topic Re: Link to Article Section in Carousel in Alfresco Archive

Link to Article Section in Carousel

fbander — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:09:45 GMT

Hello,This is my first post here but I've been grabbing some useful information for the past month. I am new to Web Quick Start but am moving along in my understanding thanks to hands-on work and awesome resources such as these forums. I have been looking for a way to have the "read more" link in

Re: Link to Article Section in Carousel

ben — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:45:05 GMT

Hi Bob, welcome!

Try:

<a href="<@makeurl section=article.containingSection/>">${msg('read.more')}</a>‍

That will provide the section of the article.

Regards, Ben.

Re: Link to Article Section in Carousel

fbander — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:59:41 GMT

Thanks, Ben! Worked like a charm. I do have another unrelated question:

I would like to put a picture on a page and have it render the same way as when an image associated with an article is clicked (in the nice little js box). However, I don't want the text around the image to be formatted like an article IE I'd like to place a sentence directly under the image as a caption.

Any input?

Thanks,

Re: Link to Article Section in Carousel

ben — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:33:24 GMT

Hi Bob,

The JS effect you describe is known as a "lightbox" effect. The one used on the sample site is driven by a jQuery plugin called SlimBox. You can read all about it http://www.digitalia.be/software/slimbox2. Fyi, all of the jQuery plugins are listed within the license file (Web-Quick-Start-License.txt) located under \wcmqs\META-INF.

These types of features are very much in the web tier and actually have nothing to do with Alfresco (with the exception of delivering the image). It will require a little JS and CSS work. To help you get up to speed, you may also want to take a look at the original template to see how the CSS and JS is used. It is available here - http://themeforest.net/item/media-consult-business-portfolio-and-blog-theme/63330

Regards, Ben.

Re: Link to Article Section in Carousel

bremmington — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:46:59 GMT

Just to add to what Ben has said, an image is a content asset so can have properties too. You may want to use the images "title" property as the caption you mention. In the "article/style1" component, that would be obtained simply with "image.title"

Re: Link to Article Section in Carousel

fbander — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:17:11 GMT

Thanks, gentlemen. I'll have a look!