News detail page using template for page it's on, I want to use other template..

[amandapanda]

Hi all. I am new here. I noticed the news detail page uses the template for the page the news summaries are displayed on which is my home page but, I want to use the other template that I use for my pages. How can I accomplish this? Thanks in advance. 

[Dr.CSS]

If you go to Extensions » Modules then click on the Module name, ie. News, or the word Help, on the right, you get the parameters it will take, such as this from News...

So you make a page called news and have it not shown in the menu and use the template of your choice...

With pages like this I use the view source mode to put   in for content, since you can't make a blank/no content page...


# (optional) detailpage="pagealias" - Page to display News details in. This can either be a page alias or an id. Used to allow details to be displayed in a different template from the summary.

[amandapanda]

Fantastic!! Thank you! 

[wournos]

If you go to Extensions » Modules then click on the Module name, ie. News, or the word Help, on the right, you get the parameters it will take, such as this from News...

So you make a page called news and have it not shown in the menu and use the template of your choice...

With pages like this I use the view source mode to put   in for content, since you can't make a blank/no content page...


# (optional) detailpage="pagealias" - Page to display News details in. This can either be a page alias or an id. Used to allow details to be displayed in a different template from the summary.

I have run into a similar problem.
My problem is that I would like to have News Summary on one page and News Detail on another page and link them together with a "Full article" link. I tried the tip you gave but I find it lacking in detail. I have created a page called news_in_detail and added the  . What now? On which page should I add detailpage="pagealias" and where?

Thanks.

/W

[stopsatgreen]

On the page where you want the summaries to appear, just use {news detailpage="news_in_detail"}

[wournos]

Thanks. That worked. But how do I get the detailed news to show up on the second page? Is there a specific tag somewhere?

/W

[stopsatgreen]

As long as your 'news_in_detail' page uses a valid template, you should just have to put {content} in the main content area instead of  

[wournos]

HA! It worked. Thank you. =D

/W

[mikehenson]

If you go to Extensions » Modules then click on the Module name, ie. News, or the word Help, on the right, you get the parameters it will take, such as this from News...

So you make a page called news and have it not shown in the menu and use the template of your choice...

With pages like this I use the view source mode to put   in for content, since you can't make a blank/no content page...


# (optional) detailpage="pagealias" - Page to display News details in. This can either be a page alias or an id. Used to allow details to be displayed in a different template from the summary.

Hi Mark
I think I follow this all the way down to the part where you actually link the news item to the page you want it to be displayed on. Could you add a little more here please in the way of instruction?
Many thanks
Mike
PS. Is this on a bug/fix list somewhere. It's quite bizarre that a news item should be displayed under a completely unrelated title because that happens to be where the person was before they clicked on the news link. Mind you, with some careful thought you could come up with some hilarious headlines

[Dr.CSS]

Not sure what this means?...

"It's quite bizarre that a news item should be displayed under a completely unrelated title because that happens to be where the person was before they clicked on the news link"

[mikehenson]

Hi Mark

You're right to not understand what I'm talking about because I seem to have broken the display of news on all three sites I've built using CMSMS and I've done it inadvertantly so I don't know how to fix it.

Normally, in the default installation, if you're sitting on the Home page the top of the content section says "Home" then, when you click on a news item, the whole content section changes and puts "News" at the top of the content section with the news detail below.

What I've done is to create a situation where the top of the content section continues to say "Home" (or whatever page was last displayed) and doesn't change to "News" when you click on a news item.

I thought this thread was a fix to that problem - I hadn't realised that the problem was made by me - and on all three sites I've made.

Kind regards

Mike

[Dr.CSS]

The word "Home" is most times the title of the page, so if you want it to say News you can make a page called News and set it as your detail page, clicking a news article will take you to that page...

[mikehenson]

Oh dear, maybe I'm not explaining this properly.

In the default installation of CMSMS, I doesn't matter what page you're sitting on, when you click on a News Item Link the title of the page in the main content area changes to "News" and the news detail appears below it.

I seem to have broken that and I don't know how/where I made the mistake but when I click on a News Item Link the title of the page does not change to News - it retains the title from whatever page I was on when I clicked on the News Item Link. The News detail appears OK but the title doesn't change to "News".

So, if I'm sitting on "Contact Us" (for example) and I click on a News Item Link, the title of the main content section stays as "Contact Us" when it should change to "News".

What have I broken?

[Dr.CSS]

In the default install there is a page called News and the other News tags have the {news detailpage="news"} call in it so any news items clicked go to "News" and replace any content there with that news articles details...

[mikehenson]

Thanks Mark

I had inadvertantly deleted the "News" page along with all the other pages in the default install.

I've been scouring the templates and CSS to try and see what I'd done wrong and, as quite often happens, the answer was simple!

Sometimes it's difficult to see the wood from the trees!