SOLVED : Can't click through to News detail

[Eskymo]

Im using CMSMS v1.2 and installed News 2.5.1.

I've added a few fake news storied to the site I am working on and when viewing the news page I see the news story summaries like this:

11/01/07
Yet another groundbreaking story!
Category: General
Posted by: Evie

This is the summary of the groundbreaking story I'm about to post. This is the summary of the groundbreaking story I'm about to post.
[More]

I presume that by clicking on [More] or the News title the full news story would load, but it seems that the page just refresshes itself and nothing loads. see here:

http://www.techsinthecity.co.uk/devsite/index.php?page=news

In the news module I have added a Summary, the Content and marked the story as Published.

What am I doing wrong?

[RonnyK]

How do you call module, please post your {news}-call.

Ronny

[Eskymo]

I've just got {news} where I want it to appear...is that incorrect?

[Eskymo]

I just found this article...
http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/User_Handbook/Admin_Panel/Content/News/Templates/News_Detail_on_New_Page

and realise that my mistake is that I have not created a page for the news pages to display on - duh! So off to sort that out now and hopefully that will fix the problem.

If I want the latest news story to appear on my homepage, how would I call that? at the moment I've added:

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{news number="1"}

to my template and it shows a news story but also has pagination so that you can go through all the news stories. To fix this would I take the pagination element out or is there a different way to just pull in the latest news story?

[RonnyK]

You can either change your summary template, or create a new one and call that specifically.

In Content -> News -> Summary Template

{if $pagecount > 1}
 
{if $pagenumber > 1}
{$firstpage} {$prevpage} 
{/if}
{$pagetext} {$pagenumber} {$oftext} {$pagecount}
{if $pagenumber
{/if}

is the above the logic that makes the pagination work, remove the logic and pagination will be gone.

Ronny

[Eskymo]

BRILLIANT!
I think I'll create a new template just for the homepage. thanks for the tip!

[kendo451]

The real problem is that the news detail will be printed in the {content} tag.  If you do not have your {news} inside {content} the detail will not display.  This is a bug, if you ask me.

Ken Griffith

[RonnyK]

Ken,

there is a parameter "detailpage" that will push the details to be opened in the content-area, of a specific called page, and thus getting that title as well.

Ronny

[kendo451]

I am aware of the detailpage parameter.  However, if you try to make a page with a {news} tag and with no content tag, the news detail will not display.  It prints the detail in the {content} tag of whatever template page it is called from.