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Melz6682
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Jun 1, 2006, 5:23 PM

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I created my own page design. see demo at:
http://www.it2o.com/nadir4
and i want to find a way to make an article display in the featured section of the page(the soccer team section) or any other section that i want.
thanks for the help

MikeB
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Jun 3, 2006, 5:26 PM

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Hi,

Thanks for the post! Smile

I'll outline how you can set up the "Front Page" of your site to include some content from Article Manager.

1. The first thing you'll want to do is get onto your server and save a copy of /artman/templates/search/search_results.html. You can call this front_page.html.

2. In this file you can strip out all of the external HTML (headers, footers, menus, etc) and just leave in the templatecells and HTML that will actually output the search results. You can save this file back onto your server here: /artman/templates/search/front_page.html

3. You'll want to open up the index.html file you're using and rename this index.shtml. This is because most servers are only set up to recognize SSI on .shtml pages. Underneath your "Business News" heading you'll just want to add a line that looks like this:



You'll just want to have this include use your actual path to the search.cgi script.

Once you've set up this SSI you can play around with this to add a couple more to different parts of this page.

I hope this helps and if you have any other questions just let me know! Smile

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Melz6682
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Nov 29, 2006, 4:53 PM

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thanks. i have another question:
where and how can i change the headline properties (align, font, size).
go to:
http://www.sudansoccer.net/index_test.shtml.
On the left column i wanted to change the headlines to be aligned to the right and change thier size (this is an arabic site).

Donna
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Nov 30, 2006, 11:08 AM

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Hi there!

Just to keep it all in one place, I've responded to your other post here: http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/gforum.cgi?post=51525#51525

Donna

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Melz6682
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Dec 7, 2006, 7:13 PM

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can you go to
sudansoccer.net/index_test.shtml

go all the way to the bottom. the categor list is not showing up. I added this code to my page:
" 

"

I copied this code from the original index.shtml
I am trying to create a new index, but the categories are not displaying correctly. Help pls

Melz6682
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Dec 8, 2006, 10:38 AM

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thanks for your help. you are a great help.
another issue that i have is.
I am trying to create a new index page with a new design, so i wanted to know what are the required (cells, tags) that i might need to include in my new design.ex:template cells.
I uploaded a new index file, but it errors out, which means it's looking for a specific template cell or something else. sorry i can't remember the error.
can you also tell me how to do it istead of asking me to go to the forums and search for it.
Thanks very much

ross
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Dec 10, 2006, 9:41 AM

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Hi there.

All the template cells that you see on a template are going to be required so the best thing to do would be to check out your /index/default.html template and use that as a reference.

Any templatecell you see in there would need to be in your new template. If you wanted, I am attaching a copy of the default index template to this post for you. That might be easier to read through if you had made a lot of customizations to your copy.

I'll rename mine to default_templatecells.html just to be safe from accidental over writing Smile

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Keep us up to date with how you are making out Smile

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Melz6682
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Dec 11, 2006, 7:50 AM

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Re: [ross] how to specify an article location [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thanks alot. that helped.
Another question: Let's say that i want to create new article field (pull down) in artman, then i created a template page under template/search.
(1) How do i associate that new template with the new pull down article fields?
(2) Also how to associate that article field with html pages that relates to it under public_html/artman?

Thanks

Donna
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Dec 12, 2006, 4:48 PM

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Hi there!

Thanks for your post. :)

I'm a little confused as to what you're trying to do here -- can you let me know what you'd like the end result to be?

Donna

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Melz6682
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Dec 12, 2006, 5:01 PM

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ok:
i have a main index page that has tables and cells..etc.
inside of each cell i want to display a different article.
go to http://sudansoccer.net/index_test.shtml.
the way it works that there are 6 different html pages located in public_html/artman directory that render their content into those cells (were created by you guys for a fee). the layout for these pages are coming from another template page in artman/templates/search directory. so what i wanted to do is add more pages beside those 6 pages to be able to display articles in more cells. so i created another html page in the public_html/artman directory and names it area8.html. the problem is that whenever i place the  code into a specific cell, i don't get any content unlike the other 6 pages that work fine. is there anything that i am missing, or doing wrong beside - placing the page in the directory and adding the line of code into the cell?

I also modified the article field to have area8 selection.

(This post was edited by Melz6682 on Dec 12, 2006, 5:07 PM)

ross
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Dec 13, 2006, 11:59 AM

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Hi there.

Thanks for that link!

The first thing I noticed is that if you go to check out the page you are trying to include here, you end up with a page not found:

http://sudansoccer.net/artman/area8.shtml

That's going to be the main problem here. The thing I am a little confused about now is that when an SSI has path to a 404 page like that, you should actually see an error message on your index_test.html page. I am not seeing any error so I am wondering where abouts the SSI is on that page. Could you post a copy of index_test.html for me?

Also, could you post a URL (like the one above) to the page you are trying to include? That way, I can see what the path in your SSI should look like.

How does that sound? I look forward to hearing from you so we can get this all sorted out Smile

Melz6682
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Dec 13, 2006, 12:47 PM

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Re: [ross] how to specify an article location [In reply to]	Can't Post

sorry for my mistake.
The page link is :
http://sudansoccer.net/artman/area7.shtml
and you can see where that page is suppose to be displayed at :http://sudansoccer.net/index_test.shtml

maybe a better way to understand my problem is do the following:

login to my artman at sudansoccer.net/artman
user: ***removed by ross***
pass: ***removed by ross***
create a new article and just choose anything for the category and the status should be visible. choose 7 from the "Main Page Area" drop down menu.
- post the article
- go to http://sudansoccer.net/index_test.shtml
- you should see your new article in the top middle column of the page inside the grey cell.

the content of that page are not displayed

I included the index_test.shtml for you.

(This post was edited by ross on Dec 14, 2006, 11:33 AM)

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ChetW
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Dec 16, 2006, 10:24 AM

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Re: [Melz6682] how to specify an article location [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi Melz,

Thanks for the follow-up!

I believe that I just spoke with you this morning regarding this, I have the e-mail that you have sent and I am going to take a closer look at this for you! Once I have a better idea of how everything is working I will post an updated forum post detailing what is happening. :)

Does this help Melz? In the meantime if you have any other questions please feel free to ask!
Cheers,
Chet Woodside - Product Specialist
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Melz6682
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Dec 18, 2006, 9:59 AM

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I want to thank Ross for his help. he went out of his way to help me out with this issue. Thanks alot Ross and chet.

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