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Harvey
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May 17, 2008, 9:15 AM
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User About page Not working Properly
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Hello. I followed the tutorial http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/gforum.cgi?post=50386#50386
But did not like some of the options therein. I tried to customized it for my needs, but there are problems.
1-I created a new placeholder in the account database called site
Text field
Stored as string
Validation rule - Web page
2-In each user accounts, I entered the current user's about page's URL.
3-In the Article database, I created a new placeholder called link, where I would pull the info from the account place holder called "site"
Text field
Stored as string
Filed Options Custom field HTML - where I entered this
<tr>
<td style="padding-right:5px">$_fieldLabel$</td>
<td><input type="text" name="$_fieldName:htmlEncoded$"
value="[templateIf : $_fieldValue:htmlEncoded$ eq ""]$createdByUserNum:getFieldValueByNum(accounts,site,Not found)$[/templateIf]$_fieldValue:htmlEncoded$" size="40" /></td>
</tr>
Validation Rule Web address
4-Then I added this to the article pages
<span class="article_text"><a href="$article.link$">Author's Profile</a></span><br>
5-I published everything.
The problem, is that the about page link, only works with new articles created, and not older ones, even though I republished everything. On older articles, it will pull the URL of the current article page instead.
By default this information is already pre-populated in the the link field I created in the article database - the correct URL of the account holder is pulled in the article create and modify pages.
My question is why doesn't it publish on the Web site then, in the case of older articles?
(This post was edited by Harvey on May 17, 2008, 9:15 AM)
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Jake
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May 18, 2008, 10:12 PM
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Re: [Harvey] User About page Not working Properly
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Hi Harvey,
Thanks for posting!
When you add a new article field with a default value, this data is not automatically passed to articles in your system that were created before you made this change. All article data is saved at the time of its creation, and changing database field settings does not automatically go back and repopulate these older articles with this data.
There may be another way to get this working without having to go back and modify your old articles, but it would only work if each one of the authors on your site had their own user account that they created the articles with.
Let us know if that's the case and we'll look into that solution for you. 
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