Adding An Image to the top node

Sunday 07 November 2004 2:34:38 pm

I can't seem to add an image to the top node content page of my ezsite. I have been navigating around the admin area but I can't work out how to do it. when I try to edit the page it comes up as an article where I can't upload the image. In the case where I can add an image it comes out as an article and the image also appears in the latest news section,this is not what I want.All I want is a static image on the front page. I have tried to use the "Related to" object, the image came on the related to box but in the admin area, it didn't appear on the topnode where I want it to be.

Can this be done with the admin interface or do I have to go into the code to place a line of code to achieve this? If this is the solution what is the code and where do I palce it? thanks.

Sunday 07 November 2004 2:58:00 pm

Let's say I may need some welcome text, how do I achieve this?

1. how do I create the image object and where / which is the root folder?

Can you please explain like you are telling a first time learner. I will understand better that way.

Monday 08 November 2004 3:05:37 pm

Guess what it worked. Thank you very much that was painless yet effective. I'm wondering does that mean you can upload any media in the same way e.g flash animation, video and audio files?

The image I think was shrinked, is there a way of uploading an image and keeping the original size?

And how do you have different sections of the site on the topnode /or frontpage e.g news, media, forums all on the front page in small veiwable sections?

Tuesday 09 November 2004 12:28:20 pm

Wowwwww thanks for that code it worked very well.

Yes I want to do something similar to the community frontpage in fact exactly the way it is.

I also want to get rid of the lines and have dots instead of the lines and have a different color in the footer. Thanks again for your valuable expert skills.

Thursday 11 November 2004 1:09:27 am

Our community page is made up of related objects. The page is simply a XML field with a table. A related object is placed inside each of the table cells. The embed template fetches the 5 newest children and display them in a unorderd list. To achieve this you must create an embed override template for the class you want to edit. Example of an override entry:

[embed_class_article]
Source=content/view/embed.tpl
MatchFile=embed_class_article.tpl
Subdir=templates
Match[class]=2

And in your embed template fetch and display children. Example:

{let items=fetch('content','list',hash( parent_node_id, $object.main_node_id,
                                        limit, 5,
                                        class_filter_type, include,
                                        class_filter_array, array( 'comment' ),
                                        sort_by, array( array( 'published', false() ) ) ) )}

{section show=$items}
    <ul>
    {section var=Child loop=$items}
        <li><a href={$Child.item.url_alias|ezurl}>{$Child.item.name|wash}</a></li>
    {/section}
    </ul>
{/section}
{/let}

The above example will fetch 5 children of class 'comment' and display them in a list. (as on the community page).

If you want to change the appearance of your site the .css files is the place to edit. A basic site is made up of 3 .css files. core.css, site.css and a color css. A good way to find out which css is used on your site is to view the source. In Internet Explorer do this by View -> Source.

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