[solved] 'Edit Content' button wont show in my custom template

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Babaloo Reply #1, 17 years, 7 months ago

This is my first MODX install.

MODX 0.9.6.3 is on a LAMP environment with php4 mysql3, I’m using FF3 on Vista.

My template wont show the ’edit content’ button, but if I switch back to the default Minimal template it pops up.

I looked carefully into the default template markup and comparing to my file, my first impression is that all tags are in place. Clearly, I’m missing something big and would really like some help, please...

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dev_cw Reply #2, 17 years, 7 months ago

You need to add the # to the placeholder to get the edit buttons to show:

[*content*] will not show edit link
[*#content*] will show edit link

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Ryan Thrash Reply #3, 17 years, 7 months ago

There may be CSS-related issue too with your custom template that makes the buttons disappear.

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Babaloo Reply #4, 17 years, 7 months ago

Definitely it’s not the missing #, I copied the markup from the Minimal template. I copy the whole thing again, paste my template on top of that and see what happens...

I can see the Edit link when I turn off all styles, but it links to an empty anchor... ’#’

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mrhaw Reply #5, 17 years, 7 months ago

To use the HTML method, simply insert custom <quickedit> tags wherever you want the links to be. The tags must be in the format <quickedit:content />. Replace content with the name or ID of the template variable you want to edit.

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Babaloo Reply #6, 17 years, 7 months ago

I can tell that the Quick edit headers are there, but it wont load the toolbar...

<!-- Start QuickEdit headers -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="/mod/manager/media/script/mootools/mootools.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/mod/assets/modules/quick_edit/javascript/QuickEdit.js"></script>

<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/mod/assets/modules/quick_edit/styles/toolbar.css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
 Window.addEvent('load',function() {
  qe = new QuickEdit(2,23,'/mod/manager/','assets/modules/quick_edit',$('QE_Toolbar'));
 });
</script>
<!-- End QuickEdit headers -->

Those html tags did not work for me. Is that <quickedit:content />, as in a single tag?

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dev_cw Reply #7, 17 years, 7 months ago

Run the site through an html validator. there may be an open tag or something that is messing up the quick edit tags from showing.

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Babaloo Reply #8, 17 years, 7 months ago

Yay! Solved!

Thnx, dev_cw!

You’re a genius!!! grin

It was indeed missing a HTML tag, nothing big, I should add.

Just the <BODY>!!! rolleyes

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Ryan Thrash Reply #9, 17 years, 7 months ago

You might want to look at upgrading from PHP4 and MySQL 3 to something a little more current, too.

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