Answered Featured items panel appears different on home to the other pages

Hello

Thank you both for your time and efforts.

Sorry for delay in my reply.

Not had chance to look at the site today but will do so over the weekend.

Thanks again for your help, I appreciate it.

Hello

Thanks again for your help and time.

Reading your most recent posts it seemed to conclude that uninstalling and removing the FastField extra might be a good next step as it has known issues with MODX 2.6.5 and could be a factor in this problem.

I will also add some real text as suggested if it is the best solution but left it as it is while I try to find the cause of the issue.

I have uninstalled the FastField as shown in the attached screenshot but I am a little unsure of where to look next.

Any further help would be much appreciated.

Thanks and sorry for delay in reply.

Ok so pls check and see if that error is still coming in.

I do think under the circumstances putting a link and some text in the default space for those three panels is a decent fix. It would appear not to need changing too often. The tool that is in this case not working properly only would get the latest dish, event or news item anyway.

Now the link should go to an appropriate page of text with that dish, the space is already there under about-us, that's the place to put the information about the dish, and any new dish contents should go in the same place, I mean identical items. News link is probably just the news feed you've already got.

Events looks like you can just copy and paste the latest item in both places. The footer item will be briefer than the main item and have the link to the events page.

Generally expect to need to keep the text count lower, so that nothing breaks in those boxes. You should probably use about the same number of letters in all of them.

Also, oddly, about-us/news also does output the right content, like the front page. So we are back to, why don't some pages output correctly?

let's check that error and go from there.

Hello

Thanks again for your help.

I have added the text and links to the chunks so they match the front and news page as suggested, as you say I don't think they are updated often anyway.

Still not sure where in the back end of the site the featured items are for the front page but not sure we ever will.

Also I am not sure where to set the image displayed with each of he featured items? This is not that important.

Again as you say I think this is the best fix but I have attached the new error in the document.

Thanks again for all your time and help with this issue. It is appreciated.

Ok those errors are clearly related to the fastfield, I can sort of tell because of the # at the beginning which is a bit unique. It might not hurt to leave them, otherwise you can find all them likely in those chunks that make up the templates that you showed us. (like [[$home-full-screen]])

Yes, you've got your three panels are working ... on all pages now, great! Sooner or later you will need to 'fix' the front page, and I do think tracking down this text won't be too hard when needed. Obviously you have learned quite a bit about where stuff is stored, and we can help.

For the pictures, usually they are on the back end, that's the third tab "Files" in your Modx manager.

You seem to have an 'images' folder, you can upload all the images you want to that folder.

Anyway those are also in the code you changed, in the three panels' chunks, under the text, here:

<img src="assets/images/img_3.jpg" alt="our next event" />

Just upload the pics you want and change the name of the picture in the code on those three panels, you will likely want to change the first or last one as they are the same now. You could even make them match the front page [ed. note: nuan88 last edited this post 7 years, 10 months ago.]

BTW if you want to track down those errors, again I sort of doubt they are hurting anything, but you could paste chunks here and I can show you where to cut. Its not too tough, the harder part is tracking them all down. The references all have that hash mark at the beginning [[#code]].

I suppose they don't hurt, Modx just says, ok its not there and moves on.

In the images folder you can download whatever is there and figure out what the names are of the pictures you have on the front page. If you don't like those pics by the way, a little trick is to upload a replacement pic after deleting or downloading and saving the old one, and then if you just make the name of the new picture the same as the old one, the code will grab the new one instead and voila the pic is changed. keep in mind you can't have two pics in the same folder with same name, that's why you have to move or delete the old one.

That way you don't need to change the code at all.

Ok great! The learning curve always takes some time.

In a pinch with the front page, you could actually *break the tool that is apparently working. just change perhaps the parent id, so then the tool would find no data and would *also use the default text.

Its going backwards but would make all pages the same and everything can be changed at once.

In the chunk has a good name it can stick out so people will remember where to change the info, then it won't get lost.

Hello

Thanks for the reply, yes it has been a bit of a steep learning curve but getting there now I think with this issue. Plenty left to learn...

I will look at the "breaking" the tool that is working by changing the parent id this week and see how I get on.

Thanks again for all your help with the site.

No worries keep in touch