Hi Carsten:
Here's a snippet (BeanShell, I'm afraid - but it shouldn't be to hard to convert) I use to display a single blog entry/article on my website. Note, you need the contentId. That comes from the user selecting from a list of articles and then passing that back via request parameter. Also, I created the view-entity ContentDataResourceElectronicTextView that joins the content -> data resource -> electronic text records together.

GenericValue thisBlog = delegator.findOne("ContentDataResourceElectronicTextView",
            UtilMisc.toMap("contentId", article), false);
   .... stuff left out....
    context.put("blog", thisBlog);
    return;

In the Freemarker template:

<#assign renderedContent = StringUtil.wrapString(blog.textData) />

I think I describe in pretty good detail how the OOTB OFBiz content data model works in the RSS document I did some time ago:

 http://www.myofbiz.com/ecommerce/products/PROMOTIONS/p_PUB-RSS0710

Regards,
Ruth

On 3/25/11 1:15 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi Ruth,


Thanks for that bit. Any groovy script you would be able to point me to in 
order to understand how the lookup would work?

Regards


Carsten
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ruth Hoffman<[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:54:35
To:<[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Using CMS Elements in FTL

Hi Carsten:
Are you referring to ElectronicText.textData?

Usually content -  like email body values -  is either in an
ElectronicText.textData record pointed to by a
DataResource.dataResourceId and/or Content.dataResourceId or in a disk
file somewhere and the DataResource.dataResourceId points to that location.

To get the content and have Freemarker render it (and not just put up
literal values), you can use something like:


<#assign renderedContent = StringUtil.wrapString(blog.textData) />


Where blog was placed into the context via a Groovy data prep script.

Is that what you are looking for?

Regards,
Ruth



On 3/25/11 12:27 PM, Carsten Schinzer wrote:
All,


I am trying to customize the E-Mails and PDFs generated by OFBiz to contain
managed content (like e.g. an opening text addressing the user and explaning
the terms of the offer / order etc. or a closing remark including a greeting
and a signature).

I see that most of these contents -- especially the Formatting Object ones
-- are handled and created using FTL parts.
How would I thus reference a piece of managed content? Do I need to load it
using a groovy script? Does anyone know a place where this is already done
in the OFBiz framework?

Any hint would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot in advance.
Cheers


Carsten

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