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    • Re: Changed to style that doesn't work. (resolved)

    Posted by Steel_Rat

    What I meant was, I installed the theme from the mods section of my tiki site, there were no "docs" visible from there, so I assumed anything there would work with an out-of-the-box installation. I then went the Admin Home, and in the General section switched the style to Planetfall (also went through all of the other styles to check them out.)

    From a totally new user perspective, when you say "make a menu", that's a pretty broad statement. Just any old menu? Does it have to contain anything specific? I did create a new menu, not really knowing what I was doing, and it ended up with an id of 101 or something, so obviously that wasn't going to work.

    Not trying to be argumentative, but I think it's a lot to expect from someone that's just downloading and running Tikiwiki. The install package should probably check for the existence of what it needs before allowing an install, but maybe that's just me. It's probably more a lack of understanding of how Tikiwiki works. It's got a lot of potential, but seems like it's going to take a lot of tinkering under the hood (meaning beyond just normal configuraton options) to make various things work.

    > On this pageQuestion there's info on that, and also in the readme files included with the theme. The tag for the menu is in the /templates/styles/planetfall/tiki.tpl file. By default, the theme expects a menu with an ID of 43. If you make a menu (on Tiki's Admin Menus page) and its ID is 43, the theme will work without a hitch. If you make a menu with a number other than 43, you have to edit Planetfall's tiki.tpl file to change the number to match.
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    > 1.9.5 hasn't been released yet. It's available as a CVS snapshot only (from http://de.tikiwiki.orgQuestion if you want to live on the edge).
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    > Sorry, but what do you mean by "General section"?
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    > There are install docs included with the Planetfall download and on the Planetfall pages at themes.tw.o. But I agree the process should never completely hang up a site. Hopefully, this has been fixed for future versions.
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    > — Gary (wondering if requiring pre-install editing of tiki.tpl is better than pre-setting the menu id and assuming the menu will be there...)

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