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SebNamek
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Nov 11, 2020 8:13 PM UTC
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Is there a way to to add reusable parts of dialog under different nodes for different use cases

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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SebNamekAccepted solution
Level 2
Dec 3, 2020 10:14 PM UTC

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


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Manjunath_K
Manjunath_K
Level 7
Nov 11, 2020 9:05 PM UTC

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! 

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    SebNamekAuthor
    Level 2
    Nov 11, 2020 9:18 PM UTC

    Hi @manjunath_k,

     

    Thanks for reaching out. I'm aware of foundation include but what I don't understand is how I can add to the name field.

    In the example you provided both components will yield a content structure like this:

    component/image/fileName

     

    My use case is that I need to have the content structure something like this.

     

    Component A

    component/background/image/fileName

     

    Component B

    component/article/image/fileName

     

    To further illustrate this the only way I know as of now to achieve the desired result above would be to make two separate dialogs and include them via foundation include. These two dialogs would be identical except for the name property the differing names would be:

    Component A
    name='/background/image'

    Component B
    name='/article/image' 

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    arunpatidar
    Community Advisor
    arunpatidarCommunity Advisor
    Community Advisor
    Nov 12, 2020 11:32 PM UTC

    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"/>

     

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    Arun Patidar
      SebNamekAuthor
      Level 2
      Nov 17, 2020 3:08 PM UTC

      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.

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      SebNamekAuthorAccepted solution
      Level 2
      Dec 3, 2020 10:14 PM UTC

      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


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        Sc0rpic0mAdobe Employee
        Adobe Employee
        Dec 17, 2020 7:03 AM UTC
        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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