Thread: Calling a Topic from a section

Is it possible to call a topic from a section name, rather than linking to a section I need a section name to point to a topic.

If I wrap an href around a category name, this does the trick (below)...

Code:

<a href="t-mytopicname.aspx">Categtory Name</a>

but creating the same type of href in a section name generates a url like below

HTML Code:

http://site.com/s-1000004-a-hreft-mytopicnameaspxmy-section-namea.aspx

Thanks in advance!

Where are you doing this?

Originally Posted by ccoddington

Where are you doing this?

Currently site is not "published" but the question specifically applies to MS 9.3.

Sorry, is this in a package or in a particular page?

Originally Posted by ccoddington

Sorry, is this in a package or in a particular page?

I basically need this functionality to work from either navigating the departments from the menus or from the section links generated.
In looking deeper it appears that the "normal" href links generated work as expected, the issue is the hrefs related to the section images.

I'm using the entity.grid.xml.config package to display all of my sections and the url for the images in the packages appears to be causing the issue.
I'm just not sure what to change to fix it. I don't want to "break" the functionality for normal calls to section pages.

Code:

entity.grid.xml.config
...
<td align="center" width="{concat(round(100 div number($SubcatGridCols)),'%')}">
     <a href="{$URL}">
          <xsl:value-of select="aspdnsf:LookupEntityImage(EntityID, $EntityName, 'icon', 0, $AltText)" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
     </a>
     <br/>
     <a href="{$URL}">
          <xsl:value-of select="$scName" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
     </a>
</td>

I think I get the problem now... So you are putting HTML into the section name in the admin, is that right?

Originally Posted by ccoddington

I think I get the problem now... So you are putting HTML into the section name in the admin, is that right?

Yep. I couldn't think of an easier way to get the functionality I required. There are times when we will need to call a topic from either a section or category link rather than to the showsection or showcategory pages themselves.

Are you better with JS or XSLT?

Originally Posted by ccoddington

Are you better with JS or XSLT?

I think I'd rather use XSLT

Is this for navigation (either the top menu or the left nav)?

Originally Posted by ccoddington

Is this for navigation (either the top menu or the left nav)?

Currently the navigation works, the only issue I have found is in the ADNSF generated image links - the text links are fine.

So not knowing your setup, from the default entity.grid.xml.config package that comes with the 9.3.1.0, you would do this

http://screencast.com/t/hjjcm3njf8d

Originally Posted by ccoddington

So not knowing your setup, from the default entity.grid.xml.config package that comes with the 9.3.1.0, you would do this

http://screencast.com/t/hjjcm3njf8d

Just in case anyone else is looking for similar functionality down the road, we implemented the following code in several of our Entity XML packages to achieve our desired results, we can now embed href's in entity names and they will be handled correctly.

Code:

<xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="contains($scName,'href') = 'true'">
        <a href="{substring-before(substring-after($scName,'href=&quot;'),'&quot;>')}">
            <xsl:value-of select="aspdnsf:LookupEntityImage(EntityID, $EntityName, 'icon', 0, $AltText)" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
        </a>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
        <a href="{$URL}">
            <xsl:value-of select="aspdnsf:LookupEntityImage(EntityID, $EntityName, 'icon', 0, $AltText)" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
        </a>	
    </xsl:otherwise>				
</xsl:choose>

Thanks for the help Chris!