[opencms-dev] Getting the "add new content" direct edit icon in empty collector / getCreateLink

[Alexander Fritz]

Hello everyone,

I miss the green "+" direct edit icon in a collector (created with the 
cms:contentload tag)
that does not contain any items yet.
Anyone found a solution how to get that icon show up anyway?

I tried to work around it by getting the link that lets the Direct Edit 
User create
a new XML Content:
org.opencms.file.collectors.I_CmsResourceCollector collector = 
org.opencms.main.OpenCms.getResourceManager().getContentCollector("allInFolderPriorityDateDesc");
String newLink = collector.getCreateLink(cms, 
"allInFolderPriorityDateDesc", 
"${request.folder}article_${number}.html|article");

However, it will in any case result the String "/article_0001.html", no 
matter if and how
many of the XML-Contents are in the folder yet.
I don't understand why I am getting such a return value as getCreateLink 
is documented like:
"Returns the link that must be executed when a user clicks on the direct 
edit "new" button on
a list created by the named collector."
I am using OpenCms 7.0.4.

Best Regards
Alex