[Neos] Help with some typoscript

[Pankaj Lele]

Hell Nick,

Please try doing

# this pushes a new var into current ts context
@override.teaserTargetNode = ${q(node).property('teaserTargetNode')}

and then inside same prototype you should be able to use ${q(teaserTargetNode)

-Pankaj

> Hi all
> 
> I could still do with a bit of help on this as I am wondering if what I 
> am trying to do is possible at all now!
> 
> I thought as I was having no luck traversing the children of the 
> teaserTarget node I would try getting a parent node. ie.
> 
> // get the Target Node for this teaser
>       teaserTargetNode = ${q(node).property('teaserTargetNode')}
> // now get the parent
> teaserTargetNodeParent = ${q(teaserTargetNode).parents().get(0)}
> 
> in fluid I do a simple dump of the above ie. {teaserTargetNode} & 
> {teaserTargetNodeParent}
> for
> {teaserTargetNode} i get :
> Node 
> /sites/rerootsitecom/what-we-do/for-you/main/node52e907b4a56fe[Reroot.RerootSiteCom:Section] 
> 
> {teaserTargetNodeParent} is null .
> 
> So clealry I can't traverse this nodes parents or children. Is this 
> expected behaviour or a bug? From my limited understanding it would 
> seem a useful feature to have. All help welcome please :)
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
> On 04/02/2014 12:52, Nick wrote:
>> Hi all
>> 
>> I am trying to implement a teaser nodetype which I have called 
>> SectionTeaser which can be used to create a teaser element for a 
>> Section.
>> The idea would be that the editor inserts a SectionTeaser and then 
>> selects a node of type Section. Then I want to grab the Section and 
>> display the
>> sections Headline, if it exists, and say the first 400 characters of 
>> the section's first text element.
>> I have defined:
>> Reroot.RerootSiteCom:Section to be a subtype of TYPO3.Neos:Content and 
>> have childNodes column0 with type TYPO3.Neos:Content.
>> Reroot.RerootSiteCom:SectionTeaser is a subtype of TYPO3.Neos:Content 
>> and has one property teaserTargetNode type reference with an editor 
>> option
>> nodetypes : Reroot.RerootSiteCom:Section.
>> 
>> 
>> When it comes to the TypoScript I seem to be getting nowhere, which is 
>> probably a reflection of my knowledge :(
>> 
>> I had hoped in SectionTeaser.ts2 to try something like this:
>> 
>> prototype(Reroot.RerootSiteCom:SectionTeaser) < prototype(TYPO3.Neos:Content){
>> templatePath = 
>> 'resource://Reroot.RerootSiteCom/Private/Templates/NodeTypes/SectionTeaser.html' 
>> 
>> 
>> // get the Target Node for this teaser
>> teaserTargetNode = ${q(node).property('teaserTargetNode')}
>> 
>> //search for the first (there could be more than one ) 
>> TYPO3.Neos.NodeTypes:Headline contend in the childNode 'column0'
>> teaserHeadline = 
>> ${q(teaserTargetNode).children('column0').children('[instanceof 
>> TYPO3.Neos.NodeTypes:Headline]').first().get(0)}
>> 
>> //grab the first 400 chars of the first TYPO3.Neos.NodeTypes:Text 
>> contained in the Section
>> teaserText= 
>> ${q(teaserTargetNode).children('column0').children('[instanceof 
>> TYPO3.Neos.NodeTypes:Text]').first().slice(0,400)}
>> }
>> 
>> I would then render teaserHeadline and teaserHeadline in the SectionTeaser.html
>> 
>> However they are always empty.
>> 
>> Any pointers would be gratefully appreciated
>> 
>> Best wishes
>> 
>> Nick


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Pankaj Lele
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