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Hi all - before I get to the actual question I just want to say that CMSMS is way cool!
I am moving my old site (http://budgetastronomer.squarespace.com/) to a new site (http://www.budgetastronomer.ca) - still in progress. I have formatted the news to read only headlines on the main page, with the details going to a blank page not listed on the menu. I also have a "What's New" page where I want to list all news items in detail. My question is, how do i format that? I just put a {news} tag on the what's new page, but how do I tell it to use th edetail template rather than the summary template?

Thanks,
Ed
Climbing the CMSMS learning curve one template at a time...

Go to Extensions » Modules click News or Help to get the parameters and other info...

# (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 may be thick here, but please pardon my noobishness.
If all I want to do is display all news items in detail on a page, I have to create a new details template, even though there is a perfectly good details template built in? Is there not just something like {news detailtemplate} that will do the job?
I tried setting the page as a News content type, but that too just gave me the summary, without an option for making the page display as details.

Thanks,
Ed

The news defaults to the summary so to get it to show detail,,,

go to news click on the detail template copy/paste into a file, using notepad so you can save it as all file types with .tpl extension, upload this to the modules/news/templates folder then use the tag...

{news summarytemplate='TheNameofYourTemplate.tpl'}

So it IS a workaround - thank you! that worked beautifully!

Ed