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Luc Chase	Tuesday 14 October 2003 3:31:13 am I've managed to customise the main pagelayout.tpl template to my site, but all of my content is following that one template. How to I get different types of content to use a different template? For example I might want the pagelayout.tpl for the home page but a slightly different layout for the other pages of the site which have a different layout for more text. How do I associate an item of content or a type of content with a template? I suspect that it is something in the overides but I can't workout how to make the connection. The Web Application Service Provider
Karsten Jennissen	Tuesday 14 October 2003 5:10:45 am You are correct, you use the override.ini to define which template is used. See http://ez.no/developer/ez_publish_3/documentation/customization/custom_design/override_templates What did you do to customize the pagelayout.tpl? Did you start with copying the /design/demo folder to /design/yourdesign, set up the /settings/siteaccess/yoursite/site.ini.append to point to /design/yourdesign, etc.? If you did all that, then /settings/siteaccess/yoursite/override.ini.append is what you edit to match the pages with templates. Karsten
Luc Chase	Tuesday 14 October 2003 8:21:52 am Okay, thanks for the link to the appropriate bit of documentation. I'm working through it now. I know NOW that I should have done a new design directory and created my template for my new site there but I didn't. I used the corporate design files and just edited them (extensively) until I arrived at where I am now. A few more questions... What is the difference between the overides.ini and the overides.ini.append? Is it generally correct to edit the .ini.append rather than the .ini whenever possible? Does the .ini.append list extra 'exceptions' to the .ini ? I created a folder within a folder and then added a product, but in user mode, although the site displays the product it also invites the user to create a custom template for the product ( I think it is using the 'last-resort' standard-design template because 'corporate' does not use products ) ; I've tried to configure a template from the bookshop design but still I get the 'Default object view. Click to create a custom template' prompt... do I still need to edit an overide.ini and/or overide.ini.append file to get it (Class ID: 8) to use my new product template? Finally, what is the variable I need to reference to get the 'owner id' of the individual product instance? I want to send an e-mail to notify the original 'owner/editor' of the original (or current) version of the product whenever it is ordered. i.e. If there are two different products in the basket of an order, I'll need to send two different e-mails to the two people (suppliers) who entered the products into the system. The Web Application Service Provider

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Tuesday 14 October 2003 3:31:13 am

I've managed to customise the main pagelayout.tpl template to my site, but all of my content is following that one template. How to I get different types of content to use a different template? For example I might want the pagelayout.tpl for the home page but a slightly different layout for the other pages of the site which have a different layout for more text. How do I associate an item of content or a type of content with a template? I suspect that it is something in the overides but I can't workout how to make the connection.

The Web Application Service Provider

Karsten Jennissen

Tuesday 14 October 2003 5:10:45 am

You are correct, you use the override.ini to define which template is used.

See http://ez.no/developer/ez_publish_3/documentation/customization/custom_design/override_templates

What did you do to customize the pagelayout.tpl? Did you start with copying the /design/demo folder to /design/yourdesign, set up the /settings/siteaccess/yoursite/site.ini.append to point to /design/yourdesign, etc.?

If you did all that, then /settings/siteaccess/yoursite/override.ini.append is what you edit to match the pages with templates.

Karsten

Luc Chase

Tuesday 14 October 2003 8:21:52 am

Okay, thanks for the link to the appropriate bit of documentation. I'm working through it now.

I know NOW that I should have done a new design directory and created my template for my new site there but I didn't. I used the corporate design files and just edited them (extensively) until I arrived at where I am now.

A few more questions...
What is the difference between the overides.ini and the overides.ini.append? Is it generally correct to edit the .ini.append rather than the .ini whenever possible? Does the .ini.append list extra 'exceptions' to the .ini ?

I created a folder within a folder and then added a product, but in user mode, although the site displays the product it also invites the user to create a custom template for the product ( I think it is using the 'last-resort' standard-design template because 'corporate' does not use products ) ; I've tried to configure a template from the bookshop design but still I get the 'Default object view. Click to create a custom template' prompt... do I still need to edit an overide.ini and/or overide.ini.append file to get it (Class ID: 8) to use my new product template?

Finally, what is the variable I need to reference to get the 'owner id' of the individual product instance? I want to send an e-mail to notify the original 'owner/editor' of the original (or current) version of the product whenever it is ordered. i.e. If there are two different products in the basket of an order, I'll need to send two different e-mails to the two people (suppliers) who entered the products into the system.

The Web Application Service Provider

eZ debug

Timing:	Jan 18 2025 19:09:09
Script start
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 19:09:09
Module start 'layout'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 19:09:09
Module start 'content'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 19:09:10
Module end 'content'
Timing:	Jan 18 2025 19:09:10
Script end

Main resources:

Total runtime	0.6506 sec
Peak memory usage	4,096.0000 KB
Database Queries	57

Timing points:

Checkpoint	Start (sec)	Duration (sec)	Memory at start (KB)	Memory used (KB)
Script start	0.0000	0.0049	589.0313	152.6250
Module start 'layout'	0.0049	0.0036	741.6563	39.4453
Module start 'content'	0.0085	0.6405	781.1016	499.0313
Module end 'content'	0.6490	0.0015	1,280.1328	12.1641
Script end	0.6505		1,292.2969

Time accumulators:

Accumulator	Duration (sec)	Duration (%)	Count	Average (sec)
Ini load
Load cache	0.0031	0.4726	16	0.0002
Check MTime	0.0013	0.2022	16	0.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection	0.0007	0.1004	1	0.0007
Mysqli_queries	0.6058	93.1237	57	0.0106
Looping result	0.0006	0.0886	55	0.0000
Template Total	0.6214	95.5	2	0.3107
Template load	0.0017	0.2678	2	0.0009
Template processing	0.6197	95.2546	2	0.3098
Template load and register function	0.0002	0.0261	1	0.0002
states
state_id_array	0.0012	0.1805	1	0.0012
state_identifier_array	0.0010	0.1589	2	0.0005
Override
Cache load	0.0014	0.2182	17	0.0001
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value	0.0007	0.1136	2	0.0004
Fetch class attribute name	0.0012	0.1802	3	0.0004
XML
Image XML parsing	0.0002	0.0320	2	0.0001
class_abstraction
Instantiating content class attribute	0.0000	0.0010	3	0.0000
General
dbfile	0.0007	0.1018	10	0.0001
String conversion	0.0000	0.0014	4	0.0000
Note: percentages do not add up to 100% because some accumulators overlap

Templates used to render the page:

Usage	Requested template	Template	Template loaded
1	node/view/full.tpl	full/forum_topic.tpl	extension/sevenx/design/simple/override/templates/full/forum_topic.tpl
3	content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl	<No override>	extension/community_design/design/suncana/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltext.tpl
4	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl	<No override>	extension/ezwebin/design/ezwebin/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/paragraph.tpl
1	content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl	<No override>	design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/line.tpl
1	print_pagelayout.tpl	<No override>	extension/community/design/community/templates/print_pagelayout.tpl
Number of times templates used: 10 Number of unique templates used: 5

Time used to render debug report: 0.0003 secs