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dean_i
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Aug 1, 2006, 7:06 PM

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Hi,

How do I insert specific category & specific article in index page? I just re-design a site http://www.halaljournal.com

Let say in 'Company in Focus'. What should I do if I want to insert an article from 'Company in Focus' category? So far I just copy & paste from the article. It's not practical for me to do that way

ross
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Aug 2, 2006, 11:02 AM

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Re: [dean_i] Specific category & article in index page [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi there.

Thanks for posting and welcome to the board!

To be honest though, I am not sure exactly what you are trying to setup here. Did you want to have just a single article appear on the index of each category? Or were you looking to be able to choose a specific article to appear on each index page.

If you could get me some more details, I’d be more than happy to go over the different options you have Smile

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LiquidQuest
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Aug 2, 2006, 11:48 AM

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Re: [dean_i] Specific category & article in index page [In reply to]	Can't Post

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insert specific category & specific article in index page?

i think you want to change the default layout format in the index page from an "article list" to a specific category that you have, showing only the content of the latest article body inserted into that same category.

is that right? if so, do the following:

1) Turn off Global Index publishing
- go to your admin control panel, choose Setup Options, then click on the Server tab.
- go down to where Global Index, and deselect the checkbox on its right.
- click save

2) Specify which category you want to show as your index
- go to Category Editor, go down to the category you want to show as your site mainpage, and click on modify.
- go to where it says "Category Filename"
- select "Use filename:" and type in "index" (without the quotes) in the text field.
- click save

3) Create the template to carry out the publishing rules for this category.:
- copy and paste the following code into the template section (NOTE: this template should be located under the /templates/index folder) where you want your article content to show:

Code

<!-- template insert : $article_list$ --> 
<!-- templatecell : row --> 
$art_name$ 
 
<script language="javascript" src="$url_publish$pagebreak.js"></script> 
<script language="javascript"><!-- 
	var showPageNavTop = 1; 
	var showPageNavBot = 1; 
	var showPageNavAll = 0; 
	var PageMarker = '<!--page--\>'; 
	var PageContent= '$art_content_je$'; 
	PrintArticle(); 
	// --> 
</script> 
<!-- /templatecell : row --> 
 
            <!-- templatecell : row_summary --> 
            <!-- /templatecell : row_summary --> 
 
            <!-- templatecell : row_link --> 
            <!-- /templatecell : row_link --> 
 
            <!-- templatecell : row_ufile --> 
            <!-- /templatecell : row_ufile --> 
 
            <!-- templatecell : not_found --> 
            <!-- /templatecell : not_found --> 
 
   <!-- templatecell : img_caption --> 
     <table border=0 cellspacing=2 cellpadding=0 width=$img_width$ align="left"> 
      <tr><td><img src="$img_url$" height="$img_height$" width="$img_width$" border=1 /></td></tr> 
      <tr><td><span class="image_caption">$img_caption$</span></td></tr> 
     </table> 
   <!-- /templatecell : img_caption --> 
 
   <!-- templatecell : img_nocaption --> 
     <table border=0 cellspacing=2 cellpadding=0 width=$img_width$ align="left"> 
      <tr><td><img src="$img_url$" height="$img_height$" width="$img_width$" border=1 /></td></tr> 
     </table> 
   <!-- /templatecell : img_nocaption --> 
 
            <!-- template insert : $prev$ --> 
            <!-- templatecell : prev --> 
            <!-- /templatecell : prev --> 
            <!-- templatecell : no_prev --> 
            <!-- /templatecell : no_prev --> 
            <!-- template insert : $next$ --> 
            <!-- templatecell : next --> 
            <!-- /templatecell : next --> 
            <!-- templatecell : no_next --> 
            <!-- /templatecell : no_next --> 
            <!-- template insert : $more$ --> 
            <!-- templatecell : more --> 
            <!-- /templatecell : more --> 
            <!-- templatecell : no_more --> 
            <!-- /templatecell : no_more -->

- Save this file as "frontpage.html" (or any other name you want)
- upload to your /cgi-bin/artman/templates/index" folder

4) choose the correct template to publish the category index page
- on that same page as step #2, find the "Templates" section
- choose the correct template which has the coding in the next steps by clicking the "Category Index Page" drop down menu, and selecting "frontpage.html".
- click save

5) copy the attached JavaScript file "pagebreak.js" into your publish directory. without it you will get a blank area where your content should be. (file is attached to the bottom of this post).

i hope i was of help. let me know if you dont understand any of the above steps.
Marssin

(This post was edited by LiquidQuest on Aug 2, 2006, 11:58 AM)

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