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Daveylatt
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May 22, 2006, 4:55 AM

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Hi

Just had NM installed and customised template slightly, logged in and added a 'Welcome' article.

I assumed this would appear under http://wwwthenabc.co.uk/nm/publish however, it shows the customised page but not the article ??

Does this take a while to update? Any ideas?

Davey


Donna
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May 22, 2006, 3:39 PM

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Hi Davey,

Articles will definitely appear immediately upon being published, so there's going to be something else going on. When you modified the template, did you remove any of the custom News Manager code? For example, News Manager will publish without any error messages if it's missing the bit of code that inserts the actual content, but it won't publish anything. Take a look in your index.html template and make sure you can see this line:

<!-- template insert : $list$ -->

If it's not there, add it in in the spot where you want the articles to appear, then save and republish your files.

If that doesn't work, you may want to submit a support request and we can pop in and see if there's anything else going on keeping the files from publishing. :) You can fill this out here:

https://www.interactivetools.com/support/email_support.cgi

I hope this helps! Let me know if you're still having trouble. :)

Donna

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Daveylatt
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May 23, 2006, 3:46 AM

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Re: [Donna] First attempt on News Manager [In reply to] Can't Post
Thanks Donna

The new article I created is on the server as news_2.html however the summary page which should list the article (s) on thenabc.co.uk/nm/publish is blank. I inserted the code in the template/index.html file, to no avail, even tried on nm/publish/index.html file but this won't ftp as it says permissions not allowed :-(

I used the free intallation from your guys and the test article appeared via nm/publish link, this however was the main article and not a summary page with a linked header as I expected?

Looks like a support request may need to go in:-(


Donna
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May 23, 2006, 8:54 AM

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Re: [Daveylatt] First attempt on News Manager [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Davey,

The other thing to doublecheck is that you have something like this in your template as well:
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<!-- templatecell : row --> 
<p><table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=460><tr><td> 
<a href="$url$"><font face="arial" style="font-size: 15px;"><b>$name$</b></font></a> - <font face="arial" style="font-size: 12px;">$date$</font><Br> 
</td></tr></table> 
 
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=460><tr><td> 
<font face="arial" style="font-size: 13px;">$summary$</font><Br> 
</td></tr></table> 
<!-- /templatecell : row -->

This is the default code, so you can definitely change it around, but the placeholders (words surrounded by $) are necessary to output the content of the database. Without those, nothing will be displayed.

Since it was working when we installed it, it shouldn't be too difficult to get fixed up -- it's just a little tricky without seeing your templates, so I'm sort of working in the dark. :) Try the support request route, and we can get that fixed up for you ASAP.

Donna

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