Get contentids of slot items?

Rhythmyx Technical Discussion
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Is it possible to get the contentID(s) of the items in a slot in the bindings area?

Is using ‘$sys.asm.findSlotByName(“Slot_Name”)’ going the right way for getting it?

Thanks!

2

Use the $user.PSOSlotTools.getSlotContents() method in the PSO Toolkit. This will return a List of items, and you can get the sys_contentid property from each item.

3

Thanks! Can you point me at any documentation for its usage?

4

The formal documentation is in the PSOToolkit Javadoc.

If you have installed the PSOToolkit properly on the server, go to:

http://myServer:9992/Rhythmyx/Docs/Rhythmyx/PSOToolkit/index.html

However, you will probably find the answer in this thread (or one like it):

http://forum.percussion.com/showthread.php?t=1900

Dave

5

Jay,
Here’s an example from the bindings one of our templates - just to give you something to cut and paste :wink:

We get two fields from the slot item: displaytitle and webinar_description. You could change the field name to “rx:sys_contentid” to get the content ID.


Variable               Binding
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$slotparams.template     "mwWebinar_EmailHTML"
$parent_webinar       $user.psoSlotTools.getSlotContents($sys.assemblyItem,"mwWebinarSlot", $slotparams).get(0).getNode()
$webinar_title       if ($parent_webinar == ""){"";}  else {$parent_webinar.getProperty("rx:displaytitle").String;}
$webinar_description   if ($parent_webinar == ""){"";}  else {$parent_webinar.getProperty("rx:webinar_description").String;}