News Module - Summary Template Editor

[avon_g]

I cant seem to find any reference anywhere about the Summary Template Editor in the News Module.
I can see and edit the "Sample" Template and add new ones but i cant seem to find anywhere that
these templates are then used....

TIA

[RonnyK]

If you go to "Content -> News -> Summary template", you'll see that below the textarea, all listed templates are available. On of them has the mark "default". If you don't give a parameter for a specific template, this is the one being pulled.

Ronny

[avon_g]

can you advise as to where the parameter for a specific template goes....this is the problem I am having
TIA

[RonnyK]

From the help,

(optional) summarytemplate="sometemplate.tpl" - Use a separate template for displaying the article summary. It have to live in modules/News/templates.
(optional) detailtemplate="sometemplate.tpl" - Use a separate template for displaying the article detail. It have to live in modules/News/templates.

I think that you don't need the ".tpl" at the end anymore, as they are no files anymore, but stored in the DB. So call the news with something like:

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{news summarytemplate="yournondefaulttemplate" }

Ronny