Ordinal Indicators Enhancement

This update enhances the structure, performance, and extensiveness of the ordinalIndicators module; Here's how:

• Both the pageInfo and groupInfo methods have been merged into one self-executing function: info
  • Now you can grab all page/group information via ordinalIndicators.info
• More information about groups is available
  • ordinalIndicators.groupAmount - The total amount of groups on the page
  • ordinalIndicators.groupCount - The total amount of content within the current group
  • ordinalIndicators.groupID - The ID of the current group (zero-based)
  • ordinalIndicators.groupIndex - The index of the current piece of content within the group (zero-based)

publishCache Microsite Fix

This update fixes an issue with publishCache.microsite; This module variable is now working as intended. Here's some other updates:

• T4Utils2 is dropping support for v7.4
  • The v7.4 release of 1.6.0 has been pulled for API discrepancies and errors
  • Maintenance of one utility file with drastically different API calls is no longer feasible
• Build system files have been further simplified and upgraded to ES2015 (ES6)

publishCache Module

This update brings a much needed publishCache module to T4Utils. Here's what you can do with it:

• publishCache.channel - Returns a data object containing information about the current channel
• publishCache.microsite - Returns, if at all possible, a data object containing information about the current microsite

Check the source file to see the types of information you can pull from these objects!

generateT4Tag() v7 Bug Fix

This is a v7 bug fix for brokerUtils's module generateT4Tag(). Here's the scoop:

• T4 was processing the tag templates before being loaded into a content type or page layout.
  • No matter how this module was used, an empty string was always returned
• The first < of the tag template has been replaced with the unicode equivalent \u003C

generateT4Tag()

The brokerUtils module has been extended to include generateT4Tag()!

• Create/process T4 tags by passing in a configuration object
  • type (content, media, navigation, title)
    • type - string
    • default - "content"
  • name
    • type - string
    • default - ""
  • output
    • type - string
    • default - "normal"
  • modifiers
    • type - array
    • default - []
  • id
    • type - number
    • default - 0
  • formatter
    • type - string
    • default - ""

v7.4 Support

T4Utils2 now officially supports both TerminalFour v7.4 and v8.1. Here's what's changed:

• The Gulp build system now compiles 2 versions of the library (for TerminalFour v7.4 and v8.1)
  • The main gulpfile.js now uses a build module to simplify and bootstrap library compilation code
• The ordinalIndicators module now uses replaceable strings for any v7.1/v8.1 API discrepancies
  • These replaceable strings are changed to the correct API calls during the build process
• The elementInfo module has had undefined variable issues fixed
• The media module's getImageVariantsIds method is now wrapped in a T4Utils.contextIsContent conditional

Global Context Variables

Issues related to the var context = content || null; problem within page-layouts have been solved. Here's how:

• In page-layouts, the original way of calculating context errors out. The following logic works and will be utilized: var context = typeof content == 'undefined' ? null : content;
• All new context, contextIsPage and contextIsContent member variables have been added to the base T4Utils object
  • This ensures that the context is defined globally at the start of the library
  • The modules brokerUtils, elementInfo and ordinalIndicators now utilize these member variables in their logic

Ordinal Indicators Failsafe

A new failsafe has been added to ordinalIndicators to allow for the entire library to be used within page layouts. Here's what's changed:

• All code within pageInfo/groupInfo has been wrapped in a conditional checking to see if the global variable content is undefined
  • If content is defined, the self-executing functions will run as expected
  • If content is undefined, the self-executing functions will return objects with null key/value pairs

Ordinal Indicators - pageCount

A new pageCount member variable has been added to ordinalIndicators.

• Returns the amount of content (of the kind in which the variable is called) on the page

Ordinal Indicators Optimization

ordinalIndicators have been optimized in a few ways for speed and efficiency, and new features have been added. Here's what's changed:

• New functions pageInfo and groupInfo have been added
  • pageFirst, pageIndex, and pageLast are now aliases for key/value pairs pageInfo returns
  • groupFirst and groupLast are now aliases for key/value pairs groupInfo returns
• Comments are more contextual
• Syntax is simplified to utilize cleaner, more understandable code