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    • overriding default templates by chosen styles not working

    Posted by eSeL Austria

    it says in the
    wikidok     (scroll down to: "overriding templates") that i should just save EDITED templates in the folder of the chosen stylesheet
    i.e. templates/styles/MYSTYLE/

    then it would override the default templates in:
    /templates

    at least with my tiki (1.8.5.) it doesn´t.

    as i manually edited and saved via ftp, i also tried via the "edit templates" function in the admin-menu,
    but even there i only get to edit and save the .tpl-files from the /templates-directory

    so i am a little confused.

    - is the promise of overriding" in the wikidok wrong?
    - is there any other setting i did not consider that prevents my stlye-templates from "overriding" (the styles is chose in the general-preferences (tiki-admin.php?page=general) so i think that would suffice to also consider the templates of the chosen style...

    how can i make tiki to consider my edited templates without having to change the default settings (which then apply to ALL styles)?

    thanks for any suggestions!

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    Posted by sylvie greverend


    > how can i make tiki to consider my edited templates without having to change the default settings (which then apply to ALL styles)?
    Create a style. For instance if tikineat is your favorite style,
    copy styles/tikineat.css styles/my_style.css
    mkdir templates/my_style
    For each template you want to change, copy the templates to this directory and change it in this directory
    cp templates/xxx.tpl templates/styles/xxx.tpl

    Then select the style my_style on your site (admin->general) or change pref or switch theme module

    Sometimes, some cache can interfer, better to clean the cache admin->system admin the 3 directories

    sylvie


    Posted by eSeL Austria


    the bitter truth was:

    the user i was using as admin was still set on another .css.

    so i COULD indeed not see the changes that were already affecting the layout for all other (not-logged-in = anonymous) users.

    >;e)

    ps. actually i was surprised that my templates seem to reload their new status immediately. i barely had to clear the cache.



    Posted by chrisd

    > it says in the
    > wikidok     (scroll down to: "overriding templates") that i should just save EDITED templates in the folder of the chosen stylesheet
    > i.e. templates/styles/MYSTYLE/
    >
    > then it would override the default templates in:
    > /templates
    >
    > at least with my tiki (1.8.5.) it doesn´t.

    I am having the exact same problem with 1.9.2. I have created a new theme and the css file works fine; I have created /templates/styles/$theme_name and in there I have placed an edited tiki-view_articles.tpl in that directory. No matter what I do, TikiWiki will not pick up the edited .tpl file - any .tpl file - that I place in that directory.

    The directory and file permissions are exactly the same as the other /templates/styles/ themedirs. I've tried clearing the cache. I've tried swapping themes back and forth, logging out and logging back in. I've set the theme in the Admin menu and through the switch_theme module.

    If I upload the exact same edited tiki-view_articles.tpl file to any other (pre-existing) themedir, TikiWiki picks it up just fine. I've tried deleting and recreating the custom template/styles dir, to no avail.

    Does anyone know what's going on here?



    Posted by chrisd
    This patch has fixed the bug, as well as adding some nice new functionality. Thank you.