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cno
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Jul 17, 2006, 12:31 AM

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Link image in the summary to the article page. Can't Post
Is it possible to add a link to ***image1*** in the summary that points to the article page? I tried changing to this in the template:

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 <!-- templatecell : img_caption --><a href="$detail_link$"><img src="$img_url$" height="$img_height$" width="$img_width$" border=1></a>


but it seems like $detail_link$ doesn't work there.


Donna
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Jul 17, 2006, 10:04 AM

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Re: [cno] Link image in the summary to the article page. [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi there :)

Thanks for your post!

The best way to set this up is to use a specific field for the summary image. So, you'd use one of the spare fields as "Summary Image". Then, setup the template like this:

(In your row templatecell)

<a href="$detail_link$"><img src="$art_fieldX$" alt="link to full article"></a>

Then, in the article editor, enter the following into the new field:

***imageX:url***

This tells Article Manager to output the URL of the image directly, so you can use it in as the source of an image.

Let me know if this works for you. :)

Donna

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cno
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Jul 17, 2006, 10:18 AM

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Re: [Donna] Link image in the summary to the article page. [In reply to] Can't Post
Thanks Donna for the quick reply, I will try this and see how it goes.


cno
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Jul 17, 2006, 10:37 AM

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Re: [cno] Link image in the summary to the article page. [In reply to] Can't Post
I got it to work, however this leaves me with two more problems... The caption text will not be displayed below the picture and I MUST have an image to each article, else I'm just displaying a red x where the image is supposed to be.

I think the caption text is pretty easy to solve with a new field. But the "no image" problem is worse, or do you have a smart solution?


ross
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Jul 17, 2006, 10:50 AM

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Re: [cno] Link image in the summary to the article page. [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi.

Glad to hear that got you going!

The caption will definitely work well with a sparefield so give it a shot and let me know how you make out.

With the articles that have no images, I would add in a new attribute to your image tag on the templates. Basically, it would look like this:

<a href="$detail_link$"><img src="$art_fieldX$" alt="link to full article" onerror=”/path/to/image.gif”></a>

What this does is tell the image tag to load a default image if the SRC in the tag leads to a broken image.

What I usually do is upload a small image that is basically just a blank pixel or something similar and use that so instead of a broken image, you end up with nothing.

Article Manager has a great image you can use: /artman/images/spacer.gif.

Does that make sense? Have a go at it and let me know how you make out Smile.
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cno
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Jul 17, 2006, 11:47 AM

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Re: [ross] Link image in the summary to the article page. [In reply to] Can't Post
Thanks for the suggestion, that will work. Just one small problem... I must have the image border set to 0 to not have a border around the pixel image and that makes my design look a little bit funny :)


(This post was edited by cno on Jul 17, 2006, 11:48 AM)


ChetW
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Jul 18, 2006, 1:38 PM

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Re: [cno] Link image in the summary to the article page. [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi,

Thanks for the follow-up,

One thing that you could do is set the image border color to match the background color.

To do this you could create an inline style with the border color properties. For example:

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<a href="$detail_link$"><img src="$art_fieldX$" alt="link to full article" onerror=”/path/to/image.gif”></a>

Could be changed to:

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<a href="$detail_link$"><img src="$art_fieldX$" alt="link to full article" onerror=”/path/to/image.gif” style="border:#your_background_color;"></a>

Inside the "your_background_color" place the hexidecimal color that you need.

Does this help you? Give it a try and let me know how it works for you!
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cno
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Jul 20, 2006, 11:17 AM

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Re: [ChetW] Link image in the summary to the article page. [In reply to] Can't Post
Thanks, I've got it to work pretty much the way I wanted it to now. I skipped the border and made some changes to the layout instead, worked out even better. The onerror code didn't work for me though, but I made some research and came up with this code which worked better:

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 onerror="this.onerror=null;this.src='$_imageurl$set1_maple/spacer.gif';"
Thanks again for your help, now I'm happy with both the layout and the functionality.