CMSMS 1.11 - News custom fields syntax has changed

[zenojl]

Hi,

If you have written customized templates for the news module with CMSMS 1.10.3, you may be interested by this post.
It took me some time to figure out why my news page had some elements missing after I upgraded to 1.11, and here is the solution to this issue.

It deals with the display of custom field in summary template.

In CMSMS 10.0.3 you could write if you have a custom field named "header_image"

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{if $entry->header_image}
		<img class="header-image" src="{$entry->file_location}/{$entry->header_image}"/>
{/if}

In CMSMS 1.11, in a summary template, this does not work anymore (no "header_image" field is defined in $entry). You have to write instead:

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{if $entry->fields.header_image->value}
		<img class="header-image" src="{$entry->file_location}/{$entry->fields.header_image->value}"/>
{/if}

In the detail template, on the other hand, both syntaxes are still working.

Enjoy!

[calguy1000]

FYI: The detail view will soon change to be consistent with the summary view.

[zenojl]

IMHO the direct custom-field syntax "$entry->cust_field_name" is more natural and more template-developper-friendly that "$entry->fields.cust_field_name->value"

So if it does not imply a big performance penalty, I would really prefer that the direct custom-field syntax could be used in both summary view and detail view.

Anyway this is not really an issue as long as the correct syntax is documented in some easy-to-find place.