Named Content Holders

[Liam Dilley]

Instead of inseting a content module using it's ID you can insert a content holder module using it's name:

{ module_contentholder, name="Test Holder"}

In the system folder - _system / ContentHolders you will find the .html files for your content holdes.

To make a new one and insert that into a template you can do the following steps with this method.

1. Create a file like Test Holder.html in the folder _system /  ContentHolders

You can have capitals and spaces as this will be used to generate the content holders name. This file wont be used (or seen) on your website itself

2. Upload the file via FTP

3. You can now find that Content Holder in the Admin interface

4. To insert this Content holder into a template, webapp, page etc you can use the following:

{ module_contentholder, name="Test Holder"}

It is that easy.

You can also use this method in conjuction with the Visitor Device support.

http://www.businesscatalyst.com/_blog/BC_Blog/post/Introducing_tablet_phone_support_for_sites/

{module_contentholder, name="home_{system_visitorDeviceClass}"}

Note: This is the only tag currently that will work withing the name paramater.

[NYCInsider]

I am still trying to get this to work (I use DW). When I insert a content holder from the BC module, and is assigned a number, it works perfectly.

However, when I try: {module_contentholder,name="left-navigation-new.html"}

Nothing Shows

I see you have a space between { and module

this space is not shown here: http://kb.worldsecuresystems.com/103/bc_1034.html?bc-partner

Any thoughts on why I can insert the content (assign numbers) through the BC module but cannot manually add the code with the naming convention? I've tried about 5 times now..all failed.

Thank you in advance!

[Daryl Barnes]

Hi NYCInsider.  Your problem seems to be that you aren't actually using the name of the contentholder.  If you created one within Dreamweaver itself rather than BC and used the .html extension, I believe if you check within BC the name of the file would be "left-navigation-new.html.html".  In other words, whatever you named it in Dreamweaver, BC would add the .html extension to it even if your name already included .html.  At least that's how it worked in DW CS5.5 some time ago.

The way I do it is to create the contentholder in the BC back end instead and don't use an extension.  So you would name it something like "Left Navigation New" or "left-navigation-new".  You can then FTP down the file to Dw.  You will notice that the .html extension will be added by Dreamweaver at that time and then you can make edits to it like a normal html file.

[Liam Dilley]

You also do. It need to form these types of files into lowercase no spaces as these will be the names in the admin and not look very tidy.

[NYCInsider]

Thanks to you both! I gave up on BC a while ago (due to lack of support and resources), but good to know in case I decide to try again. Thanks for the help.

[Guest]

This is a handy method, are you aware of anyway you can use this to serve content based on who is logged in?

I would like to use {module_contentholder, name="{module_fullname}"} or something similiar but it doens't seem to accept modules in modules.

edit - just saw your note about system_visitorDeviceClass being the only thing that would work. Such a shame.

[Liam Dilley]

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