Page Builder Template Language Syntax | Communifire Documentation

Page Builder template syntax is based on Handlebars.Net. Using the functions on this page, you can create your own Page Builder templates and customize how content appears in widgets. With conditionals, iterators, and variables that retrieve content and user data, the templates you can create are endless.

Page Builder Template Example

<div class="axero-widget axero-widget-entity-icon-list {{CustomCSSClass}} {{#if HideContainerBorder}}axero-widget-no-border{{/if}}">
    <div class="axero-widget-header">
        <h3>{{WidgetTitle}}</h3>
    </div>
    <div class="axero-widget-content">
        <ul>
    		{{#each Contents}}
			<li>
				<div class="entity-icon">
					<i {{#if IsFeatured}}style="color:blue"{{/if}} class="{{EntityIconCssClass}}"></i>
				</div>
				<div class="entity-title">
					<a title="{{{Title}}}" href="{{ContentURL}}">{{{Title}}}</a>
					<br/>
					<div class="small nobold">
						{{EntityTypeText}} {{../Resources.GlobalByText}}: <a href="{{AuthorUserProfileURL}}">{{{AuthorUserDisplayName}}}</a>
					</div>
				</div>
			</li>
			{{/each}}
		</ul>
	</div>
</div>

General syntax

• Using {{{ instead of {{ around variables skips encoding of HTML and may be necessary at times to avoid double encoding.
• If block: {{#if condition}} html {{/if}}
• Close an each block: {{/each}}
• If-else block: {{#if condition}} html {{else}} html {{/if}}
• Get localized text: {{Resources.ResourceKey}}
  Note: Your intranet's localized content text are at the level of the widget. When you need to use them in a nested context (like in an each block), use the prefix ../ to get to the higher context. For example: {{../Resources.GlobalYesText}}.

Basic Widget Functions

Widget Specific Tokens

Activity Ticker Widget

Button Widget

CAPTCHA Widget

Connected Devices Widget

Content List Widget

Content Specific Functions

Cases

Discussions

Events

Files

Users

Videos

Wall Posts

Field Widget

Filter Widget

People Widget

When creating a people widget template, use the Insert widget specific token menu to get any user profile field data. The template for profile fields is {{{field:Field name}}}. To check if a certain profile field has a value, use the format {{#if ||field:Field name||}} Content {{else}} Alternate content {{/if}} .

People Directory widgets require "User." before the variable (e.g. {{{User.UserInfoDisplayName}}} ). 
Single person widgets require "Contents." before the variable. (e.g. {{{Contents.UserInfoDisplayName}}} )

Poll Widget

RSS Widget

Search Widget

Section Widget

Space List Widget

Sync Folders Widget

Tag Cloud Widget

What's New Widget (Deprecated)

Iterator Functions

These functions iterate through content.

• {{#each Contents}}
• {{#each Contents.Activities}}
• {{#each Contents.Articles}}
• {{#each Contents.Blogs}}
• {{#each Contents.Events}}
• {{#each Contents.ForumPosts}}
• {{#each Contents.Photos}}
• {{#each Contents.Videos}}
• {{#each Contents.Wikis}}

If Functions

These functions check content type.

• {{#if Contents.ShowArticles}}
• {{#if Contents.ShowBlogs}}
• {{#if Contents.ShowEvents}}
• {{#if Contents.ShowForumPosts}}
• {{#if Contents.ShowPhotos}}
• {{#if Contents.ShowVideos}}
• {{#if Contents.ShowWikis}}

Helper Functions

Comparison Helper

The comparison helper compares values and returns true or false.

{{#if (compare Variable "ComparisonValue")}} {{/if}}

Note: Integer comparison values do not need surrounding quotes.

"==" is the default operation in the compare helper. To use a different operator, add the operator in quotes between the variable and comparison value:

{{#if (compare Variable ">" ComparisonValue)}} {{/if}}

List of operators:

1. "=="
2. "!="
3. "<"
4. ">"
5. "<="
6. ">="

Examples:

{{#if (compare EntityType "Event")}}<div class="when">{{{EventWhen}}}</div>{{/if}}

{{#if (compare CommentCount ">" 0)}}<div class="comments">{{CommentCount}} comments</div>{{/if}}

Date Helper

The date helper converts dates into different formats.

{{date DateTimeVariable "operation" "option"}}

DateTimeVariable should be a DateTime field (e.g. EventStartDate) instead of a datetime string, which requires converting to DateTime, which may not be as reliable.

Example:

{{date EventStartDate "dayofweek" "short"}}

Even Helper

The even helper checks if a number is even and returns true or false.

{{#if (even Variable)}} {{/if}}

Example:

{{#if (even @index)}}class="even-child"{{/if}}

Logic Helpers

The logic helpers perform boolean logic and return true or false.

{{#if (and (Case) (Case))}}

The logic helper can be followed by as many cases as you want to evaluate.

List of logic helpers:

1. and
2. or

Example:

{{#if (or (compare EntityType "Article") (compare EntityType "Blog"))}}

Math Helper

The math helper does arithmetic and returns the value.

{{math Variable "+" Variable}}

List of operators:

1. "+"
2. "-"
3. "*" (also aliased as "x" and "X")
4. "/"
5. "^" (to the power)

You can also specify a number of places to round to:

{{math Variable "/" Variable 2}}

Example:

{{math ContentID "+" CommentCount}}

To Lowercase Helper

The to lowercase helper converts text in a variable to lowercase.

{{{toLowerCase Variable}}}

Example:

{{{toLowerCase Title}}}

Replace Spaces With Hyphen Helper

The replace spaces with hyphen helper converts all spaces in a variable into hyphens.

{{{replaceSpaceWithHyphen Variable}}}

Example:

{{{replaceSpaceWithHyphen Title}}}

Remove HTML Helper

The remove HTML helper strips HTML tags from a variable and returns a plaintext version.

{{{removehtml Variable "htmltag"}}}

htmltag specifies the HTML tag to remove from the string. To remove all HTML instead, don't provide this parameter. (See second example below.)

Examples:

{{{removehtml Description "a"}}}

{{{removehtml ContentBody}}}

Nested helpers examples

Helpers can be nested within one another. Inner helpers should be wrapped in parentheses.

Example 1: The removehtml helper is nested in the trim helper. HTML is removed from Description, then the result is trimmed to SummaryCharacterLength.

{{{trim (removehtml Description "a") ../SummaryCharacterLength}}}

Example 2: Nested logic helpers. The content is checked to be an article and have a category ID of 15 or 16.

{{#if (and (compare EntityType "Article") (or (compare CategoryID 15) (compare CategoryID 16)))}}

Example 3: Nested tolowercase and replaceSpaceWithHyphen helpers. The variable Title is converted to lowercase, then spaces are replaced with hyphens.

{{{replaceSpaceWithHyphen (tolowercase Title)}}}