Default Slot Entries

Rhythmyx Technical Discussion
1

Is there a way to populate default items in slots for new content items?

Our templates have a supporting left and supporting right content slot. We would like new items to automatically have the slot items inherited through the navon/navtree ancestry but still allow content authors to override this by placing new different items in the slots or deleting them altogether.

Currently we are using prop_slot to propogate the slot entries but this is conflicting with active assembly and so appears to be a dead end.

Cheers!

2

Kevin,

Out of the box, this functionality is not available, but I think you could write a post-exit that would handle it for you.

RLJII

3

Faced the same problem described above and a viable solution was to disable prop_slot when using ActiveAssembly and use a slot macro to prevent the dojo error (and possible permission issues). Look at the below sample code for clarification:


#if(!($sys.ltActiveAssembly || $sys.activeAssembly))##
	#prop_slot("slotName" "" "" "" "" "")
#else
	#slot("slotName" "" "" "" "" "")
#end

I may attempt to talk with Stephen (creator of prop_slot?) and see if he has other suggestions.