Selectable footer text for pdf

[Jeff_Reynolds]

Hi folks,

Might be getting too fancy here, but is there a way I can select footer text at build time when using Publishing templates?

Instead of hardcoding footer text could I inject it by selecting a parameter at build time?

Something like:

Edit a transformation scenario
1. Select a scenario
2. Select a security level, pick from Public, Internal only, Confidential.
3. Let'er rip.

[julien_lacour]

Hello Jeff,

Sure you can, for example with the following CSS:

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/* args.css.param.security-level */
:root[security-level='public'] {
  string-set: security-level "Public";
}
:root[security-level='internal'] {
  string-set: security-level "Internal only";
}
:root[security-level='confidential'] {
  string-set: security-level "Confidential";
}

@page chapter:first:left, chapter:first:right , chapter:left, chapter:right{
  @bottom-center {
    content: string(security-level);
  }
}

And then by declaring the 'args.css.param.security-level' in the publishing template file:

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<parameters>
  <parameter name="args.css.param.security-level" value="confidential"/>
</parameters>

Regards,
Julien

[julien_lacour]

Another solution is to use an XPath expression with the value to be displayed in the PDF:

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<bookmeta>
  <data name="security-level" value="Internal only"/>
</bookmeta>

In this case the CSS rule should be the following:

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:root {
  string-set: security-level oxy_xpath("//*[contains(@class, 'bookmap/bookmeta')]//*[contains(@class, 'topic/data')][@name='security-level']/@value");
}

@page chapter:first:left, chapter:first:right , chapter:left, chapter:right{
  @bottom-center {
    content: string(security-level);
  }
}

Regards,
Julien

[Jeff_Reynolds]

Thanks Julien!