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I’m new to ExpressionEngine, first time using it.  Well versed in Drupal.  I’ve been digging around the current site I’m working on for the past couple of hours and the template structure along with tags all seems to make sense.

The only thing I can’t seem to find on my own is where the template is for the final url of the entry.  The title, author, complete body and then comments.

I’ve seen the index pages of the channels and the tags pulling the latest entries and truncating them etc but simply can’t find where the individual entries are at.

I’ve been searching with no luck.  Probably due to my lack of understanding with the ExpressionEngine terms.

Thanks for any help/links.

Often the same template that is used for the listing is used for the individual entries as well. Can you confirm there is not any if/else logic in the template that might be checking for the existence of url segments/pagination? Also, you may want to check to see if EE is setup to save templates to files in the template configuration. If so check out the template directory (usually something like system/expressionengine/templates) and see if there are any templates there that you don’t see in the admin. You can also sync your physical templates to the database to get them to show up in the admin if that is the case.

http://expressionengine.com/legacy_docs/#template_docs

There’s a few “if” conditionals in the body but nothing, as far as I can tell, that’s outputting the final post.  They’re all related to the parent page and most of them have a limit on the database pull of like 4 or 8 or something so I know it’s not displaying just 1 post. 

It makes complete sense, /news is showing up exactly how this index template is put together.  I just can’t find the final/end template to the entries.

There’s also nothing in the template directory except for a single index file that looks to be error related.

Hi thereader,

Glad to see you’re already fairly comfortable with ExpressionEngine! We hope you’ve enjoyed it so far.

Let’s see if we can get this sorted out for you.

So, as far as the actual url title, that is set on the publish page. (Attachment 1)

Now, in your template pulling in the latest entries and truncating them, which I’m assuming is a list of news articles, there should be a link you click on to go to the single view page. In that template listing the news entries there should be some rendition of this code

{title_permalink="template_group/template"}

Based off the template group and template referenced there in that code, shows which template is used for the single view.

Do you see {title_permalink} anywhere in that template? If so, which template_group/template does it point to?

Thanks! (And thanks for the assist here Michael)