Database publishing advice

Rhythmyx Technical Discussion
1

I’m after a bit of advice on the best method to use for some of our database publishing.

We have a ‘Course’ content type which in turn can have a number of ‘Publications’ associated with it.

At present I have a sys_Table control in my ‘Course’ content type which then uses a lookup to pull in the ‘Publications’ into a drop down, and the content id of this publication is stored and in turn published out to a database.

Would I be better implementing this as a slot which could then be populated with the necessary ‘Publications’?

If so, how would I go about getting the value of all the content id’s of the items in the slot?

Cheers.

2

Yes, you would be better off using a slot.

The PSOSlotTools.getSlotContents (in the PSO Toolkit) can help you get the items in the slot (and hence their content ids).

3

Thanks Dave.

I found some talk on getSlotContents on a previous thread.

I managed to get this to return the contents of the slot ok, but I can only manage to pull out the content id for the first item in the slot.

How can I access all of the slot items to publish?

4

You have to iterate over the items in the slot. Normally you use #foreach for this. If you post your template code, I might be able to point you in the right direction.

Dave

5

Hi Dave,

Sorry, bit confused here. The template code is just the xml for the database publish.

Cheers,
Chris.

6

Is this a 6.5 system, or 6.1?

In 6.5, you can write foreach loops in jexl bindings. You can also use the size() operator to return the length of the list.

In 6.1 there are some other techniques: let me know if that’s what you need to do.

7

Thanks Dave, its 6.5 so I can use the loop in the bindings if you could give me a few pointers.

Cheers,
Chris

8

I’m doing something wrong along the lines somewhere.
In my bindings I’m trying to loop over the items returned by getSlotContents() so that they can be published to a child table.

My bindings are:
$slotContents -> $user.psoSlotTools.getSlotContents($sys.assemblyItem, “ntuCoursePublications”, $slotparams)
[B]$child[2].cplCourseID -> $sys.item.getProperty(“rx:sys_contentid”)
$child[2].cplSeq -> $rx.db.sequence(1,1)
$child[2].cplPublicationID-> foreach($mySlotItem in $slotContents) { $mySlotItem.getNode().getProperty(“rx:sys_contentid”).String ; }

[/B]But this still only returns the first item in the slot?

Cheers,
Chris.