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  1. Blossom
  2. BLOSSOM-173

How do I develop Webflow components that are editable in the Magnolia Author

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      Firstly, I will describe a little about the current implementation of our website in Magnolia. Then I'll describe the problem that I am facing.

      We have a website that contains a booking flow. The flow contains a number of pages - search, results, itinerary, payment, confirmation.

      At this current moment, the booking flow has been developed as a Blossom Webflow component. This means that the component can be dropped into an area inside a magnolia template.

      The problem is this - the business wants to be able to control the booking flow pages from within the author. For example:

      The search page is a JSP inside the web application. It is mapped within the webflow view state and resolved by a Spring view resolver. But the business wants to author this page - the business wants to add/remove components to the search page. Also the business want to do the same for other booking flow pages from within the author.

      How can we achieve this? Is there a way of defining the pages inside magnolia author and for the Webflow view states to map to them?

      We've looked into a couple of potential solutions - the best looking solution involves redirects, e.g.

      <view-state id="results" view="externalRedirect:contextRelative:results.html?flowExecutionUrl=#

      {flowExecutionUrl}

      ">

      This 'works' (there are a few quirks) up until we start to use the Webflow asynchronous support which should return a fragment from the page. Redirecting won't be compatible with this solution

      Do you have a magnolia specific solution (or in fact any solution) to this problem?

      Hopefully this describes the problems we're facing - its sometimes difficult to explain more complex problems outside of a conversation so please let me know if any of this is unclear.

      Cheers,

      Tony

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