Working with placeholders and templates in 10gR4

Question

I am new to 10gR4 features. Can someone help me in working with placeholders and templates in 10gR4. Is there a document available on that?
This is what is did. I created a primary page which contains a contribution region for list of articles(dynamic list fragment). Next, I created a secondary page (hcsp file) which is designed to create/update new artcicles. I also added a placeholder before the contribution region for this article by name ArticleDetail.
I was able to add new articles and work with them as usual like in 10gR3.
But when I tried to access the contents of a particular article using wcm_place_holder service I am not able to see any contents.
This is the url for the request
http://hd-pratapm/ucm/idcplg?IdcService=WCM_PLACEHOLDER&siteId=TestSite&dataFileDocName=TESTCONTENTFILE&templateDocName=ArticleDetail
where the TESTCONTENTFILE is the content id of the article data file and ArticleDetail is the name of the placeholder placed above article contribution region.
I tried changing the value of templateDocName to content id of the article (TESTCONTENTFILE) and also tried the content id of eondary page file for article, but the same result. I am not able to see anything on the screen.
Also tried the same with above values with placeholderDefinitionDocName instead of templateDocName parameter but no good.
Anything wrong I am doing here?
Regards,
Pratap

Answer 1

I tried something different and I am getting the response but the content is not html.
This is what I tried
http://hd-pratapm/ucm/idcplg?IdcService=WCM_PLACEHOLDER&dataFileDocName=TESTARTICLE&templateDocName=TESTARTICLE
and I got the response which is xml data. I think it is the contributed data file for TESTARTICLE.
What we are looking for is the html text for presenting the article directly on external sites. The documentation for WCM_PLACEHOLDER says that it should get html directly. I am not able to get it.
This is the snippet of code of articleDetails.hcsp secondary page
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<!--SS_BEGIN_SNIPPET(fragment1,2)--><!--$ssFragmentInstanceId="fragment1", ssIncludeXml("SS_FRAGMENTS_PLAIN", "fragments/fragment[@id='NavMultiHorizontal']/snippets/snippet[@id='2']/text()")--><!--SS_END_SNIPPET(fragment1,2)-->
</p>
<p> </p>
<p><!--$wcmPlaceholder("QtelArticleDetail")--></p>
<p>
<!--SS_BEGIN_OPENREGIONMARKER(region1)--><!--$SS_REGIONID="region1"--><!--$include ss_open_region_definition --><!--SS_END_OPENREGIONMARKER(region1)-->
  <!--SS_BEGIN_ELEMENT(region1_element6)--><!--$ssIncludeXml(SS_DATAFILE,region1_element6 & "/node()")--><!--SS_END_ELEMENT(region1_element6)-->  </p>
<p><!--SS_BEGIN_ELEMENT(region1_element2)--><!--$ssIncludeXml(SS_DATAFILE,region1_element2 & "/node()")--><!--SS_END_ELEMENT(region1_element2)--> </p>
<p><!--SS_BEGIN_ELEMENT(region1_element3)--><!--$ssIncludeXml(SS_DATAFILE,region1_element3 & "/node()")--><!--SS_END_ELEMENT(region1_element3)--></p>
<p><!--SS_BEGIN_ELEMENT(region1_element4)--><!--$ssIncludeXml(SS_DATAFILE,region1_element4 & "/node()")--><!--SS_END_ELEMENT(region1_element4)--></p>
<p><!--SS_BEGIN_ELEMENT(region1_element5)--><!--$ssIncludeXml(SS_DATAFILE,region1_element5 & "/node()")--><!--SS_END_ELEMENT(region1_element5)-->
<!--SS_BEGIN_CLOSEREGIONMARKER(region1)--><!--$include ss_close_region_definition --><!--SS_END_CLOSEREGIONMARKER(region1)-->
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Can you please suggest what else needs to be done in order to get html repsonse from WCM_PLACEHOLDER service.
Regards,
Pratap