Gentics CMS Documentation

Chapters

1. Overview

   • Configuration

   • Rendering Tag Annotations

   • Sanitize Content Handler

   • Pasting annotated Tags

   • PubSub channels

1 Overview

The basic idea of this feature is to allow Copy & Paste of Tags from one page to another or within the same page.

1.1 Configuration

This feature can either be activated generally (for all nodes)

// activate copy & paste of tags for all nodes
$FEATURE["copy_tags"] = true;

or only for specific nodes

// activate copy & paste for node 42 and 99 only
$FEATURE["copy_tags"] = array(42 => true, 99 => true);

Additionally, some other things must be configured for the feature to work correctly:

// The block plugin must allow 'a' as root tag for copying links.
$ALOHA_SETTINGS['plugins']['block']['rootTags'] = array('div', 'span', 'a');

// The feature copy_tags requires the content handler 'gcn-tagcopy' to be the first
$ALOHA_SETTINGS['contentHandler']['insertHtml'] = array('gcn-tagcopy', 'word', 'generic', 'block', 'formatless');

1.2 Rendering Tag Annotations

If the feature is activated for a node, the root HTML elements of tags will be annotated with data-gcn- attributes when rendering pages in preview mode. If such an annotated root HTML element is selected and copied (using CTRL-C), the data-gcn- annotations will also be copied and will enable identification of the tag to be duplicated during pasting.

1.3 Sanitize Content Handler

When using a sanitize content handler, it must not remove the annotations, that are necessary to store internal information to links:

• data-gcn-pageid
• data-gcn-tagid
• data-gcn-tagname
• data-gentics-aloha-repository
• data-gentics-aloha-object-id

If any of those annotations are removed while pasting content that contains links, the links might not be transformed to tags correctly.

1.4 Pasting annotated Tags

When content is pasted into editables of pages and the copy_tags feature is enabled (using CTRL-V), a special content handler will detect tag annotations and will then create copies of the original tags, which are placed in the edited page. If the tag “contains” other tags (references other tags using the <node [tagname]> notation), the referenced (nested) tags will also be copied into the edited page and the references will be updated to the names of the new tags.

If the editor has no permission to view the source page or the source page does not exist or does not contain the annotated tag, the tag will completely be removed from the pasted content (and the user will see an error message).

1.5 PubSub channels

When the feature is activated and all tags have been copied, the content handler will publish to the channel gcn.tagcopy.finished. The payload will contain the editable. Implementations could subscribe to this event like:

	PubSub.sub('gcn.tagcopy.finished', function (data) {
		// data.editable ...
	});