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Hello!

I would like to combine the overview of all blog entries with the comments page, for example:

http://www.domain.com/blog and http://www.domain.com/blog/this-is-my-entry

EE does so far a good job but i want to display on the overview page only the field “excerpt” and on the comments page the fields “excerpt” and “text”. But i don’t know how…

Is there any conditional to check if I’m in an comments view?

Tobias

{if segment_2 !=""} would tell you if you were on a single-entry view.

Yes, but this wouldn’t work anymore if i want to display blog entries by category, for example:

http://www.domain.com/blog/category/computer

For now, i created a second template because i didn’t find a way to combine both into one template… but there must be some way since EE shows the comments only on the comment page.

Tobias

See http://eeinsider.com/articles/simpler-expressionengine-urls-with-a-simple-template/

Hi Tobias,

Just wanted to see if the link from Mike helped here at all?

Thanks,

Mark

Well yes, but i didn’t look like a simple solution. I was hoping that EE can solve this problem out of the box.

Hi Milaan,

If you are trying to use one template for both an overview and the comments view then you are going to need to use a conditional much like Mike showed above in order to know where you are.

ExpressionEngine out of the box doesn’t know what type of template you’re on so you would be needing to do some custom coding here.

I’m going to move this one on down to Community Help as it’s not really a technical support issue as such.

As mentioned though a conditional here is probably the best way to go. That or using a separate template for comments so that you know exactly where you are within the system.

Hope that helps a bit.

Thanks,

Mark

Ok, i see. But actually, i wonder how EE knows that i just want to view a single entry as soon as the URL is http://www.domain.com/blog/this-is-my-entry. Also, if the url is http://www.domain.com/blog/, EE ignores {exp:comment:entries} or {exp:comment:form} tags.

I mean if EE knows about that, shouldn’t it be possible for a user to make use of this information without plugins?