Using pageService and CBHelper in a custom plugin

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Hello,

From the docs i learned, that i have to use this to have pageService and CBHelper in my plugin:

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<cfset var thisPages = pageService.findPublishedPages(parent="", showInMenu=true)>

I got an execption :Error Messages: variable [PAGESERVICE] doesn’t exist

What did i wrong here?

Many thanks

cheers

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Remove ID: from the inject.

3

Cool, this helped. Had to restart Railo afterwards, a bit odd…

Many thanks

cheers

4

I have a follow up question regarding e.g. the pageService:

How can make pageService available in let’s say in pages.cfm? This makes normaly no sense, but it’s is a good place to dump things out to see the data.

Thank you.

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Actually, reinitting usually fixed that. Metadata for objects is cached inside of WireBox for performance, so event transients won’t pick up property changes until WireBox is shutdown and re-created (which happens on a reinit)

Thanks!

~Brad

ColdBox Platform Evangelist
Ortus Solutions, Corp

E-mail: brad@coldbox.org
ColdBox Platform: http://www.coldbox.org
Blog: http://www.codersrevolution.com

6

Sorry to ask this newbie question: And how can i make the pageservice available in a regular cfm page? How does this init look like?

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Hi Brad,

GetModel() was the missing thing.

Is it right that i can append the methods right away, like this:

<cfset myStuff = getModel(“pageService@cb”).findPublishedPages(parent="", showInMenu=true)>

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Yes, that will work. If I’m going to call more than one method, I’ll usually set the service into an intermediate variable but it all comes down to your readability.

Thanks!

~Brad

ColdBox Platform Evangelist
Ortus Solutions, Corp

E-mail: brad@coldbox.org
ColdBox Platform: http://www.coldbox.org
Blog: http://www.codersrevolution.com

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Got it…

Actually i dumped a bit to much to the screen, which blew me away -:slight_smile:
Using the methods from the API let me display what i like, great!

Thanks again…