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Shared Content Reference Component
Display shared content on your page.
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Last reviewed: November 14, 2022
Using This Component
This component has one tab.
Once the Shared Content Reference component is built, a publishing status indicator is displayed as well as a “Go to source of” helper link, allowing you to click through to the source page.
Technical Restrictions
- You can only share content from pages that you can view in Author. That normally includes anything in Shared Content.
Configure - Main Settings
Click the wrench icon to 'configure' these settings.
The component opened for editing showing the Shared Content Reference tab.
Shared Content Reference Tab
Reference: Click the magnifying glass to select the page from which you would like obtain content. Normally this will be shared content, and the path will thus begin /content/shared/...
Description: Provide optional text that is displayed in Author when the content is not visible; e.g. for code in an HTML Snippet.
Advanced Tab
The component opened for editing showing the Advanced tab.
Use dynamic reference: Check the box to bypass server caching, which ensures the content you are displaying on your page is current with the original version.
- Generally this is only used when the referenced content changes quite frequently and is not needed if the shared content includes embedded content such as an Events List.
Host page: By default the page that "hosts" the shared content is the same page that the reference component is on, so leave this field blank to use your current page as the the host.
Additional Information
Example of the component in Preview Mode, showing the status indicator and 'Go to source' helper link.
WHen a Shared Content Reference is loaded with content, switch to Preview Mode to see a helpful “Go to source of” link, plus a publishing status indicator.
A green icon indicates published content, while red indicates it is unpublished, and blue indicates it has been modified. In the example below, the displayed news story is live and shows a small green icon.
In the same way you can pull in an entire page of shared content, you can also selectively pull in some of the page's individual components.
- Navigate to the shared content page that interests you; e.g.
https://ubcms-author.buffalo.edu/content/shared/university/news/news-center-releases/2015/01/001.html - Edit the URL in the browser's location bar and remove the final '.html'; e.g.
https://ubcms-author.buffalo.edu/content/shared/university/news/news-center-releases/2015/01/001 - Now navigate through the path that is revealed:
- jcr:content
- par
- jcr:content
- You should now see a list of the components on that page, identified by short versions of their names; e.g.
- title [Title]
- image [Photo]
- title_02 [another Title]
- pubdate [Date Published]
- assetcolumn [Related Content Container]
- text [Body Text]
- hr [Divider]
- title [Title]
- Identify the component that interests you (e.g. the Body Text 'text') and click that.
- Now copy the URL in the location bar.
- Delete everything before '/content...'
- Change the '_jcr_content' to 'jcr:content'
- https://ubcms-author.buffalo.edu/content/shared/university/news/news-center-releases/2015/01/001/_jcr_content/par/text/
will become just
/content/shared/university/news/news-center-releases/2015/01/001/jcr:content/par/text/
- Delete everything before '/content...'
- Use this final version of the path in your Shared Content Reference component. (Try it -- you should see just the text from this news story.)