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RE: 7.2 B2 - Web Content ID Missing

Lee Jordan, modified 6 Years ago.
7.2 B2 - Web Content ID Missing
Expert Posts: 449 Join Date: 5/26/15 Recent Posts
Web Content ID is missing or not easily seen in the edit web content form. Often it's much easier to edit the web content to bring this information up as opposed to going to content web content and looking through a list of content and getting something that might not be the correct item of content.

The shortcut was a good one and shouldn't have been removed. Again I'm assuming it was intentional to remove the content ID. It would be awesome to elevate this ID to the portlet topper so it's even faster to find the content ID.

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Christoph Rabel, modified 6 Years ago.
RE: 7.2 B2 - Web Content ID Missing
Liferay Legend Posts: 1555 Join Date: 9/24/09 Recent Posts
I second that one. The ID is very useful.
We have several components here, where the editor just adds the content ID in custom fields or in portlet configuration. The webcontent is then shown in the portlet. We use that in several places.
Lee Jordan, modified 6 Years ago.
RE: 7.2 B2 - Web Content ID Missing
Expert Posts: 449 Join Date: 5/26/15 Recent Posts
Interesting, yeah for me I'd find both the content ID and the template name in the portlet topper itself. "Web Content Display" ... yes that's nice, but it could be so much more useful. Often I get requests from new site admins like ... oooh what template is that? If it was printed in the portlet topper! Bamm! Of course having full width portlet toppers back would be a bonus so useful things can happen up there, like content ID's.
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Jorge Ferrer, modified 6 Years ago.
RE: 7.2 B2 - Web Content ID Missing
Liferay Legend Posts: 2871 Join Date: 8/31/06 Recent Posts
Thanks for reporting this, you are definitely right.

I just filed a ticket to get this fixed: https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-94839
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Christoph Rabel, modified 6 Years ago.
RE: 7.2 B2 - Web Content ID Missing
Liferay Legend Posts: 1555 Join Date: 9/24/09 Recent Posts
Just a general thing: It is often hard to find the ID. e.g. in Staging, finding the prod webcontent ID ist pretty hard. It would be nice to have it everywhere (i mean for every type of "object").

We also found the folderId pretty useful, but the for an editor to get it, you have to click the folder and copy the url and find it in there.