Utilizing "Custom CONTENT Parts" ?

Replying to own post, after weeks of scouring the internet for help/tutorial/api documentation, and coming up with nothing useful, I finally just tracked back code in the editor window to a that is automatically generated below the code I enter into the custom content part creator. Using javascript and an onclick event I changed the type to type="text", and played with entering values manually until I discovered that by entering serialized info into the box it will pass the object into the display end of the part. Prior to figuring out that I should change that value, the part was just passing a blank to the next page. It's actually a pretty simple thing, there just doesnt appear to be any documentation on the custom CONTENT part ability, although there is a ton of info about creating custom framework part.

Chad,



I am similarly head banging and rubber-band flipping right now...this is SO close to the information I need - could you repost so that your code snippets show up?



I would really appreciate it!

Sara:



Some example code to demonstrate how the object is moved from the editor to the web page display:



enter these values in the 'custom content part' window:



Initialize javascript function:


helloworld



Editor:



<br /><br/><script type="text&#47;javascript" language="javascript"> <br /><br/>function savesettings(){ <br /><br/>window&#46;BLACKBAUD&#46;api&#46;customPartEditor&#46;settings&#46;alertme = new Object(); <br /><br/>window&#46;BLACKBAUD&#46;api&#46;customPartEditor&#46;settings&#46;alertme = "Hello World!"; <br /><br/>} <br /><br /><br/>$(document)&#46;ready(function(){ <br /><br/> savesettings(); <br /><br/>}); <br /><br/><&#47;script> <br /><br /><br/>Web page display: <br /><br /><br/><script type="text&#47;javascript" language="javascript"> <br /><br/>function helloworld(p){ <br /><br/> alert(p&#46;settings&#46;alertme); <br /><br/>} <br /><br/><&#47;script> <br /><br/>



Obviously this is a poor example, but it demonstrates how BB moves the customPartEditor object between the admin editor and the front end display. You can utilize this to move settings for things like slideshows to the front end.



You can also make use of built in API features like the link selector and image uploader / selector by using the API calls like onclick="launchSelectImage();"



Hope that helps!



*Edit* didnt realize my earlier posts had the code edited out by the messaging system, sorry about that lol.



FURTHER EDIT:



Justin,


While the helloworld tutorial was a good start, it never explained how to move data from the editor to the display.