TouchUI Dialog - Hyperlink with custom href

[Julio_Baixauli]

Hi masters!

I’m building a TouchUI component dialog, and I’m trying to add a ‘hyperlink’ Granite component (granite/ui/components/foundation/hyperlink). I would like to set the href of the hyperlink to something based on the suffix (a substring of the suffix).

I’ve tried to use JSTL substring function (although the documentation [1] is explicit ‘Only the variables and functions given in this document are supported’, I had to check it J). This is what I’ve tried:

<column jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured" sling:resourceType="granite/ui/components/foundation/container"> <items jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"> <mylink jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured" sling:resourceType="granite/ui/components/foundation/hyperlink" href="https://forums.adobe.com/assets.html/content/dam/something/${fn:substring(requestPathInfo.suffix,5,10)}" icon="icon-imageText" target="_blank" text="text"/> </items> </column>

…but it doesn’t work, as expected, because ‘Uncaught SlingException javax.el.ELException: Function 'fn:substring' not found’.

Is there a way to do this?

Maybe an alternative would be to develop a new component which would handle with the substring logic and would include the hyperlink Granite component with the correct href, but I would like to find the easiest and most elegant way to implement this.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Kind regards,

Julio.

AEM 6.2 SP1 CFP2

[1] https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-2/develop/ref/granite-ui/api/jcr_root/libs/granite/ui/docs/serv...

[kautuk_sahni]

Hi

Please have a look at this community article :- http://experience-aem.blogspot.in/2015/05/aem-6-sp2-handling-custom-protocol-in-link-href-in-rte.htm...

// AEM 6 SP2 - Handling Custom Protocol in Link Href in Rich Text Editor

I hope this would help you.

~kautuk

[Julio_Baixauli]

Thank you for the comment, kautuk, but I don't think it's related with the exposed issue.

Kind regards,

Julio.

[smacdonald2008]

A powerful way to do things in Touch UI component dialog - when the OOTB functionality is not what you want, is to write a custom sling:resourceType for use in the dialog. 

Its basically a JQuery plug-in you want to use. So using this technique, you can meet your requirements (similiar to a custom xtype for Classic UI). 

http://scottsdigitalcommunity.blogspot.ca/2017/02/creating-custom-experience-manager.html

(in this artilce - we use a color picker as an example - but you will get the idea)

[Julio_Baixauli · Accepted solution]

Thank you Scott. Yes, that's the option I mentioned earlier, to develop a new component. It seems 'a lot' of work for, at first sight, a simple requirement. I was trying to figure out any simplest way to do it, without implementing a whole new component. It would be great if we could use some functions in Granite XML definition files, beyond the granite:* mentioned in the documentation. Maybe in future releases Engineering could implement that.

Anyway, thank you very much again!

Kind regards,

Julio.