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Re: Core News Module Links not working
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:07 am
by Dr.CSS
uh I believe he meant a link to the site so we can see the link that it makes...
Re: Core News Module Links not working
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:25 pm
by mrcoke
I am so sorry..
http://test4.wsc.k12.ar.us/coopcms
I haven't blown it away yet cause I have been working on some other stuff. I haven't moved over to cmsms yet but planned to next month
Re: Core News Module Links not working
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 4:37 pm
by alby
mrcoke wrote:
I am so sorry..
http://test4.wsc.k12.ar.us/coopcms
I haven't blown it away yet cause I have been working on some other stuff. I haven't moved over to cmsms yet but planned to next month
You use a detailpage that not exist (id=39)
if you change
39:
... mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=1&cntnt01origid=58&cntnt01returnid=
39
with 15 (Home page) or p.e. 58 (Media Center) you see the news ....
Alby
Re: Core News Module Links not working
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:40 pm
by mrcoke
You are absolutely correct.. i changed it in my browser and it worked
thank you
now..
where do I fix that? and how did i mess that up. I looked in templates, style sheets and didn't see anything like that..
thank you
Re: Core News Module Links not working
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:39 am
by alby
mrcoke wrote:
You are absolutely correct.. i changed it in my browser and it worked
thank you
now..
where do I fix that? and how did i mess that up. I looked in templates, style sheets and didn't see anything like that..
What is your news tag?
Drop detailpage param or correct it to existant page ...
Alby
Re: Core News Module Links not working
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:06 pm
by mrcoke
Alby,
I guess i don't know where to look to fix this problem. I looked in stylesheets, templates modules etc. I compared a second cmsms box I set up to test what i possibly did wrong and compared templates, stylesheets etc and even copy/pasted code that looked right with code from the working test box.. I am just really lost on how to do what you are asking. Is that something in the mysql database that I should be fixing?
sorry for my lack of knowledge. I am coming over from the fontpage on IIS group and I guess it is obvious
Re: Core News Module Links not working
Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:54 pm
by alby
mrcoke wrote:
Alby,
I guess i don't know where to look to fix this problem. I looked in stylesheets, templates modules etc. I compared a second ...
You must search for news tag (I suppose in template that it's used in your pages):
{news .... detailpage='alias_relative_to_id_39'}
Alby
Re: Core News Module Links not working
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 2:35 pm
by mrcoke
this is going to sound stupid.. but after searching and searching the templates to no avail, i was looking at the news module.. and it wasn't set to active... how in the heck did I miss that .. well i guess i was looking for something really bad to be wrong.. how did it get set nonactive.. i have no idea.
anyway the problem is solved and I do appreciate all the ideas and assistance.. I learned a lot and found that there are some good people on the made simple forums. Maybe some day I will get experienced enough to return the favor to some other noob.
again thanks Alby and Mark
Re: [solved] Core News Module Links not working
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:17 pm
by L84DNR
Alby,
I am having the same issue but my News module is set to active
When I click on a news item
Code: Select all
index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=4&cntnt01origid=64&cntnt01returnid=39
I get 404 page not found
If i change the returnid=51 i'm good
The sample templates of CMS are still in the Pages but not active and not default
Should I delete these?
Should I reinstall the News Module?
As mrcoke I looked in every template css and even in the database and cannot find the reference to returnid.
Any suggestions?
As always,
Thank you!
EDIT... [Solved again i guess]
I found a work around I think (but i don't have a warm fuzzy feeling about it) When I installed CMS i elected to have the sample pages put in. After a few weeks of building the site I went in and deactivated them. When I go the "Default Extentions / Modules / News" page and activate it all is good. So that page is returnid=39 as stated in the code above. SO, I removed it from the menu and left it active and all seems well.
I curious... okay scared to delete the sample data now

Re: [solved] Core News Module Links not working
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:02 pm
by Dr.CSS
Most likely if you have to reactivate a page to see the News when clicking the more... on the left or ? it's because in the default install the news is a tag in the template like so {news number='3' detailpage='news'} with news being the detail page that was/is in the default install and it has an ID number so it looks for that page but since inactive can't find it, hence the problem...
Just change the detailpage= parameter to a page you want/have or take that call out to get it to show the detail in the page it's on...
Guess you didn't look at all the templates/code to find this...