dxa-web-application-dotnet Component Presentations using templates from the same region are always collapsed into a single region

Component Presentations using templates from the same region are always collapsed into a single region

Open willprice76 opened this issue 8 years ago • 11 comments

If I have a page with the following CPS:

Teaser (2-column) Teaser (2-column) Article Teaser (2-column) Teaser (2-column)

When the page is rendered, the 2 groups of 2-col teasers will be collapsed into a single 2-col region, whereas what I expected, as an editor is for the article to appear between two separate 2-col regions.

Jul 25 '16 11:07 willprice76

If you want to have two Regions which use the 2-Column Region View, you should ensure that you define two Regions with distinct names. For that purpose, we introduced a Region Name metadata field next to Region View Name in DXA 1.2.

Jul 25 '16 11:07 rpannekoek

This sounds like I would need to duplicate all my component templates - so not an ideal solution - or do I misunderstand?

Jul 25 '16 12:07 willprice76

No, that's correct; you will need to have CTs for each distinct Region; the CTs don't represent much more than the MVC metadata. In general, the currently solution of using CT metadata to indicate Region is not ideal, but a necessary evil until we get full Region support in SDL Web itself (which might happen this year :-))

Jul 25 '16 12:07 rpannekoek

I created a PR with what I think is a better solution. https://github.com/sdl/dxa-web-application-dotnet/pull/27

Jul 25 '16 13:07 willprice76

Second this as an improvement. Would be a big improvement if this functionality was enabled