topic accessing content repsitory in WCM in Alfresco Archive

accessing content repsitory in WCM

nyronian — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:40:44 GMT

I am trying to understand how to access things like images that are placed in the content repository in the WCM forms. Below is my situation:1. I have a ftl template that displays the images from the content repository using the below code:<#assign child1 = companyhome.childByNamePath["Data Dict

Re: accessing content repsitory in WCM

nyronian — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:31:20 GMT

Just want to make sure my question makes sense. Can you not access the CMS repository with freemarker when in the WCM? Am I accessing it wrong? I can't find any of the examples where resources are pulled from the CMS? It seems very basic to me and I'm sure I'm doing the template wrong even though it works from the presentation templates.

Please let me know, if it doesn't work then I need to scrap the WCM and build my own on top of Alfresco the does pull content. Seems like a waste to me though.

Thanks in advance.

Re: accessing content repsitory in WCM

arielb — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:45:48 GMT

currently rendering engines (including the freemarker engine in wcm) do not provide the same access to variables that the TemplateService provides to freemarker, meaning that the companyhome variable is not available. this will most likely be made available in 2.1 once we integrate renderingengines into TemplateService.

however, what you can do is place your images in the webproject, not the data dictionary. note that only the webproject is deployed to your production system, not assets within the data dictionary.

Re: accessing content repsitory in WCM

nyronian — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:42:41 GMT

Thank you so much for your response Ariel. It is clear that I need to take a little different approach for my objectives.

It will be nice to build websites that pull merged xml documents and pulls content and link from/into the repository.