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Hi, I’m setting up my first EE site and have a few more questions (more threads coming) :roll:

I have about 10 templates right now: embed group (header footer nav etc), home page, rss, and the article page. When a writer/editor creates a new entry, I want it to default to the article template. How do I do that?

Also, on the new/edit entry page, under the Pages tab, how can I make the other templates (.header .footer .nav) stop from appearing in the list? I thought the .name would do it but no.

I did search for answers on forum but nothing…

Thanks for help!

Jim

Hi DreamProducer,

When you say “default to the article template”, what do you mean specifically? If you want to make sure your entries from a particular channel show on a template, you’ll do that using the Channel Entries Tag. The Getting Started guide is a good place to start for those concepts, too.

If you just mean you want new Page entries in a particular channel to set a particular template as the default, you’ll do that by going to Add-ons > Modules > Pages and setting default templates in the Pages module configuration. There isn’t a way to keep hidden templates from showing in the list, however. Hidden templates are shown in the CP, they just aren’t accessible from the front-end when called directly.

Thanks Kevin. That’s helpful. The second option is what I meant.

Actually not quite what I meant. Here’s an example:

I have 3 channels: about, support, mission
I have 3 templates: site/about, site/support, site/mission

When I create a new entry in “about” channel, I want the site/about template used by default. How do I make that the default template for all “about” channel entries?

DreamProducer, it’s EE tags that output the Channel data in whichever templates you allocate them to.

In your site/about template you’d add a tag to pull in entries from your About Channel, eg

{exp:channel:entries channel="about"}
{title}
{custom_field}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Then in site/support template you’d call your Support Channel entries into the tag link this:

{exp:channel:entries channel="support"}
{title}
{custom_field}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Get the idea?

Hi DreamProducer,

Does Rob’s advice above help at all? Thanks for the help there Rob.

Alternatively is it perhaps you are creating a list of links something like this :

{exp:channel:entries
 dynamic="no"}

<a href="http://" title="{title}">{title}</a>


{/exp:channel:entries}

and what you want is to be able to click on them and go to the correct template?

If so then you would need to set up the Admin > Channel Administration > Channels > Edit Preferences (Each of your three channels shown in your post above) > Comment Page URL

You could then do this sort of thing :

{exp:channel:entries
 dynamic="no"}

<a href="http://{comment_entry_id_auto_path}" title="{title}">{title}</a>


{/exp:channel:entries}

Does that help at all?

Thanks,

Mark

Bluedreamer & Mark, I get it. Thanks for your responses. I apologize for not responding sooner and being a bit more clear on my question. I should have mentioned the pages tab-

On the site I’m building, we have x number of pages in the About channel so each entry is set up as a page. When content writers want a new page and make a new entry in the About channel, they have to go to Pages tab and enter a URI and select a template. By default, the embeds/.footer template is listed first and they have to change it to the “site/about” template. Isn’t there a way to make the site/about template show up as the default template for the About channel; the site/support template show up as the default template for the Support channel, etc.?

Also, it would be nice to be able to hide templates that they will never need to use from showing up in the selection box of the Pages tab.

Hi, DreamProducer.

When you set up the Pages module, you can specify the default template per Channel. You’ll need to set this up for each channel.

Does that help?

Ahh! That’s it! Looks like Kevin essentially gave the same answer but I somehow confused myself and asked essentially the same question again. 😊

I guess a feature request would be the ability to hide (or make visible) a template from designated member groups.

Thanks Sue & Kevin.

Yes, if you wanted to restrict based on Member group. 😊 Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions.