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Content Editor Page

Content templates consist of two elements:

  • Renderers (Apex class)
  • Content Editor Page (Visualforce Page)

The typical framework of a content editor page used by content authors to create and edit content contains:

  • An array populated with the names and values of each of the attributes entered by the content author
  • HTML form fields and jQuery widgets for the content author to enter values for the attributes 
  • A save function that is used by OrchestraCMS to write the attributes in the array as records in Salesforce
  • A function to disable the inputs if the content should be locked for editing (e.g. published, locked, no permission, expired, etc.)

A simple example of a content editor is shown below.

<apex:page controller="cms.CreateContentController" extensions="SampleContentTemplate" showHeader="false" sidebar="false" cache="false" standardStylesheets="false">
<apex:outputPanel layout="block">
 
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
    ce.content_editor('registerSaveFunction', function() {
        return [ 
            {
                name: "myAttr",
                value: $('#myField').val(),
                type: "Text",
            }
        ];
    });
});
</script>
 
My Attribute: <input id="myField" type="text" value="{!myAttr}"/>
              
</apex:outputPanel>
</apex:page>

The content editor page must have the controller set to cms.CreateContentController.  It must be extended by the class that contains your accessors.