Get Current Culture in Custom Property Editor when loaded in a Block Slide Out Panel

Questions
1

I am building a custom property editor that needs to pass the current culture in an API call.

My code is as follows:

  this.consumeContext(UMB_PROPERTY_DATASET_CONTEXT, (dataset) => {

      if (!dataset) return;

         const variantId = dataset.getVariantId?.();

         const culture = variantId?.culture ?? undefined;

         console.log("Dataset culture:", culture);

    }).passContextAliasMatches();

This code works if my property editor is on the content node however it doesnt work if I am in the slide out panel. I thought adding .passContextAliasMatches() would resolve this however no luck.

Anyone done anything similar?

2

Hi Marc,

I would use the Variant Context, can you try this:

		this.consumeContext(UMB_VARIANT_CONTEXT, (context) => {
			this.observe(context?.variantId, (variantId) => {
				...
			});
		});

This one is properly first available in 17.2, but we introduced a new VariantId that you may need in your case; this one is relevant in the case of mixing ariant and invariant Blocks.
Cause when writting a invariant block, the variant id would have a null culture. But you may want to know the culture that the data is stored for, then you can use this:

		this.consumeContext(UMB_VARIANT_CONTEXT, (context) => {
			this.observe(context?.displayVariantId, (variantId) => {
				...
			});
		});

Let me know how it goes, Good luck :slight_smile:

3

Thanks Niels, will keep you posted. Laptop died this morning so just sorting things out and will check this code later today.

4

Hi Neils,

Getting the following error with the second example:

Property ‘displayVariantId’ does not exist on type ‘UmbVariantContext’

First example runs however culture is null as you explained.

5

Hi @marc_love, so then you’re in the same case as the reason for introducing the displayVariantId.
Please await 17.2 then.

The alternative here and now ‘hack’ would be to consume UMB_CONTENT_PROPERTY_DATASET_CONTEXT with .passContextAliasMatches() so you’re not blocked by the first property dataset it meets.

This will give you the variantId of the picked variant in the variant-selector.

But notice this will work well in Global Blocks, and there might be other future features that will ruin this. So again from 17.2 please use the UMB_VARIANT_CONTEXT as this is decoupled from the Block to belong on a Content(Document/Media/Member)

6

No worries, Niels, I can work around it for now :+1: