Creating an attribute resource tag

You use the attribute resource tag to define the information returned by a search query.

This is the format of an attribute resource tag:

[attributeResource attributeName="parameter" separator=" " format=" "]

To create an attribute resource tag:

  1. Click Insert a Tag from the search component design field. The Tag Helper dialog opens.
  2. Select attribute resource as the tag type.
  3. Click OK to add the tag to your design.
Once you have added the tag to your design, you can also add the following parameters to the tag:
Table 1. Additional tag parameters
Tag parameters Details
attributeName=authoringtemplate The name of the authoring template, if available, that was used to create the content item.
attributeName=author The name or names of the authors of the content item, if any are defined. If there is more than one author, then they are rendered with the string specified in the optional separator attribute between each value.
attributeName=category The categories of the content item if any are defined. If there is more than one category, then they are rendered with the string specified in the optional separator attribute between each value.
attributeName=contentid The id of the content item.
attributeName=contentpath The path excluding the server address, port, or servlet context (/wps/wcm) for this search result.
attributeName=date The value of the date field from the SIAPI result. The format of the date can be specified by using the optional format attribute. See the Javadoc HTML documentation for SimpleDateFormat in the Java SDK for details.
attributeName=description The description of the content item.
attributeName=effectivedate The effective date of the content item. The format of the date can be specified by using the optional format attribute. See the Javadoc HTML documentation for SimpleDateFormat in the Java SDK for details.
attributeName=expirationdate The expiration date of the content item. The format of the date can be specified by using the optional format attribute. See the Javadoc HTML documentation for SimpleDateFormat in the Java SDK for details.
attributeName=keywords The keywords of the content item if any are defined. If there is more than one keyword, then they are rendered with the string specified in the optional separator attribute between each value.
attributeName=lastmodifieddate The last modified date of the content item. The format of the date can be specified by using the optional format attribute. See the Javadoc HTML documentation for SimpleDateFormat in the Java SDK for details.
attributeName=modifier The name of the last person to modify the content item.
attributeName=name The name of the content item.
attributeName=namelink This assembles a complete link based on the name of the item being returned.
attributeName=owner The name or names of the owners of the content item, if any are defined. If there is more than one author, then they are rendered with the string specified in the optional separator attribute between each value.
attributeName=parentcontentpath This is used to return the content path excluding the server address, port, or Servlet context for the parent content item of this search result. For example: /wps/wcm

This parameter is valid when the search results include a link to a file resource element in the parent content item and is used to give context to the attached file. When the search result is not for an attached file in a file resource element, this value is an empty string.
attributeName=relevance The relevance “score” for this search result from the search engine.
attributeName=summary The summary of the content item as generated by Portal Search.
attributeName=title This is the title of a content item.
attributeName=titlelink This assembles a complete link based on the title of the item being returned.
attributeName=url Displays the URL of a content item.
format=" " This parameter is optional and can only be used with some parameter types:
When referencing number or date elements:
In this case, the format is used to specify the display format of dates and numbers. The following formats can be defined when displaying dates:
  • format="DATE_SHORT"
  • format="DATE_MEDIUM"
  • format="DATE_LONG"
  • format="DATE_FULL"
  • format="DATE_TIME_SHORT"
  • format="DATE_TIME_MEDIUM"
  • format="DATE_TIME_LONG"
  • format="DATE_TIME_FULL"
  • format="TIME_SHORT"
  • format="TIME_MEDIUM"
  • format="TIME_LONG"
  • format="TIME_FULL"
  • format="relative" (The relative date is displayed as either "today", "yesterday" or the number of days ago.)
You can also set user-defined formats for both dates and numbers:
separator=" " Enter text or code to be used to separate multiple search results. For example: separator=" - "
Parent topic: Creating web content tags