Content Grid for Customer Portal
This new feature enables you to display images from articles in a grid instead of a table of links when browsing specified content types.
Business Value:
More visual experience for small record-sets such as News or Alerts
Steps to Enable
Prerequisites
- Create the desired Content Types in Knowledge Advanced Authoring (if you do not already have them).
- Add a root schema attribute (cannot be in a node) of type "File attachment" to these Content Types.
NOTE: Only images uploaded to this special schema attribute will be displayed in the Customer Portal grid.
Enabling Grid UI Design
The okcs/AnswerList widget currently provides two options for displaying content:
- List View
- Tabular View
A third type of view been added to this widget: Grid View. Review these options on the widget:
| Attribute | Default | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| view_type | table | Yes | Should be set to "grid" to enable this feature. |
| grid_contenttype_list | Yes, if using the grid view_type | ??? Comma-delimited list of content type reference keys you wish to have display using the grid. | |
| grid_num_of_rows | ? | Number of rows in the grid layout. | |
| grid_num_of_columns | ? | Number of columns in the grid layout. | |
| grid_schema_attr | Yes, if using the grid view_type | The reference key of the attribute containing the image to be displayed in the grid. |
Tips And Considerations
- Note that the grid will be sorted such that the most recently published article will be displayed first.
- Articles of Content Types added by the user in the list will be displayed in the specified grid layout.
- Articles of Content Types not included in the list will be displayed in the traditional table layout.