[ic] 4.8.1 Leaving 'template:' header blank in pages

[Zack Johnson]

Thanks for straightening me out.  The reconfigure did it.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Heins" <mheins@redhat.com>
To: <interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: [ic] 4.8.1 Leaving 'template:' header blank in pages


> Quoting Zack Johnson (zack@office.standardprinting.net):
> > These are generated using 4.8.1's 'template edit' feature.  After
submitting
> > the note to the list, I completely removed interchange (rpm -e, rm
> > /var/lib/interchange -Rf, rm /usr/lib/interchange -Rf).  I then
re-installed
> > from downloaded 4.8.1 rpms (rpm -ivh).  Using the latest install, I
created
> > a new cat based on foundation.  Using the template editor, we created a
new
> > template based on leftright called 'test'.  Test would not work.
>
> One thing that may not be obvious, now that I go through it -- you have
> to reconfig after you create a new template.
>
> > Furthermore, pages based on 'test' would not display all of the normal
page
> > options as you would expect.
>
> They don't when you "create new page", but if you save and then go back
> and edit the page again they should show up. I will see what I can do
> about showing them the first go-round.
>
> >
> > Upon inspecting the template file, we found the the 'ui_template' var
would
> > read 'leftright' instead of 'yes'.  Whenever we viewed the 'test' with
the
> > template editor, the contents we blank even though 'cat test' revealed a
> > copy of 'leftright'.
> >
>
> The value of ui_template doesn't really matter as long as it is not
> blank.
>
> > We have since copied the 'foundation' folder to 'new_style' and switched
the
> > 'default' symlink from 'foundation' to 'new_style'.  This way we can
edit
> > 'leftright' directly and avoid these problems.
> >
>
> I am still unable to duplicate your problem of the template name not
> showing up in the generated page. I did just what you said:
>
> 1. Created a new "test" template based on leftright.
> 2. Reconfigged.
> 3. Created a new page "testit" using "test" template.
> 4. Saved page.
> 5. Edited "testit" again and noticed it showed that it
> used the "test" template and showed the component options
> for the test template.
> 6. Saved again.
>
> All worked as I would have expected.
>
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