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Not able to edit XML structure content, due not appears source tab
Not able to edit XML structure content, due not appears source tab
New Member Posts: 11 Join Date: 9/16/16 Recent PostsHi friends, please you help!
I need to edit the source XML of an content structure, but in my Web UI I don see any option for do that. Maybe is something with my insytallation or there is not an option? BTW I am connected with super admin user.
Liferay 7.4.1 ga2
Thanks
RE: Not able to edit XML structure content, due not appears source tab
New Member Posts: 11 Join Date: 9/16/16 Recent PostsI observed that in 7.3 last version there is a tab wiith "Source", so its seem be deleted since 7.4... anyone can confirm why please?
RE: Not able to edit XML structure content, due not appears source tab
Junior Member Posts: 44 Join Date: 12/18/19 Recent PostsHi
I am facing the same problem.
Have you found the solution??
RE: Not able to edit XML structure content, due not appears source tab
Expert Posts: 449 Join Date: 5/26/15 Recent PostsIt's a JSON file and a HIGHLY valuable feature. They removed the feature, Imma gonna try hard to get it back.
I also did a quick analysis of what they have done and this is mad ... You can export the JSON file, ok great. You cannot import it back to the same structure and there's no "Edit Source" or "Import JSON" say on the menu item on the ellipsis. You can get the JSON out, you can't get it back in to that structure ID?? You can only import new or copies of. That means there's no way to automate structure changes, say there's wording in the tips or even wording of the field labels. That is now impossible to automate with find and replace.
Bonkers. We can edit JSON in a fragment configuration in the UI (at least we could in 7.3) so this no causes a disparity (think of a fragment configuration as the JSON in a web content structure).
Yeah this is pretty bad. At least allow Portal Admins use of the JSON editor, at least in the Properties sidebar have an import/export JSON so that we can get the code out edit it and put it back. Though an editor would be better than import export and maybe that can go in the Properties sidebar as an expandable modal popup say. They could even improve it with syntax highlighting.
RE: Not able to edit XML structure content, due not appears source tab
Expert Posts: 449 Join Date: 5/26/15 Recent PostsI can only think that connecting over WebDAV is the only way to live edit the source now? The WebDAV URL should still be there, if it can be authenticated in FileZilla is a question I may get round to anwering for myself soon enough. If WebDAV is broke, we're dead in the water here.
RE: Not able to edit XML structure content, due not appears source tab
Expert Posts: 449 Join Date: 5/26/15 Recent PostsSubmitted as LPS without raising a help desk ticket yet (I have those
poor souls maxed out on the help desk).
https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-150780
Fingers crossed they don't say it's expected to have lost functionality