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Is there a way to to add reusable parts of dialog under different nodes for different use cases

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November 11, 2020
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Here's my problem I want to reuse my dialog for images using foundation include.

My use cases are in one instance I need my node structures to be the following:

component1/cta/images

component2/mobile/images

It may be an oversight on my part but I can't seem to find a way that I can include my images dialog under the differing node structure cta or mobile. Is this possible and if so what would I use?

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Best answer by SebNamek

A colleague found the answer to this using the new namespace property on include. We had to upgrade our acs commons to use the new include param.

Here's a link to the documentation and an example usage https://adobe-consulting-services.github.io/acs-aem-commons/features/granite/parameterized-namespace-include/index.html.
example:

<typographyOptions
  jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
  sling:resourceType="acs-commons/granite/ui/components/include"
  path="airmiles/components/component-elements/typographyOptionsV3"
  namespace="small"/>
<typographyOptions
  jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
  sling:resourceType="acs-commons/granite/ui/components/include"
  path="airmiles/components/component-elements/typographyOptionsV3"
  namespace="medium"/>

This will yield our reusable TypographyOptions dialog with an appended small and medium in front of the namespace.
ex: small/fontSize & medium/fontSize

Manjunath_K

Level 7

Hi @sebnamek ,

Hope i understood your requirement, you can create reusable dialog fields at one location & refer same fields from component A, component B etc. using foundation include.

Create reusable field at common location (ex: /apps/project-name/widgets/image-field/.content.xml) & add image field in .content.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jcr:root xmlns:sling="http://sling.apache.org/jcr/sling/1.0" xmlns:granite="http://www.adobe.com/jcr/granite/1.0" xmlns:cq="http://www.day.com/jcr/cq/1.0" xmlns:jcr="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/1.0" xmlns:nt="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/nt/1.0"
          jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured">
    <items jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured">
        <column
            jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
            sling:resourceType="granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/container">
            <items jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured">
                <image
                    jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
                    sling:resourceType="cq/gui/components/authoring/dialog/fileupload"
                    allowUpload="{Boolean}false"
                    autoStart="{Boolean}false"
                    class="cq-droptarget"
                    fieldDescription="Configure Image"
                    fieldLabel="Image"
                    fileNameParameter="./fileName"
                    fileReferenceParameter="./image"
                    mimeTypes="[image]"
                    multiple="{Boolean}false"
                    name="./file"
                    uploadUrl="${suffix.path}"
                    useHTML5="{Boolean}true"/>
            </items>
        </column>
    </items>
</jcr:root>

In Component A reuse the image field using foundation include:

<items jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured">
    <imageFieldInclude
        jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
        sling:resourceType="granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/include"
        path="/apps/project-name/widgets/image-field/items/column"/>
</items>

In Component B reuse the image field using foundation include:

<items jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured">
    <imageFieldInclude
        jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
        sling:resourceType="granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/include"
        path="/apps/project-name/widgets/image-field/items/column"/>
</items>

Hope this helps!

S

SebNamekAuthor

Level 2

Thanks @manjunath_k,

That's also how I understood it. It seems like a pretty huge missed opportunity. It really limits the reusability of components in my application

arunpatidar

Community Advisor

Can you try with Sling Resource Merger(sling:resourceSuperType)? There you can override any properties you want.

e.g.

<image
    jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
    name="./another/name"
    sling:resourceSuperType="/apps/myapp/component/component1/cq:dialogs/cta/image"/>

Arun Patidar

S

SebNamekAuthor

Level 2

This is great I didn't know this was possible. If I understand this properly would I need to do this for every property on the image dialog that needs to change?

If that's the case I'm not sure this would help because we have 15-20 properties on our image dialog. I will definitely keep this in mind for the future though.

S

SebNamekAuthorAccepted solution

Level 2

A colleague found the answer to this using the new namespace property on include. We had to upgrade our acs commons to use the new include param.

Here's a link to the documentation and an example usage https://adobe-consulting-services.github.io/acs-aem-commons/features/granite/parameterized-namespace-include/index.html.
example:

<typographyOptions
  jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
  sling:resourceType="acs-commons/granite/ui/components/include"
  path="airmiles/components/component-elements/typographyOptionsV3"
  namespace="small"/>
<typographyOptions
  jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
  sling:resourceType="acs-commons/granite/ui/components/include"
  path="airmiles/components/component-elements/typographyOptionsV3"
  namespace="medium"/>

This will yield our reusable TypographyOptions dialog with an appended small and medium in front of the namespace.
ex: small/fontSize & medium/fontSize

S

Sc0rpic0m

Adobe Employee

Glad to see my contribution is being used 🙂 Enjoy. I was not aware of the sling merger when I created this. Maybe would be cool if the merger can support namespacing.

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