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Alexander Celle

Wednesday 16 July 2003 5:00:54 pm

Hi, I've been trying for several days to create new view modes and have not been able to do so.

I read somewhere in this site that it was as easy as creating a template in /override/content/node/view/newmode.tpl and then call it with mode=newmode.

I did that but it won't work. I even created the template in /standard/content/node/view/ and nothing happened.

Any ideas of what's wrong?m (my version is 3.1.1)
Thanks,
Alex

Claire Lin

Wednesday 16 July 2003 5:53:15 pm

Have you cleared all cache manually? WHen things do not work as expected I go to the cache directory and delete everything manually.

If cache is not an issue, the following is how I created my own view modes with "extension":
1. create the following directories under Exponential folder
/extension/YOUREXTENSION/design/standard/templates/node/view (replace YOUREXTENSION with whatever you want to call your extension)

2. Let Exponential knows about your newly created extension by adding the following line to
setting/override/site.ini.append.php: (create the directories and the file site.ini.append.php if they do not exist)
[ExtensionSettings]
ActiveExtensions[]=STEExtension

3.
Let Exponential knows to look for extra template files under the design folder of YOUREXTENSION, add the following to /extension/YOUREXTENSION/settings/design.ini.append (create the directories and the file design.ini.append if they do not exist)
[ExtensionSettings]
DesignExtensions[]=STEExtension

4. Create any template file for your view mode. Say you want to use a mode called "simple". Create simple.tpl and put it in the directory you created in step 1(/extension/YOUREXTENSION/design/standard/templates/node/view).
5. Now you should be able to view any content node (for example node 123) by typing this url:
.../content/view/simple/123

I hope that I didn't miss any steps. Good luck.

Claire Lin

Alexander Celle

Wednesday 16 July 2003 9:44:57 pm

I followed your steps carefully and worked perfectly. I also found a couple of "official" pages with the help you gave me (btw, this extension system looks great!!)

The page is:
http://www.ez.no/developer/ez_publish_3/documentation/development/extensions/introduction_to_extensions

Although it does not mention the need for the design.ini file

Thanks for the help

Vicente Olivan

Friday 31 March 2006 9:16:39 am

Help, one question

Is necessary to create one extension for additional viewmodes templates?

Example

/design/base/override/templates/full/article.tpl
/design/base/override/templates/line/article.tpl
/design/base/override/templates/other_1/article.tpl
/design/base/override/templates/other_2/article.tpl

some other form to do it

Vasilii Pascal

Thursday 14 December 2006 4:29:39 am

Hi , thanks for your steps they help me too ,but to display only html :) .
How can i fetch any data from sometable and assign them to /node/view/sometemplate.tpl
Or what script or class is responding for this operation ,or how can i make my extention class be automatic executed by EZ on user site access .

sometemplate.tpl 


{foreach $List_Arr as $rec}
{$rec.id}{$rec.name}
{/foreach}

 

thanks !