Learn an alternative way to include web app edit and delete tags that will allow you to change the link text and have better overall control of the HTML
Business Catalyst provides tags that allow visitors logged into a secure zone to edit or delete a web app item. Depending on how the web app is set up, users can edit all web app items or just be allowed to edit their own submissions. Users are only allowed to delete their own submissions. If users try to delete an entry that was created by someone else, they will get re-directed to an error screen that says, "ERROR: You cannot edit an item that was not submitted by you in the first place."
The tag you would insert to edit is {tag_edit} and this will output an <a> link that surrounds the text, "Edit".
The tag you would insert to delete is {tag_delete} and this will output an <a> link that surrounds text, "Delete".
This allows you to edit the HTML of the tag or change the link text from "Edit" to something else.
This allows you to edit the HTML of the tag or change the link text from "Delete" to something else.
As I said before, users are only allowed to delete their own submissions. However, the user may not be aware of such an issue so it may be nice to include an "onclick" event on the delete link as a way to alert the user of this issue before they get automatically re-directed to the error page.
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