Wednesday 12 May 2004 1:50:47 pm

Well, I tried creating a new folder called Restaurants (to keep the model simple) and then created another called italian under that. Created a new class called restaurant and created a restarant called Vincent's Restaurant within the Italian folder. This doesn't get listed under the Italian folder. Only new articles are listed. How do I list Restaurants under this folder? (They can be listed using the same template as an Article.) Next I'd like to be able to use the class Menu Item to add items that will be listed under the restaurant.

I imagine this is done using templates, but the more I try to copy a template or even create a new one, the more I go around in circles without actaully creating anything.

Wednesday 12 May 2004 2:30:33 pm

hehe thanks! Ok, I see it now. How do I use the regular article template for the restaurant template? I'd like it to look the same, except show any of the Menu class items that I create under it. :) Maybe I'm moving too fast for my own good. :)

Wednesday 12 May 2004 9:54:30 pm

OMG I'm going crazy now. :) I'm at a new computer, and no matter what I do I cant edit the restaurant.tpl template again. I keep getting "<b>Could not create template, permission denied.</b>"

No matter what I click on, no matter where i go I can't find that screen that lists the templates with the little edit icons next to them. Why is this so hard to find? It's been two hours and still no luck. Any idea why I can't Create New templates all of a sudden? Actually, i don't even want to Create New, I want to edit the template I already made. I called it restaurant.tpl. I tried clicking on Update and it just redrew the same page. I double checked all of my permissions - taking a cue from this link: http://ez.no/community/forum/setup_design/could_not_create_template_permission_denied - but that wasn't the problem since everthing is set to 777 or 666. I guess the problem could be an owner/creater type thing - but if that was the case why was it working earlier today, but not now?

I really wanted to figure out the template system tonight, but I cant even figure out how to LOOK at one in ezPublish. Am I just being dense about this, or is it this obtuse on purpose? Why doesn't the Admin > Template listing have EDIT icons next to them?

Vincent "It's late and I'm stressed and annoyed" Macaluso :)

Thursday 13 May 2004 8:00:25 am

Agree that the documentation is weak, but there is a lot of useful stuff there - it's just not easy to find.

That said, one thing that you'll find useful:

{$object|attribute(show,2)}

Replace $object with the thing you're having problems with.

It's also helpful to sometimes turn on the template debugging - I think you can add:

[TemplateSettings]
Debug=enabled

and you'll see exactly what templates are getting included. You can then copy them into your local tree and change them to suit what you're doing.

It's usually more helpful to view the debug output with view->source.

Thursday 13 May 2004 8:30:29 am

That said, one thing that you'll find useful:

{$object|attribute(show,2)}

Hmm. I don't quite understand what you mean. Sorry!

Thursday 13 May 2004 9:03:53 am

Hmmm. Nothing showed up. Am I doing the fetch wrong? The current node ID is 217 so I tried using the following and it returned blank as well:

{section loop=fetch( 'content', 'list', hash(parent_node_id, 217)}

{$:item|attribute(show,2)}
<a href={$:item.url_alias|ezurl}>{$:item.item_name}</a><br>

{/section}

Thursday 13 May 2004 11:55:55 am

Awesome! Now, one more and I think I'm on my way to figuring this out.

Now that I have a list of all attributes, how do I just pick out the three that I want?
Could you break apart what each part of {$:item|attribute(show,2)} is doing, so I can put it together?

I promise once I get the baby steps I'll be able to get more on my own! Thanks so much for your help!

<b>Edit:</b>
Ok, I got it. Sort of. I used

{section loop=fetch( 'content', 'list', hash(parent_node_id, 217))}
<a href={$:item.url_alias|ezurl}>{$:item.name|wash}</a><br>
{/section}

And it gace me the links to each item.

Ok, so lets say I want to go one further and take out the information from the object itself. (are these what the >'s indicate? One is >item_price Is this located within the datamap?

{section loop=fetch( 'content', 'list', hash(parent_node_id, 217))}
{$:item|attribute(show,2)}
<a href={$:item.url_alias|ezurl}>{$:item.name|wash}</a><br>
{$ContentObject:item.item_description|washl} {$ContentObject:item.item_price|wash}
{/section}

Didn't work. Maybe something like:

{section loop=fetch( 'content', 'list', hash(parent_node_id, 217))}
{$:item|attribute(show,2)}
<a href={$:item.url_alias|ezurl}>{$:item.name|wash}</a><br>
{$ContentObject:item.data_map.item_description|washl} {$ContentObject:item.data_map.item_price|wash}
{/section}

Vincent