[solved] Selflink inside News item not evaluated

[krussell]

When I place a selflink inside the content of a News item, the selflink code is displayed as literal text, rather than being evaluated as a URL within the <a> link tag.

i.e. I get

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<a href="{cms_selflink%20href='foo'}">This is a test</a>

instead of

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<a href="http://mywebsite.com/foo">This is a test</a>

Selflinks work fine for me within regular page content or global content blocks.
Is there any workaround for this, or is it a restriction of the way the News module content is evaluated?
Thanks

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[uniqu3]

Use {eval var=$entry->content} in your Template.

[krussell]

Spot on. Thank you very much.

[wpbremer]

Use {eval var=$entry->content} in your Template.

Hi I run into the same problem, but where exactly do I place these code and in which Template?

Thanks in advance

Edit: solved it by checking an option in TinyMCE

[chrisbt]

Hi wpbremer -

Edit: solved it by checking an option in TinyMCE

Which option solved this in TinyMCE?

Thanks

Chris

[Dr.CSS]

@wpbremer
That would go in the summary and detail template of news so it can evaluate any smarty code in the content, you would need to do the same thing to the summary call in a template if it has code like that in it...

@chrisbt
Most likely they changed the setting for self link in tiny admin, advanced tab, making it use <a href= instead of {cms_selflink}...

[chrisbt]

Thanks @Dr.CSS - makes sense. I think I'll stick with smarty eval as a fix as it feels a more robust solution. Cheers.