Connector plug-ins | HCL Digital Experience
Connector plug-ins are used for connections to other systems.
- Connections Context Plug-in
- Used to query various aspects of a connections context of a certain type.
- The supported types are 'service', 'portal', 'config' and 'context' revealing different aspects of the current connections context.
- To retrieve the current user from the portal context, use
[Plugin:ConnectionsContext type="portal" key="userId"]. - In order to get the URL of the social object that is currently
selected, use
[Plugin:ConnectionsContext type="context" key="url"].
- List Rendering Cache Plug-in
- Used to cache the markup generated for individual bean lists.
- List Rendering Context Plug-in
- Used to set or remove the current context for pluggable list rendering. It identifies the plug-in to use for getting a list of resource beans as well as the list rendering profile to use.
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For setting the list rendering context, use
[Plugin:ListRenderingContext action="set" extension-id="ibm.portal.ddc.xml" profile="greenwell-job-offers" attribute="sortCriteria=lastModified" attribute="sortOrder=asc"]. - For removing the list rendering context, use
[Plugin:ListRenderingContext action="remove"]. - For getting an attribute from the current context use
[Plugin:ListRenderingContext action="getAttribute" key="sortCriteria"]. - For accessing a bean list property use
[Plugin:ListRenderingContext action="getListProperty" key="nextLink"].
- Set Query Context Plug-in
- Used to set the context for queries targeting HCL Connections services.
- The context defines the particular aspects of the query.
- To establish the query context, use
[Plugin:IBMConnections:SetQueryContext].