered with the same problem today. Didn't see the sub-tab containing [ *Form Components *E-mails *Form Settings] under Webform.
This happens when your theme is a little buggy or the Drupal 7 link overlay hides them.
Solution:
Try using webform by disabling the overlay (in the module section), or
Change your theme to Garland or Bartik for ADMIN AREA only.
Hope this helps!