NewsPublisher Description field

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Eko Reply #1, 11 years, 9 months ago

I need to change the Description field from text to textarea but I don't see a tpl for it. Where should I be looking?

This question has been answered by sottwell. See the first response.

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sottwell Reply #2, 11 years, 9 months ago

On examining the code, it looks like there's no way to do that. The only text fields that are handled differently are the introtext and content fields. The rest just get text input fields.

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Eko Reply #3, 11 years, 9 months ago

Well ...

BobRay? Can you add a tpl for this or somehow make it possible to customize?

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sottwell Reply #4, 11 years, 9 months ago

See line 844 of core/components/newspublisher/model/newspublisher/newspublisher.class.php. That's where the fields displays are set up. There are special cases for "content" and "introtext" fields. The rest of the text fields get displayed using the npTextTpl chunk.

You would need to modify that function to add a switch block for the "description" field.

Around line 912, add this block of code - of course you would need to also modify the CSS to style it like the other textarea fields:

            case 'description':
                $rows =  ! empty($this->props['descriptionrows'])
                    ? $this->props['descriptionrows']
                    : '10';
                $cols =  ! empty($this->props['descriptioncols'])
                    ? $this->props['descriptioncols']
                    : '60';
                $inner .= $this->_displayTextarea($field,
                    $this->props['rtdescription'],
                    'np-description', $rows, $cols);
                break;

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BobRay Reply #5, 11 years, 9 months ago

The description field is varchar(255), so be careful what you put in it -- anything longer than 255 characters will be truncated.

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Eko Reply #6, 11 years, 9 months ago

I saw that, which is why I was hoping there was a specific Description tpl that I could duplicate and customize.

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BobRay Reply #7, 11 years, 9 months ago

Susan's suggestion should work, but it won't change the limit of 255 characters, which is set in the MODX database. Using a different Tpl chunk won't change it either.

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Eko Reply #8, 11 years, 9 months ago

Gotcha. Thank you both.

If I do try Susan's suggestion won't it be overwritten if/when NP gets updated?

Also, are the label names editable? I would like to remove the colon (:). [ed. note: todd.b last edited this post 11 years, 9 months ago.]

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sottwell Reply #9, 11 years, 9 months ago

Yes, of course any changes to the code would be lost in an update. That's why changing core code of anything is never a good idea. That code was primarily an exercise, a bit of idle fiddling just to see if it would work.

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BobRay Reply #10, 11 years, 9 months ago

I think the colons are in the Tpl chunks, so you can duplicate them (the Tpl chunks), specify your duplicate's names in the properties, and edit out the colons. That way they won't be overwritten on upgrade.

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