Help with Snippet

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ScottyDelicious Reply #1, 20 years, 10 months ago

I can not get user comments to accept my &displaytpl=`chunkname` as a template for comments layoyt. I went in to the snippet and changed the default in there, and it still displayse the same way. I even deleted this whole section of the snippet:

if(empty($displaytpl)) $displayTpl = '
[+UID:[+uid+]+]<div[+postclass+]>
   <div[+numberclass+]>
     [+postnumber+]
   </div>
	<div[+titleclass+]>
		<strong>[+subject+]</strong><span>[+user+] [+createdon+]</span>
	</div>
	<div class="content">
		[+comment+]
	</div>

</div>
';

and it still display’s the same "default" layout for comments. cacheable is set to "off" on all the articles with comments, and the snippet is called with [!SnippetName!], so I don’t know what is happening?

any insights?

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sottwell Reply #2, 20 years, 10 months ago

browser cache? are you sure you’re working on the correct files? (I once spent hours fighting a css issue, only to finally realize I was connected to the wrong website...I won’t say what happened to the poor site I was actually connected to!) From looking at the source for the snippet, I don’t see how that can happen "normally".

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wendy Reply #3, 20 years, 10 months ago

You might wanna use [!snippet_name!] instead of [[snippet_name]], and make sure that you refresh your site/clear your site cache.

Hope that helps...

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MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #4, 20 years, 10 months ago

IMPORTANT: The snippet writes each comment sequentially in a document using your template. Once a comment has been created changing its template will do nothing except affect new comments. You must remove the old comments or create a new comment to see the effects of your template.

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Ryan Thrash Reply #5, 20 years, 10 months ago

LOL... good point Mark. I’ll bet that’s what’s going on!

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MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #6, 20 years, 10 months ago

I’m sure of that because I had this same problem a while back and I ended up going line by line through the snippet code to figure things out.

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ScottyDelicious Reply #7, 20 years, 10 months ago

Aha! super, thanks Susan, Mark, Ryan, et all!

Do you think editing the document that comments are written to will work?
Why am I asking this question?
I am going to try it anyway.

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ScottyDelicious Reply #8, 20 years, 10 months ago

Just in case anyone else asks....
I edited the content of the page that holds the blog comments for one of my blogs, and I was able to change the layout.

But I see what you are saying Mark... It writes the entire template to the document. Perhaps in a later revision, it will be possible to have just text and tags written to the doc, and let the snippet parse template info each time it is called?

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