Add links to (possibly) new pages in PocketQuery template

Duncan Kinnear

I've got a PocketQuery template which lists program names and descriptions as found in a database table.

I want the program name to be a link to a documentation page about that program, but the page may or may not exist.

I've tried the following so far:

$PocketQuery.renderWikiMarkup('[$row.program]')

$PocketQuery.renderXhtml('<ac:link>$row.program</ac:link>')

#contentLink2($row.program false false)

But none of these work.

Is there another way to do this? Is there documentation somewhere that gives this kind of information/examples?

Felix Grund (Scandio)

Hi Duncan,

Since PQ templates are rendered in view mode, you can't use any editor features or XHTML content. But you can easily do it with Velocity programming.

If you simply only need the link with always the same text and no other logic, you can simply use a createpage link. If the page already exists, there will simply be a redirect to that page:

<a href="${req.contextPath}/pages/createpage.action?spaceKey=spaceKeyOfPage&title=${generalUtil.urlEncode($row.program)}&linkCreation=true">$row.program</a>

If you need some more logic, you can also do this and check if the page exists first:

#set($myLinkedPage = $pageManager.getPage("spaceKeyOfPage", $row.program))
#if ($myLinkedPage) ## page already exists
	<a href="${req.contextPath}${myLinkedPage.getUrlPath()}">$row.program</a>
#else ## page doesn't exist yet
	<a href="${req.contextPath}/pages/createpage.action?spaceKey=spaceKeyOfPage&title=${generalUtil.urlEncode($row.program)}&linkCreation=true">Create page: $row.program</a>
#end

Simply replace the spaceKeyOfPage in both cases with the key of the space where the page should be.

Does this help?

Regards, Felix (Scandio)