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Amy.Stevens
Posted: 15 November 2007 04:57 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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Hi,

I’ve been searching, but haven’t found an answer in the forum/wiki/user database so I’m asking here. 

Earlier today I was running a site (http://web2.mcla.edu/index.php/admissions) and was able to use the following code

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="admissions" category="6" limit="1"}
<div class="sub_headbanner"><strong>{title}</strong></div>
<div class="content">{page_body}</div>{/exp:weblog:entries}

This would display one entry, no problem.  Then we upgraded to MSM and changed the url from web2.mcla.edu to admissions.mcla.edu - everything looked great but when I changed the template to this:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="admissions" site="admissions" category="6" limit="1"}
<div class="sub_headbanner"><strong>{title}</strong></div>
<div class="content">{page_body}</div>{/exp:weblog:entries}

I can’t get anything to show up.  If I remove the category and limit variable, then I can get a full list of entries, but can’t figure out for the life of me how to get the categories to show up.

Related question which is less pressing, but on the same template, I used this code to build a sidebar menu showing all the contents in one category.  When I click into any of the entries, it only shows the title of the entry I’m on and not the whole category list.  I assume this is me being stupid and missing an obvious code, but thought I’d check here as well.

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="admissions" category="6"}
<ul>
<li><a href="{url_title_path=admissions/value}">{title}</a></li>
</ul>
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Any ideas? Thanks!
Amy

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Sue Crocker
Posted: 16 November 2007 09:10 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Hi, Amy. Let me get a few things set up on my testing MSM install. I’ll be back shortly.

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Posted: 16 November 2007 09:12 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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excellent, than you!

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Posted: 16 November 2007 09:57 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Related question which is less pressing, but on the same template, I used this code to build a sidebar menu showing all the contents in one category.  When I click into any of the entries, it only shows the title of the entry I’m on and not the whole category list.  I assume this is me being stupid and missing an obvious code, but thought I’d check here as well.

You’ll need to add dynamic="off” to your sidebar menu.

As far as your other issue is concerned - what if you create a simple template with just what you need?

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="admissions" site="admissions" category="6"}
<div class="sub_headbanner"><strong>{title}</strong></div>
<div class="content">{page_body}</div>{/exp:weblog:entries}

I took out your limit variable.

With a simplified template on my sites, I didn’t have any problems.

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Posted: 16 November 2007 10:04 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Hi, this is Ian LaPort, Amy’s confused Apache server admin.  In case this is relevant, and I suspect it might be, our apache config works like this.

- “web2.mcla.edu” is an apache virtual host with a document root of… /opt/www/web2/htdocs
- “admissions.mcla.edu” is also an apache virtual host and its document root is.../opt/www/web2/htdocs/admissions

Inside admissions are two files, index.php (copied from /opt/www/web2/htdocs) and path.php which contains the following…

$system_path = "../eenginesys/";

// ------------------------------------------------------
// MANUALLY CONFIGURABLE VARIABLES
// See user guide for more information
// ------------------------------------------------------
$site_name='admissions';
$template_group = "";
$template = "";
$site_url = "http://admissions.mcla.edu";
$site_index = "";
$site_404 = "";
$global_vars = array(); // This array must be associative

When I created the site called admissions within EEngine, I duplicated the weblogs (and entries), template groups and global variables.

I also set “URL to the root directory of your site” to http://admissions.mcla.edu

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Amy.Stevens
Posted: 16 November 2007 10:05 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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The dynamic="off" seems to have done the trick.

Taking the limit off didn’t change the results though.

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Posted: 16 November 2007 10:22 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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But did you simplify the template?

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Posted: 16 November 2007 10:24 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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Yes, and it came up blank.

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Posted: 16 November 2007 10:37 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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Ian, about the only change I’d make to the second path.php is to put values in here:

$template_group = “”;
$template = “”;

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Posted: 16 November 2007 10:38 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]  
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Amy, this template you are working with, where is it stored? In the first or second domain?

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Posted: 16 November 2007 10:44 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]  
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Sue Crocker - 16 November 2007 10:38 AM

Amy, this template you are working with, where is it stored? In the first or second domain?

Sue, Ian copied the installation, so I believe it is stored in both.

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Posted: 16 November 2007 10:53 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]  
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Sue, I think we’ve got it figured out.  I was using the category numbers from the first install, and when Ian copied it over, the category ID numbers changed.

Thanks for helping us investigate this!

Amy

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Posted: 16 November 2007 11:15 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]  
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Glad you were able to figure it out. It can take a while to get used to using the MSM.

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