[Plone-UI] Grabbing an article title or description out of context.

[Veda Williams]

Maybe this will help? It gives you a few ideas of things you could pull
in... Just make sure you grab the object first.

<tal:loop repeat="item featured">
                    <div class="featured-item"
                        tal:define="item_object item/getObject">

                        <a tal:attributes="href item_object/absolute_url;"
tal:condition="exists:item_object/image_tile">
                            <img src="" alt=""
                                 tal:replace="structure python:
path('nocall:item_object/tag')(scale='thumb', css_class='thumbImage')" />
                        </a>

                        <h3 class="tileHeadline"
                            metal:define-macro="listitem">
                            <a href="#"
                               class="summary url"
                               tal:attributes="href
item_object/absolute_url"
                               tal:content="item/pretty_title_or_id">
                                Item Title
                            </a>
                        </h3>


                        <span class="hidden"
tal:replace="python:toLocalizedTime(item.ModificationDate,long_format=1)">
                        August 16, 2001 at 23:35:59
                        </span>
                        <p class="tileBody">
                            <span class="description"
tal:content="item/Description">
                                description
                            </span>
                        </p>

<span class="featuredClear"></span>

                    </div>
                </tal:loop>


On 4/14/09 12:54 PM, "erik kulvinskas" <vaporboy at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I have been struggling with this for a while now. If you go to our beta test
> site at: http://ext.dot.state.co.us you will see that in the header, just
> below the logo is  some static text. I would like to make that dynamic by
> simply, or 'simply', grabbing the description from a news article that exists
> in the content database. I have read many articles on this but have fallen
> short of successfully doing it. I have started over and would like a fresh
> view on this. I have read that i can access the description of a news article
> by following a particular path-ing mechanism but i can never get it to work.
> Could someone point me in the right direction here concerning how to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Erik
> 
> All,
> 
> I was able to find a snippet of code that gets ALL of the text for the
> article. Any help trying to find out how to just get its description or title
> would be gratefuly appreciated.
> <tal:block tal:condition="exists:here/staging/newssection/overview.html"
>              tal:replace="structure
> here/staging/newssection/overview.html/getText">