Detail template for News module seemingly not working

[wmdvanzyl]

Hi All.

With reference to the news module. I can't seem to use a detail template. It always uses the default template.

This is how i call the module:

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{news detailtemplate="Detail Template" summarytemplate="Summary Template" category="Portfolio" detailpage="about"}

The summary template works perfectly, but when i try to follow the link to the detail page, it uses the default detail template. The URL on the detail page looks like this:

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https://www.mydomain.com/news/8/42/News-Story/d,Detail%20Template

I'm not sure if this is correct, but i'm assuming the d, is supposed to refer to the detail template.

Site details:

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[Rolf]

Name it DetailTemplate or Detail-Template or something

[wmdvanzyl]

Thanks for the reply Rolf. Do you think the spaces is the problem?

EDIT: I changed my news templates to not contain spaces, but same result.

Also, if i misspell the parameter, the page does give me a warning. So it definitely picks up the parameter, but then reverts to default for some reason. It doesn't matter which detail template i choose, same result.

** EDIT: Ok this is intersting. Setting the template i want to use as the default, makes the system use that default, but i got this error:

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Catchable fatal error: Object of class news_article could not be converted to string in /home/modhcbsp/public_html/lib/smarty/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatebase.php(151) : eval()'d code on line 33

SO the issue is that when setting a default template manually, it doesn't show this error, but instead silently fails and gracefully falls back on default - which is pretty cool. But makes debugging difficult.

*** EDIT: Nope, i was wrong. Fixed the template and it shows when set as default, but then doesn't work again when trying to specify it. :/

[rotezecke]

{news detailtemplate="Detail Template" summarytemplate="Summary Template" category="Portfolio" detailpage="about"}

i am under the impression that you can only use either detailtemplate OR summarytemplate. calling both doesnt make any sense and poor cmsms gets confused? also, from memory, category is only for summary not detailed view?

[velden]

Just quickly tested and this works for me:

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{news detailtemplate="Custom Detail News" summarytemplate="News Summary Sample" category="General" detailpage="cms_tags"}

Pretty urls enabled.

[wmdvanzyl]

i am under the impression that you can only use either detailtemplate OR summarytemplate. calling both doesnt make any sense and poor cmsms gets confused? also, from memory, category is only for summary not detailed view?

Hey hey... who's your "poor cmsms" - CMSMS will kick your butt.

NO i think it makes perfect sense. Use this summary template, that detail template, showing only these categories and display the full story on the following page. Should work as is.

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Just quickly tested and this works for me:

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{news detailtemplate="Custom Detail News" summarytemplate="News Summary Sample" category="General" detailpage="cms_tags"}

Pretty urls enabled.

Thanks Velden. I'm glad to know it works at least. I am also using pretty URLs. I assume we are both on 2.1.4?

What does your URL look like on details page? I am wondering if it might be .htaccess messing up the URL

[wmdvanzyl]

I think my question has now changed to this:

How do i debug something like this? Clearly the code works on other systems, but not here. So where does one start to figure out why your specified detail parameter is not working. I would love to hear how the more experienced developers go about solving problems like this.

[calguy1000]

How do i debug something like this? Clearly the code works on other systems, but not here. So where does one start to figure out why your specified detail parameter is not working. I would love to hear how the more experienced developers go about solving problems like this.

I would start with a fresh, virgin installation and carefully, step by step document exactly what you do to reproduce this problem in a text file. You will either find out where you messed up or where there is a deficiency in the code or the documentation.

i.e: Create a new summary template... and just put a heading in it or something. Same with a detail template. adjust your News call in a new page, test that it is working (or not... one step at a time). Then finally configure pretty url's.

Once you know the problem and it's solution you can implement it on your problem site.