XF 2.0 Macros - need help

[Russ]

I'm trying to turn the visitor tabs ("p-nav-opposite") into a simple macro so I can call them in various places.

I figured you could wrap the contents:

<xf:macro name="visitortabs"> p-nav-opposite content here</xf:macro>

Then call it via:

<xf:macro name="visitortabs" />

While this appears to work, for the most part, it breaks the search menu by not having the additional search options(search this thread).

 

[TickTackk]

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[TickTackk]

Basically use something like this wherever you want to use the macro

<xf:macro template="pls_buff_mccree" name="visitortabs" arg-searchConstraints="{$searchConstraints}" />

and this inside the actual macro template

<xf:macro name="visitortabs" arg-searchConstraints="!">
    <div class="p-nav-opposite">

and pass all the page options or data that is only available in the PAGE_CONTAINER template (I think?)

 

[Russ]

Basically use something like this wherever you want to use the macro

<xf:macro template="pls_buff_mccree" name="visitortabs" arg-searchConstraints="{$searchConstraints}" />

and this inside the actual macro template

<xf:macro name="visitortabs" arg-searchConstraints="!">
    <div class="p-nav-opposite">

and pass all the page options or data that is only available in the PAGE_CONTAINER template (I think?)

If all the locations would be inside page_container would I still need to pass the variables? Essentially it's moving the user nav in different parts of the PAGE_CONTAINER. I guess I'm a little confused by what variables need to be passed through.

 

[TickTackk]

If my understanding is right then macros don't have access to anything outside $xf variable so anything that isn't making use of $xf would need to passed through the arg-[variable name here]