Mercury Dokumentation

Article:The formatter "Accordion article teaser"

The article is suitable for creating news, press releases or blogs with optional images and texts in multiple paragraphs.

The accordion teaser displays the content in the form of an accordiont that is automatically generated by the list.

A special feature of accordion lists is that they do NOT link to a detail view, as all essential information of the content is already displayed in the accordion.

This teaser can only be used in a static list.

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List with accordion article teasers

Baukasten für Datenschutzerklärungen

The new dynamic “Privacy Policy Kit” feature allows editors to create a privacy policy based on predefined standard texts.

Landkarte mit Markierungen

The map view has been expanded to include the option of displaying information about events taking place at the selected location in the marker pop-up.

A list of events can be displayed together with a map. Previously, however, only the locations where the events took place were shown as markers on the map. This meant that it was not clear which event were taking place at that location.

With version 19, in addition to the address of a location, the next events at that location can now also be displayed in a marker pop-up. In addition, all events at that location can be displayed as a list via a link in the pop-up.

Man in front of a wall with many pictures

In the dialog for selecting a category, the system now automatically displays the most recently used categories in the new “Recently used” view.

View of the most recently used categories

Selecting categories in the form editor can be tedious, especially if there are a lot of categories and subcategories.

Users who have to assign the same categories over and over again often have had to “click” their way through the tree.

With version 19, the dialog for assigning categories in the form editor has been expanded to include the new “Last used” option. In this view, the system now automatically remembers the 50 most recently used categories. These are displayed in exactly the same way as in the “Tree” view, whereby the tree is reduced to the most recently used entries. 

A category is considered “used” if the user has clicked the checkbox for this category in one of the other views. 

The most recently used categories are saved individually for each user. If more than 50 categories are clicked over time, the system automatically removes the “oldest” from the “Last used” view.

Frau schaut durch eine Lupe

The “Meta Info” content element has been expanded and can now also be used to influence the order of hits in the internal search.

Eine junge Frau liegt auf dem Boden und liest Bücher

The Storyteller builds a screen-filling sequence of animated content with its own navigation. The display of each individual “page” can be customized.

Vertraulich bis zur Veröffentlichung

Content, such as news articles, which must remain visible only to certain editors until publication, even in the offline project, can now be easily created in the editor.

Occasionally, certain content, such as news articles, may only be visible to specific editors until it is published in the offline project, but should be visible to everyone after publication. With version 23-12, such content can now be easily created in the editor. Previously, this was only possible with considerable effort by manually setting permissions.

Mercury Newsletter im 'Cöln' Layout

The newsletter in the “Cöln” layoutDer in der letzten Version hinzugefügte Newsletter im “Cöln” Layout wurde um zusätzliche Ausgabemöglichkeiten erweitert. Möglich ist nun unter anderem die Verwendung von Icons sowie das links bzw. rechts Anordnen des Bildes neben den Text.

The following output options have been added:

  • Social media links.
  • People or contact elements with image and text.
  • Display of events with a “calendar look.”
  • Content section, article, and event with image on the left or right.

The new output options can, of course, be combined with the existing ones.

Man sieht die Hände einer feiernden Menschenmenge im rotem Licht. Das Wort 'Community' wird verschwommen an die Wand darüber projiziert.

The Mercury functions are described in the documentation.

The Mercury template documentation is created specifically for the OpenCms community. It describes both the basic functions of the Mercury template and customer-specific additions.

New content is added to the documentation with each new version.

Further examples and descriptions for lists with accordion article teasers (de)

Available element settings

CSS modification (Select box)

Allows to change the element layout using predefined CSS modifications.

Please note that a specific element may not support all listed modifications.

Teaser headline (Select/combo box)

Controls the importance level of the teaser headline in the list elements.

This is relevant for search engines (SEO) and will not change the visual "size" of the teaser headline.

Image format (mobile) (Select/combo box)

The image format for small screens like smartphones.

Allows you to set the image size based on common formats.

The image will automatically be scaled so that the original pixels are best fitted to the selected target format.

Instead of the presets, you can also manually enter any format. Use "width-height", for example "5-1" for an extreme wide format.

Image format (desktop) (Select/combo box)

The image format for large desktop screens.

Allows you to set the image size based on common formats.

The image will automatically be scaled so that the original pixels are best fitted to the selected target format.

Instead of the presets, you can also manually enter any format. Use "width-height", for example "5-1" for an extreme wide format.

Open first entry (Check box)
Opens the first entry when the page is loaded.
Multiple entries open (Check box)

Controls if multiple entries in the accordion can be opened simultaneously.

If this is not set opening an entry automatically closes the entry that is currently open.

Show image zoom (Check box)
A zoom option is added to the images.
Show image copyright (Check box)

Controls if the copyright information for teaser images is displayed as an overlay.

Show image title (Check box)
If available, the image title is displayed below the image.