That looks absolutely perfect!  Thanks for the push in the right direction.
  (*Chris*)

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Jan Haderka
<[email protected]>wrote:

>
> On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 23:25 -0700, Chris Pratt wrote:
> > That sounds perfect.  Is there any documentation on how to achieve
> > that?  I'm a bit unclear on how to get the reusable text into the DMS?
> > Especially since this should be achievable by non-programmers (like
> > the rest of the system).  Thanks.
> >   (*Chris*)
>
> Data module, _not_ DMS module.
>
> [1] and [2] should be enough to get you started.
>
> [1] http://wiki.magnolia-cms.com/display/WIKI/Data+Module+-+A+small+%
> 27how+to%27<http://wiki.magnolia-cms.com/display/WIKI/Data+Module+-+A+small+%%0A27how+to%27>
>
> [2] http://documentation.magnolia-cms.com/modules/data.html
>
> HTH,
> Jan
>
>
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Jan Haderka
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >         On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 14:39 -0700, Chris Pratt wrote:
> >         > We're using 3.6.3 and our users want to be able to
> >         essentially create
> >         > reusable chunks of text that they can drop on pages, as
> >         needed.  I've
> >
> >
> >         Would not it be better to use data module rather then creating
> >         a bogus
> >         pages to keep together bunch of paragraphs that you might want
> >         to
> >         include in some other random pages?
> >         When you define data type in the data module, you can also
> >         define the
> >         dialog with whatever custom fields you want and you don't need
> >         to have
> >         any templates.
> >         So later when you want to use such a chunk of content stored
> >         in the data
> >         module, all you do is create a paragraph with only one control
> >         - link
> >         (or uuidLink) where user can select the chunk from the data
> >         module they
> >         want and the paragraph template just fetches the content and
> >         displays
> >         it. Since you have a path (or uuid) to the content all you
> >         need to do
> >         when retrieving it is not to forget to specify also repository
> >         "data".
> >
> >         HTH,
> >         Jan
> >
> >         >  been trying to figure out a way to create a Paragraph that
> >         can
> >         > somehow inject a page defined in the website context into
> >         the current
> >         > page, but no matter what I try, it just doesn't work.  What
> >         I've tried
> >         > is creating a boilerplateDialog with a link (I've also tried
> >         uuidLink)
> >         > field that refers to the page I want to inject.  In the
> >         > boilerplate.jsp paragraph template I've tried:
> >         >
> >         > <cms:setNode var="node"/>
> >         >
> >         > <jsp:insert page="${node.link}"/>
> >         >
> >         > <c:import url="${node.link}"/>
> >         >
> >         > <cms:loadPage templateName="${node.page}">  <!-- I've tried
> >         every
> >         > combination of attributes I can think of -->
> >         > <cms:contentNodeIterator>
> >         >   <cms:includeTemplate/>
> >         > </cms:contentNodeIterator>
> >         > <cms:unloadPage/>
> >         >
> >         > If there's a better way to give the users the same
> >         functionality I'm
> >         > all for it.  Otherwise is there a way to make this scheme
> >         work?
> >         >   (*Chris*)
> >
> >         --
> >         Best regards,
> >
> >         Jan Haderka
> >         Magnolia International Ltd.
> >
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