[SOLVED] Handlebars snippet loading: differences between > and +?

OL Connect Professional Designer
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While studying the subject I read the following two articles that mention loading a snippet in two different ways.
From other searches on the internet the + syntax isn’t part of the handlebars.js library, so I assume it’s a custom implementation of OL-Connect.

The only difference I understand is that the + symbol allows loading from external sources like the local disk or HTTP requests while > only loads from the local template snippets folder. Is there additional documentation on the subject?

This article illustrates the use of +


While this article illustrates the use of >

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Hi Maxiride,

We introduced the + syntax to enable the helper to function correctly when used in the main editor of the designer. While its behavior mirrors that of the > syntax, the > symbol does not work in the main editor because it gets interpreted as HTML (&gt>). Therefore, we opted for the + sign as a suitable alternative. Note that both notations are supported in Handlebars snippets.

Hope this helps,

Erik

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Thanks, that’s the confirmation I needed =)

Indeed, it was a bit of a pain working always in the source pane to workaround the issue.

Solved!