SXA Scriban Dynamic Placeholders

Question

I am trying to render a dynamic placeholder with the Scriban as follows:

{{ sc_placeholder 'section' }}

and I would expect it to add a number to the key i.e. section-3, etc, but this is what I see as a result:

which is not what I expected.

P.s. I have the IsRenderingsWithDynamicPlaceholders property set to true on my rendering item.

Is there anything I am missing?

Answer 1

Using asterix at the end of your placeholder key in Scriban will solve your issue. (It works well in SXA 10.1)

{{ sc_placeholder "myplaceholderkey*" }}

Answer 2

I was finding that using the wildcard naming convention (with the * ) did not work with Sitecore 9.3. I suspect they added support for using the wildcard convention in Sitecore 10.

If you are on Sitecore 9.3, an alternative is to roll your own dynamic placeholder logic. Taking a cue from how SXA does it, you can leverage the value of the DynamicPlaceholderId rendering parameter. For example:

{{ dynamic_placeholder_id = sc_parameter "DynamicPlaceholderId" }}
{{ sc_placeholder "NameOfThePlaceholder-" + dynamic_placeholder_id }}

You could also take this a step further and write your own custom Scriban extension that leverages the same DynamicPlaceholderId value and then you could call it like this:

{{ sc_dynamic_placeholder "NameOfThePlaceholder" }}

Answer 3

Use the asterisk sign at the end of the placeholder name: Ex.

{{ sc_placeholder "NameofthePlaceholder*" }}

and it will add no to the key like this NameofthePlaceholder-1-1