Re: Page vs Content Actions & setting page title in actions

Andy Zeneski wrote:
> I am trying to figure out some differences, and if anyone can help me
> understand I would appreciate it.
> 
> Page actions vs. Content actions
> 
> It appears page actions only run on the requested page.
> Content actions run on all content.
> 
> So, if page A has one page action (a1) and one content action (a2)
> and, page B has one page action (a3) and one content action (a4)
> 
> Page B is included in page A, (and using the extended filesystem repo)
> Page A is requested:
> 
> Actions a1, a2, a4 will be run. Probably in that order?

That is correct.

> Why are page actions defined <page-action></page-action> and content actions
> are defined as <content-action name=""/> it appears that the format is
> required, but I could be wrong.

The action formats are:

<page-action name=""></page-action>
<content-action name=""></content-action>

You can nest any XML inside of the action declaration and that XML will be passed to the action as a Configuration object, which is essentially a tree of configuration data.

The format:

<page-action></page-action>

Is an old version which should no longer be used and was only their for compatibility with an older version of JPublish.  I am going to remove it completely for 2.0 since you brought it up. :-)

> Lastly,
> 
> I am attempting to call Page.setTitle() from inside either a page or content
> action, but nothing seems to happen, how can I set the page name from an
> action?

The get/set Title methods are old and are deprecated.  I can remove them from JPublish 2.0 if no one objects.  Instead you should set a named property.  Keep in mind that case-sensitivity may matter, so a property "title" is different than "Title".

Sincerely,
Anthony Eden



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