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We run a statebased news website, and all of our articles pertain to any of our 100 counties here in the state.

We would like to have each article have a stand alone graphic showing the location of that county.

If we preloaded all the graphics to the server, is there a function that would serve as a drop down while populating the article? So instead of copy/pasting the code for each county, the graphic could be chosen from a drop-down box.

Thanks in advance.

Take a look at something like MX Universal Editor (there are other offerings too but I think you’ll like this one as it can do what you want and a whole lot more in the process too 😉 ).

You will be able to set it up so that people can click a button and then it will show them all the images in a certain folder and then they can click on the image they need and it will then be ‘attached’ to that entry.

Hope that helps a bit.

Best wishes,

Mark

Thanks for the assist, Mark.

cpf700, does Mark’s advice help?

I have downloaded and unzipped the files, and uploaded to my server.

Instructions say “◦Enable MX UniEditor in the Fieldtypes Manager”

Where is that? Is this considered a module, plugin or extension?

(On the last meltdown, I lost acces to my Extensions)

Hiya,

Sorry should have mentioned that MX Universal Editor requires the free FieldFrame extension in order to work.

Best wishes,

Mark

Thanks, Mark. Does that make sense?

OK, I grabbed and uploaded FieldFrame to the extensions folder as directed.

But, here’s the rub: when we experienced a melt-down last summer, we lost the ability to get into the Extensions Manager. (I’m on 1.6.9 right now). That’s the only functionality we seem to be missing; can get into Modules, Plug-ins, etc.

So that issue has to be fixed first. Wondering if an upgrade to 1.7.0 might help address what’s missing?

When you say you lost the ability what do you mean exactly? Does the page come up at all or is it blank? Do you get any errors or anything?

Best wishes,

Mark

Admin/Utilities/Extensions Manager results in a blank screen (no error msgs)

The resultant url is

http://www.firenews.net/*****system*****/index.php?S=0&C=admin&M=utilities&P=extensions_manager

Try editing your system/config.php and change this line :

$conf['allow_extensions'] = "y";

to this instead :

$conf['allow_extensions'] = "n";

Hopefully that should then allow your extensions manager page to show up and then you can see what extensions you have installed and see if you think any of those might be causing the problem.

Do be aware though that turning off extensions may affect your site if any of the extensions control anything on the front end of the site so it might be worthwhile turning the site off for a while whilst you are doing this just to be safe.

Best wishes,

Mark

Just checked, it is already set to “n”

cfp700,

How are counties added to your entry already? Are they categories?

Presuming that all your county graphics are named accordingly and match your category names, you could easily do something like this. You wouldn’t have to go near another custom field

{exp:weblog:entries limit="1" url_title="{segment_3}"}

{title}

{categories}/images/counties/{category_url_title}.jpg{/categories}

{body}

{/exp:weblog:entries}

we lost the ability to get into the Extensions Manager. (I’m on 1.6.9 right now). That’s the only functionality we seem to be missing; can get into Modules, Plug-ins, etc

Before you do what Mark suggests turn on Error Reporting and visit that blank page again and hopefully you will see an error which will tell you straight away which extension is the culprit