Hi,

I try to use taglibs in velocity files but I don't know how.
Its easy to call a defined taglib variable as in navigation.vm file
$theme.journalContentSearch()


but how can I call other taglibs like breadcrumb
in jsp its easy

<...liferay-ui:breadcrumb.....

and how can I put this tag in a Vm file?

Hi Przemek,

You can access some of the tags using the $taglibLiferay variable. See the class VelocityTaglib for details.

Hello Jorge,
Thx for advices
It works


in VelocityTaglib class:



in BreadcrumbTag class:



and now I've got a nice breadcrumb in my navigation.vm

Hi you all,

I want to implement the use of Tag <liferay:actionURL>, especially in my VM journal content template. But I had no luck - unfortunaletly.

I tried:

$taglibLiferay.actionUrl("73_INSTANCE_xxx") or $theme.actionUrl("73_INSTANCE_xxx") - it's not resolved.
$theme.journalContentSearch() is working pretty in portal_normal.vm, BUT NOT in the VM Template code of my Journal Template.

Does the code processing differ from the *.vm files in the theme pack from the VM Templates in Journal Templates? An if - how?

Any hints are welcome!

regards,
Thoimas

Hi Thomas,

Yes, the execution environments of the Journal Article templates and the themes are very different. In particular the former is more limited and not all functionalities of the latter are available (admittedly it needs to have better documentation). I'm not sure you can build URLs to other portlets from a portlet the way you want (although you can always use friendly URLs) but in any case I would check Journal Internal API for details.

Hi Jorge,

thanx for the information. I'll try my very best. What I want is to do something like IPC; I want to call another portlet fropm my Jurnal VM Template and give it parameters / attrributes.


regards
Thomas

I am browsing source code trying to understand how $theme (instance of ThemeImpl) is connected to VelocityTaglib...

I found this in ThemeUtil:


And also this in VelocityVariables:


It is confusing... VelocityVariables - for Journal only?

Hi all,
Is it possible to set the portlet url for breadcrumb in velocity template? Because it has initialisation #breadcrumb() something like this how to set the liferay-ui:breadcrumb:portletURL ?

Regards
Neelam