Content plugin

The Fabrik content plug-in allows you to embed Fabrik content within your Joomla articles

Embedding Forms(top)

Add a new record into a form whose ID is 1:
Add a new record into a form whose ID is 1 and passing parameters to fill elements :
Edit form 1, row 1:
Show details view of form 1, row 1:

Searching for form records to edit(top)

Load form 1, and look for an existing record where the 'user' element has a value of 62. If the record is found, the record will be loaded for editing; if not found, a new record can be entered.
Load form 1 and look for an existing record where 'user=62 AND status=1'. You can add as many key/value pairs as long as you ensure that each value is separated by a pipe ( | ).

Embedding Lists(top)

Embed a list with an ID of 1 into an article.
Options:

• random=1 - Starts showin the ordered records at a random start point (3,1 since 20/11/2013)
• limit=5 limit the # of records shown (3,1 since 20/11/2013)
• fabrik_show_nav=0 hides the list navigation
• elements=732|734 - list of element ids to show separated by a '|' (3,1 since 20/02/2014)
• list-picker=0 - hides the list picker (drop down which appears in admin to swap the list being viewed (3,1 since 20/02/2014)
• hide-add=1 Hide the add button - overrides list's ACL settings, if set to 1. (3,1 since 20/02/2014)

Filtering Lists(top)

Filter a list to show only records where 'elementname' has a value of 'foobar'.
Accessing URL parameters to filter a list:
[param1] is replaced with the value of param1 in the URL (e.g. URL ...option=com_content&view=article&id=11&param1=foobar)

Reset applied filters (except prefilters):
Hide the filters:

Filtering Lists - Advanced(top)

Show rows where elementname1 is 'abc' AND elementname2 is one of 1, 4, 8, or 2:

As you can see you may use almost any string as a condition value.

Those strings have to be "url encoded". So any characters which aren't "legal" on a URL have to be replaced with their %xx equivalent. The most common example is a space (%20), but there are others like single or double quotes.

You can generate urlencoded strings by using online tools like ...
http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/dotnet/tools/urlencode/Encode.aspx

Pay attention that when you use [condition] or similar (see below) for any field, you MUST use [value] for this field too.

You may specify several values for one field using this syntax (may be necessary for some operations like BETWEEN, see example below):

By default is equal condition is used for any value specified for row field. You may specify your own condition for each such field. List of possible conditions is :

• <>
• <
• >

IN(you need a comma-separated list of integers without surrounding quotes or parentheses as a value, see example above. I know nothing about list of text values but suppose each list item should be quoted)

CONTAINS (you should specify a string as a value, and rows containing this string in specified field will be listed)

BETWEEN - see example below

By default all conditions specified joins with logical AND - they should match all together. If you want OR instead of AND - add this for all your conditions (may be except the first):

Theoretically you may combine AND and OR joins but I'll not explain it because of :

• complexity
• lack of use. AND always executes before OR and I know no 'operation parentheses' for Content plugin. So most likely the result of combining AND and OR will be not those you want.

Ranged filters:
NOTE that the date should be in the table view format, not as a mysql date format.

To get the next 7 days worth of records :

The "%B7" is decoded to a '+' and the following '+' is decoded to a space, giving '+7 Days' as the top ranged filter value.

Notice: the element name format listname___elementname_raw is not usable here although we use this kind of element name when filtering lists by database join or cascading dropdown element data. Use just listname___elementname instead, especially when we want display data dynamically using placeholder for a variable (e.g listname___elementname=[rowid]). In content plugin, it retrieves raw data for filter even when there are dbjoin or cdd elements while _raw could generate some problems.. See http://fabrikar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22860 http://fabrikar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22860


Notice: Filters defiined inside {fabrik view=list......} are sticky and can not be unset by the user. As such they behave in a similar fashion to list prefilters

Visualizations (top)

Show visualization id 1
resetfilters and showfilters can be used - see "Lists"

Element data (top)

Insert list 11 row 239's checkbox element's data

• repeatcounter=X- specify the repeat records value you want to use. Defaults to 0
• repeatcounter=all - will render all the repeat group data, inside a <ul> (3.0 & 3.1 ince 09/10/2013)
• If no rowid is specified then the first row is loaded (3.1 since 16/09/2013)
• random=1 - loads a random record (3,1 since 20/11/2013)

Accessing URL parameters(top)

[param1] is replaced with the value of param1 in the URL (e.g. URL ...option=com_content&view=article&id=11&param1=foobar)

Common modifiers(top)

Templating(top)

For which ever view you choose, you can change its template by adding :

Hide Form title(top)

Item ID(top)

If you want URL's within the list / form to be routed with a different menu item than the one the plugin is being displayed on, add itemId=X