How to pass data to template

[dstover]

Hello. I would like to be able to pass variable data to a dtl (template) file. For example, the Article.dtl file has some data passed to it in the Body field which I would like to modify. Please let me know a way to do this.

Thanks in advance for any info...Dan.

[reneeb]

In the .pm files (e.g. Kernel/Modules/AgentTicketPhone.pm) you'll find something like

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$Self->{LayoutObject}->Block( 
    Name => '...';
    Data => {
        ...
    },
);

or

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$Self->{LayoutObject}->Block( 
    TemplateFile => '...';
    Data => {
        ...
    },
);

. The hash passed to "Data" contains all the values for the template. This might also help: http://doc.otrs.org/developer/3.3/en/ht ... anism.html

[dstover]

Thank you very much. I will look into that.

[dstover]

I think I see how that works. What I really need is to bring up an activity dialog screen with an article field with predefined values in the article fields. I see that Article.dtl is where this comes from initially but how do I pass data to that so that the fields are filled in?

Any ideas? Thanks...Dan.

[crythias]

Do you want to pass client side, server side, or via URL?

[dstover]

I would think server side. I do not want the client side to know that it happened. I just want to bring up an activity dialog screen that includes a normally blank article with the article fields filled in (Subject, Body, attachments, etc.) from a previously entered article. I think I can get the data from the previous article and save it behind the scenes if I can figure out how to load that activity dialog screen.

Thanks...Dan.