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canvey
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Sep 25, 2002, 4:43 AM
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AM: Placeholders
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Hi,
Currently we have placeholders for Content & Summary.
Could you consider adding 'Title', and perhaps 'category' to that list.
We have many guest writers, who need a helping hand - so we have added additional guidance to these two tags - but at the moment it means altering two templates.
Thanks.
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dlo_itools
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Sep 25, 2002, 10:08 AM
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There are placeholders already for the article's title and category:
$art_name$ is the article's title
$cat_name$ is the article's category
Will those placeholders do what you need?
/Dave Lo
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canvey
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Sep 25, 2002, 10:22 AM
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Sorry - what I meant was in the article editor screen, there are placeholders that are set up under the admin options for Summary & Content - in otherwords, once you change the wording under admin, the words change in the article manager screen for both writer and editor - yet to change the wording for the article title, you have to edit two templates.
We find that we have to alter the wording of all three for our guest writers, who often leave the headline box blank - maybe this is because by default it is seperate from the summary & content boxes - perhaps these could be grouped together by default in the template.
Just a thought - thanks.
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MalaK_3araby
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Sep 25, 2002, 10:57 AM
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hi canvey ...
do you wanna flag a spare_field as Required?
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Sure you can spell it, but do you get it?
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canvey
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Sep 25, 2002, 11:27 AM
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Re: [MalaK_3araby] AM: Placeholders
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Hi,
Sorry, I am not quite with you :( Please explain
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MalaK_3araby
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Sep 25, 2002, 11:48 AM
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my mistake .. i apologize.
i meant to ask you if you want to flag a field as being * Required to fill and article can not be saved unless all required fields are filled.
just like those in forms .. or when you post in this forum where you have to fill certain field before u can post.
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canvey
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Sep 26, 2002, 9:34 AM
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Re: [MalaK_3araby] AM: Placeholders
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No probs - I should have realised - that would certainly help - but in the meantime I have move the headline box to above the summary box, and put some html into the templates. It just seemed daft that one could edit the summary & content word tags from the damin screen, but the headline one has to be done from the templates.
Ironically I did all the above - and guess what happened on the first guest submission - yes it was BLANK!!
So yes making it compusory, along weith the summary would help greatly.
Perhaps there should be a box to tick to make certain fields compulsory?
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