I am using a Content page as the home page for my site. It shows the latest articles from the News module. I would like people to be able to click on the Category title and go to the specific Category.
I'm running Zikula 1.2.8.
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Posted: Jan 06, 2012 - 11:50 AM
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Posted: Jan 08, 2012 - 04:05 AM
You would have to adjust the template then. If you know where to look you can take the index and article templates and see how it is done there and then copy that stuff to the newsarticles Content template.
If you cant get it to work let us know
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Posted: Jan 08, 2012 - 07:09 AM
In content you can choose as a content type "Module display" and choose then "News" from the modules list. This will put the news Index with the news menu on your homepage.
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Posted: Jan 08, 2012 - 08:19 AM
He already is using that part, but Christopher wants to adjust how that included news looks within Content.
At least that is what I understood
The templates fro the Content newsarticles plugin can be adjusted for that part.
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Posted: Jan 08, 2012 - 10:51 AM
I know that he uses the News article display plugin in content, but before it where you choose the content type is one called "Module display" this one display the original output of an module.
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Posted: Jan 09, 2012 - 12:28 PM
Hi Erik and Carl,
Erik is indeed correct. It looks like I am going to need to adjust the templates. I just need to figure out where the templates are located.
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Posted: Jan 09, 2012 - 09:12 PM
In the News/pntemplates/contenttype/
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Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 04:51 PM
Got it. So how do I make the necessary changes to create links?
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Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 05:56 PM
Take a look in the News/pntemplates/news_user_articlecontent.htm or news_user_index.htm
from the news_user_index.htm
Code
<!--[if !empty($info.categories)]-->
<!--[gt text='Filed under:']-->
<!--[foreach name='categorylinks' from=$preformat.categories item='categorylink']-->
<!--[$categorylink]--><!--[if $smarty.foreach.categorylinks.last neq true]-->, <!--[/if]-->
<!--[/foreach]-->
<span class="text_separator">|</span>
<!--[/if]-->
from the news_user_articlecontent.htm
Code
<!--[if !empty($info.categories)]-->
<!--[gt text='Filed under:']-->
<!--[foreach name='categorylinks' from=$preformat.categories item='categorylink']-->
<!--[$categorylink]--><!--[if $smarty.foreach.categorylinks.last neq true]-->, <!--[/if]-->
<!--[/foreach]-->
I still don't understand, I'm using content 3.2 and using as contentype "Modules display" it shows the news_user_index.htm including the news menu
I only choose add new content to page I get the content type selector, choose there Module Display
choose than at the modules selector news publisher in function and user type fill in user and display and I get the News Index page in my content page and not the Plugin page from the contenttype folder.
Edited by mazdev on Jan 11, 2012 - 01:00 PM.
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Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 06:22 PM
That's exactly what I did. What I'd like it to do is make the category names into links to the articles in that category.
For example, on my site, one of the news categories is "Local News". Right now it's just text but I'd like it to be a link to all of the other articles filed under Local News.
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Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 08:54 PM
Actually the code above is the code for the category links.
Maybe it doesn't show as the files are in the contenttype directory. You could try to set the link yourself, something like this:
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<!--[if !empty($info.categories)]-->
<!--[gt text='Filed under:']-->
<!--[foreach name='categorylinks' from=$preformat.categories item='categorylink']-->
<a href="<!--[pnmodurl modname='News' type='user' func='view' prop=$property.name cat=$category.category.id ]-->"><!--[$categorylink]--></a> <!--[if $smarty.foreach.categorylinks.last neq true]-->, <!--[/if]-->
<!--[/foreach]-->
<span class="text_separator">|</span>
<!--[/if]-->
You still could give it a try with the "Module display" contentype instead of the "Recent News Articles" contenttype. That's how I get always my News Index page to display in my Contents Homepage.
As I don't like the News Menu on the Homepage, I only put then in the news_user_view.htm
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<!--[if $pagetype neq 'home']-->
<!--[nocache]--><!--[include file='news_user_menu.htm']--><!--[/nocache]-->
<!--[/if]-->
Edited by mazdev on Jan 11, 2012 - 04:05 PM.
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Posted: Feb 02, 2012 - 07:58 PM
Well, I tried all that and it still didn't work. Any other suggestions?
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Posted: Feb 03, 2012 - 07:14 AM
Hi, the templates for the newsarticles plugin for Content is in News/pntemplates/contenttype (so within the News module itself), but you already got that.
You can add category links by editing News/pntemplates/contenttype/newsarticles_view.html
This template for Content does not have the preformatted links available in the regular News templates. So you cannot use for instance $links.searchtopic etc.
In the newsarticles_view.html templates you see at the bottom (in News 262) a line that says"Remove this line to use the topic link and topicimage per News item as below", some code and again such a line. If you remove both lines you enable the category link display if all is right.
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<!--[* Remove this line to use the topic link and topicimage per News item as below -->
<!--[if $story.topicsearchurl neq '']-->
<div class="content_newsarticles_news_meta"><a href="<!--[$story.topicsearchurl]-->"><!--[if $story.topicimage neq '']--><img src="<!--[$catimagepath]--><!--[$story.topicimage]-->" alt="<!--[$story.topicname|pnvarprephtmldisplay]-->" title="<!--[$story.topicname|pnvarprephtmldisplay]-->" /><!--[else]--><!--[$story.topicname|pnvarprephtmldisplay]--><!--[/if]--></a></div>
<!--[/if]-->
<!-- Remove this line to use the topic link and topicimage per News item as above *]-->
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Posted: Feb 03, 2012 - 08:52 AM
I tried that before and it didn't work. I did try it again and cleared my site cache and still no luck.
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Posted: Feb 03, 2012 - 09:31 AM
You do have version 2.6.2 from the ext DB of News. And no templates in other locations, like in your theme or so for this part. Is there anything shown at all from those lines.
You can add pndebug at the bottom of the newsarticles_view.html template to see what variables are available. Check for the items in the stories array and if topicsearchurl, topic name etc are there.
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