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Derek Read June 12, 2012 at 6:56 pm

Reply to: Show element contents in Content Reference Dialog (XM 7)

June 12, 2012 at 6:56 pm

is displayed because we have specific code in place to do that, but it isn't configurable.</p> <p>This might be possible to do as part of some services work if you need the feature right away.</p> <p>I've logged a feature request that asks that we allow clients to configure this for arbitrary elements so they display in a similar way to what we do for .</p> <p>As you know, can contain children (phrase-level elements). The text we show here is a concatenation of all text nodes in the including child elements and in most cases the extracted text will still be somewhat understandable.</p> <p>I'm not sure how nicely that will work for other elements. It will possibly depend on the element and how you use it. The simplest case would be to do the same type of concatenation and hope that gives you enough context. I can't say that's how such a feature will end up being coded, but that's the request I've put in.

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