How many hours have you lost installing and testing ezpublish?

Sunday 18 May 2003 2:17:28 am

"...suggest that you try to assign your new created class "News" to a section. If you are able to assign this class to a section which already exists, I suppose it will work."

Class? Section? I did not create a class "News", I created a folder "News". Admin only gave me a pulldown menu for creating "Folder,Article,User,User Group,Image". Within "News" I created a couple of articles. I saw no options for Section, although all are being displayed as having Section 1.

Sunday 18 May 2003 3:53:46 am

Scot,

the sections are the glue for nodes to their pagelayout. Depending on the section you assign to a node, it will be rendered in a different design. Go to Set-up - > Section. There you see the section list. Choose the section you want to apply, click on assign and then browse through the node hierarchy to assign.

Section 1 is "Standard Section" which i think is linked to the plain design. Check /design/demo/override/templates/pagelayout_section_N.tpl for the layout of different sections.

See Community docs -> Technology & Basics -> Custom designs - directory structure explained

Karsten

Sunday 18 May 2003 11:45:14 am

Karsten,
Demo actually overrides the Section 1 format.
Indeed, my testing is in a directory which is a copy of the Demo structure. All that I have changed so far is override/templates/pagelayout_section_1.tpl. There is a news_list=fetch() to grab the news which have a parent_node_id (which I changed to the node_id of the News folder which I created).

I see (by using $node.children|attribute(show) from the root Folder) that folder News has an Array with 2 items in it, yet no children, so I think an Article within a Folder does not have that Folder as a Parent -- I haven't found where such relationships are documented, and haven't tried creating news items as Folders within the News Folder because my Demo formatting vanished and I'm trying to figure out how to make it return.

Indeed, until Demo's display vanished the attribute(show) which I was using in pagelayout_section_1.tpl were being displayed, so at that time I was indeed using that override template.