Hello,

I seem to have done something to my blog which makes the editing of current articles and creating new articles no longer possible. The actual problem is in the publish page where I can see title and url title, but no longer what I think was called summary. It is very hard for me to remember exactly what caused this. The artiles that were created before this issue work fine, even though I cat edit their content.

Is there any kind of information I an provide in order for some greatly appreciated assistance?

Thanks.

Do you have deleted a few custom fields? Which do you have now? Also, what code are you using to show your articles? Finally, which version and build are you on?

Thank you for such a quick reply. Yes I believe I may have deleted some custom fields. The blog section of the site currently has no custom fields.

The code is the following:

Well, the only custom fields I see in your code is {body}. Could you have deleted that? After making a backup, simply try to recreate any missing fields again via the control panel.

Yes possibly. I just tried to create the body custom field but I receive the following message:

The field name you chose is already taken

I had a look at the other custom fields for different sections and they appear to both have a body field so I am not sure if the problem comes from that.

one has field name body and field label body, the other field name item_body and field label body.

Is it perhaps possible that the custom field is called something else than body? Thanks

Of course, but how could we know? You can edit them at CP > Admin > Weblog Administration > Custom Weblog Fields.

There was nothing in the custom weblog fields for the blog area so it is hard to know if that is the case. When I added field names such as body2, still no text area shows up when I go to publish.

Do you have a field group assigned to this weblog?
CP > Admin > Weblog Administration > Weblog Management > Edit Groups

Thanks, I had forgotten to do that part. Well I have a text area again in the publish page which is great but when I go to edit previously made articles, the old content is not in the area of course because it has a new field name.

I am afraid there is not all that much we can do about that. A backup, if you have one? If you don’t have too many old articles, simply copy & paste’ing over the content might be the way to go.

Unfortunate to hear that. Well I edited my blog page to no longer show {body} but {body2} and then assigned field name and label name to body2, but that didnt seem to work as my blog test renders no body content. This sure isnt easy

Walk me through this slowly. 

- Go to ‘Admin- Weblog Admin- Custom Weblog Fields’.  On that page- under field groups, what groups do you have listed?

- Go to ‘Admin- Weblog Admin- Weblog Management’ click ‘Edit Groups’- do you have a field group assigned to each weblog- and what is it?

On Admin- Weblog Admin- Custom Weblog Fields

I have 3 fields, dacheboard(1), news(1) and portfolio(1). It is the dacheboard which is having the problems.

In Admin- Weblog Admin- Weblog Management and Edit Groups I have dacheboard field group assigned to dacheboard, news to news and portfolio to portfolio.

Thanks

OK- that helps.  Now- how much data did you have in the weblog already?  And is it important to recover it?  Or are you just testing at the moment and the key thing is just to get things working so you can play around with it?

Great to hear. Theres only been 2 articles with about 20 comments, so I dont mind starting over because I have them backed up. The only real importance is getting it working again really, Im happy with any methods possible.

OK- if we’re starting over a bit, things are much easier. 

OK- so now dacheboard weblog is assigned the dacheboard custom field group.  Swing back to ‘Admin- Weblog Admin- Custom Weblog Fields’- edit dacheboard field group- copy the Field Name - which is the shortname for the custom field(s) you want to show the data for.

Now- you need to edit your templates- anywhere you want to show the contents of that field?  You need to put that shortname a la {body2}- or whatever the name of it is.

The reason your content isn’t showing up is because you’ve still got that old shortname in the templates- probably showing {body} in your weblog tag.  But- now you’re putting the info in body2- so you need to change the tag to match the correct field shortname.

Does that help?  If it’s still fuzzy- if you can link me to an example page, I can walk you through it a bit more.

It’s a lot to get the hang of all at once- but once you catch on, it’s easy.

Hi there,

Im sure it gets easier in time
I set to modify the changes said above, it seems quite logical that why it was showing the old body info. I changed it all in custom field name, label name and in the template to bodyx. It is still showing the old data and when I published a test article, the body area is blank.
What kind of example page can I send?

Thanks so much

dache, when you use the exp:weblog:entries tag, you don’t use the {body} field, you’d use {bodyx}. Can you doublecheck that is what you did?