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Hi. I'm running CMS Made Simple 1.2.5. I'm using PHP 5.0.4, and MySQL 4.1.20, and this is all working with Apache/2.0.54 running on Linux 2.6.11. I have created three user-defined templates which invoke the FCKeditorX editor. My FCKeditorX editor is version 1.1.0.

The user-defined templates are made up of several content blocks I have defined in Content > Global Content Blocks, and the structure for the site is outlined below:

Section Header 1 (uses Template 1)

Page 1-a
Page 1-b
Page 1-c

Section Header 2 (uses Template 2)

Page 2-a
Page 2-b
Page 2-c

Section Header 3 (uses Template 3)

Page 3-a
Page 3-b
Page 3-c

I see under Site Admin > Page Defaults there is an option to set Content, but I would like to specify default content that may be adapted for each section/template (as opposed to the whole site).

In other words, pages 1-a, 1-b and 1-c in Section 1 (Template 1) would all have the same default content to be changed as needed. Section 2 (Template 2) pages, 2-a, 2-b and 2-c, would also all have the same default content, but this default content will be different from the default content for Section 1 pages. Similarly for Section 3 (Template 3).

The gist of what I would like to do is insert logic in each template which runs thusly:

{ content defaultvalue = template_content_block }

where template_content_block is a content block I've defined in Content > Global Content Blocks (or I could just as easily cram into a PHP include file), and there will be three of these -- one for each template.

I've searched the forum and online documentation (I'd be really surprised if someone else hasn't already asked about this), but I'll be darned if I can find the procedure and/or syntax outlined for how to do this.

I'm a Web programmer by trade and am familiar with proprietary code usage in general, but I'm new to CMSMS. I sure hope someone can help point me in the right direction.

Thanks,
Mattie

to specify default content for anything but the default content block you can use something like this (in the template).  (not I haven't tested yet, but it should be close).
for the default content block you can try something like:
a) go to the global settings and specify the default content as  'notset'
b) use code like this in your template

I have had an identical query I raised in a different part of the forum (sorry!). The mechanism here is a display trick which will provide default text to show on the web page if a given content block is empty.

I have been looking for something similar at the template level. What I want is boilerplate text to provide e.g. placeholders to insert headings and text, these can be filled in on the page when the template is used to create a new page. Site admin > page defaults provides (I assume) just this for the content block, what I need is a page default for each content block defined in a template.

Does this make sense?

Ed

Thanks for the pointer, CalGuy. Your suggestion is similar to the "Passing page content as a parameter" (http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... fined_Tags). I had trouble with the syntax in this documentation, but hopefully your input will clear things up.

Stay tuned, and I'll let you know how it goes, Ed,
Mattie

This functionality doesn't exist (yet) but will be in 2.0

I have been looking for something similar at the template level. What I want is boilerplate text to provide e.g. placeholders to insert headings and text, these can be filled in on the page when the template is used to create a new page. Site admin > page defaults provides (I assume) just this for the content block, what I need is a page default for each content block defined in a template.

Thank You calguy1000 this works great!