Displaying Custom Content Types

Question

Short Version
I have created custom content types that has a few properties that are complex. One is an image type and another is a collection of another custom content type. I am unable to display or access these items.
Long Version
I have a custom content type with the following properties
It is called PageThreeColumn
PageTitle : String
LeftNav : String
RightNav : String
HeroImage : image (complext type that came with weblogic)
ContentCollection: Collection of type ContentPlaceholder
The other custom type ContentPlaceHolder
Type : String
HtmlContent : Binary
I created a content presenter view (wlp-templete-config.xml) and I am able to get a simple string property to be displayed.
So I can do the following
<cm:getProperty name="LeftNav" node="${node}"/>
And I get the expected String back.
What I am unable to do is get to anything that is more complicated then the simple datatypes. For instance the Image data type.
I have tried node.HeroImage but it does not display correctly.
I appreciate any help you can give and would definately like a link to an example of displaying content that is not as trivial as most of the examples.

Answer 1

I have tried the following code variations
<div>
     ${node.properties[0]}
<!--//Shows string as expected-->
     ${node.properties[1]}
<!--//Shows string as expected-->
     ${node.properties[2]}
<!--//Shows string as expected-->
     ${node.properties[3]}
<!--//Shows the following
HeroImage: [Lcom.bea.content.Property;@48958a1 -->
     ${node.properties[4]}
     <!--//Shows the following
     ContentCollection: [Lcom.bea.content.Property;@48958a5 ,
                                          [Lcom.bea.content.Property;@48958a8 ,
                                           [Lcom.bea.content.Property;@48958ab -->
                <cm:getProperty node="${node.HeroImage}" name="heroimage" />
     <img src="${templates:getImageSource(pageContext.request, heroimage)}"/>
</div>
Variation 2
<img src="${templates:getImageSource(pageContext.request, node.HeroImage)}"/> //says that it does not recognize node.HeroImage
Variation 3
${node.HeroImage} //says that it does not recognise HeroImage
All dont work.
Should I be adding or doing some type of customization to the template jsp to handle the complex data type?
Is there an example or tutorial that uses a complex content type and the content presenter to show content?
Or maybe an example of more complicated uses of the JSP files in the:
/portlets/wlp/contentpresenter/templates/wlp-default/cm
/portlets/wlp/contentpresenter/templates/wlp-default/outer
All of the examples I found were ver trivial. Basicly showing a very simple example but nothing using a content type that is more complicated in the non-primary properties then strings.
Edited by: danscan1712 on Mar 11, 2009 8:01 AM