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Sightly in <script> tag not evaluating?

  • October 16, 2015
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I am trying to write a basic Sightly user-grid component by referencing a JSP user-grid component. What I seem to be having trouble with is the expressive language seems to be written out without being evaluated in the <script> tag.

For instance in JSP:

<script type="text/javascript"> var baseURL = "<%= currentNode.getPath() %>"; $CQ(function () { $CQ('.user-table').flexigrid({ url: baseURL + '.json', // This will trigger a POST request back to CQ //more params }); }); </script>

And I should be able to rewrite this in Sightly as:

<script type="text/javascript"> var baseURL = "${currentNode.path}"; $CQ(function () { $CQ('.user-table').flexigrid({ url: baseURL + '.json', // This will trigger a POST request back to CQ //more params }); }); </script>

But for some reason the HTML is rendered as:

var baseURL = "";

I have only seen this behavior in the <script> tag, every other tag is would be rendered as the path to the currentNode. Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome!

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    Best answer by leeasling

    You need to set the context in the string.  You can find the documentation around that here: http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-0/develop/sightly.html#Display%20Context

    I believe for your needs you'll want to use:

    var baseURL = "${currentNode.path @ context='scriptString'}";

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    October 16, 2015

    You need to set the context in the string.  You can find the documentation around that here: http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-0/develop/sightly.html#Display%20Context

    I believe for your needs you'll want to use:

    var baseURL = "${currentNode.path @ context='scriptString'}";
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      knennigAdobe EmployeeAuthor
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      October 16, 2015

      Thanks! I haven't really used the @context param yet, so it's good to see it actually used.

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