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I just didn’t bother - mixing them, that is.

I just used CSS to modify the display of ”latest” to give me a few different layouts, then used templavoila to map a couple of different content elements, and mixed those instead.

Seems “latest” and “list” when you are trying to limit to a category just won’t mix.

Yeah, it wasn’t a latest/list clash at all, it is definitely something to do with categories - I can’t actually select anything, have to leave the selection as “show all (don’t care)” with the lists.
So, Im not sure if it’s the selectDeselectCategories that is going to help, or another bugfix I noticed
0003844: “Show items with selected categories (AND)” does not work
that needs to be done. (Even though, for me, it is all selections, not only “AND”…)

I have been installing and configuring tt_news again today, and am having problems placing both latest and list on the same page. They are separate content elements, but list won’t appear.

The plugin is starting (as evidenced by the html), but no records are being called, and it isn’t even saying “there are no records”. The header of the second element shows, and then just the first two classes,with no content.

I am sure I have done some silly little thing, because I am fairly sure it showed “there is no file” first time around. Then I added a news item with this category, and everything disappeared.

I did find a reference to a bug in 1.4 indicating this was a problem in the past, so I wonder if I need to fix it up with the selectDeselectCategories as mentioned in the bugfix?

Having worked out that the mapping had fallen off the content template that defined my 2 columns in the main content area (!), now the following error shows…

 WARNING: This container element has localization without inheritance enabled ( = 0). This is most likely a misconfiguration since the localization features of TemplaVoila does not support localized container fields in the native interface! Please inform the system administrator!

The email lists didnt provide the answer, but pointed me in the direction of Kasper’s Frontend Localization Guide.

After much scanning (after all, I haven’t gone into this at all yet) I came across this…

“Notice that container elements usually must have the “[All]” language set so they are rendered for all languages:…”

 So, Im looking in the right place … now if only I understood what it all meant

(Two days later…)

Ah .. the Data Structure needs to be edited to include the following <meta> information…

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”iso-8859-1″ standalone=”yes” ?>
<T3DataStructure>

<meta type=”array”>

<langDisable type=”integer”>1</langDisable>

</meta>

<ROOT type=”array”>

…

BUT!
Best to leave it until you are finished playing with the DS/TO, because (as it is a manual adjustment) for every Typo3 version to date, it will be lost next time you alter the DS/TO in Templavoila!

I know I haven’t written anything for ages .. I must go back and type up my entries (that are currently scrawled in a notebook).

But here is an interesting dilemma - I can’t find documentation for tt_address, and can’t work out how to insert data into the table!

Wonder how long it will take me to work out?  …

…(15 minutes later  … )

ahh! Good to know I’m not the only one who had problems working out how to use tt_address 

According to Vikram:

To insert data in tt_address do the following steps:
1. Login to BE
2. Create a (or go to your existing) SysFolder type page
3. In this page create a tt_address records

(Reference: http://lists.netfielders.de/pipermail/typo3-english/2005-August/009569.html)

Now I just have to get someone interested in writing an extension to deal with business/organisation addresses in a “yellow pages” manner 

The errors I was getting with dr_wiki are one less - I had forgotten to include ’static from extension’ in my typoscript template.

:S not so smart.

Also, I haven’t quite worked out my site’s dynamic navigation. The primary navigation works quite fine, but the secondary navigation isn’t working yet - it’s replicating the primary nav.

And I have to work out how to generate a dynamic navigation of the wiki articles…

I had difficulty adjusting my html templates for use with markers - it took some tweaking to get my horizontal TMENU layout rendering correctly, but in the end I got it by removing the unordered list and list tags.

Then when I changed to TV, the navigation kept rendering in a vertical list, rather than horizontal.

Today it occurred to me to change my html back to the original coding … and guess what? It worked!

Yay for using my brain!

I found a solution for TIMTAW & TV. In the TV mapping, a field needs to be mapped as a typoscript object path. Then in the typoscript template that lib.myObject needs to be called, similar to Sebastian’s

10.EDIT>marker.editpanel

instead, with a TV mapped lib.myObject,

10.EDIT>lib.myObject

Also, the admin panel (see TSRef document) needs to be activated with

page.AdminPanel = 1

You can set a variety of configurations using the information in TSRef.

Now my only problem is that it doesn’t look terribly nice. It looks like I have to go and configure the whole thing for the front end appearance. I’m not sure if it should be set as a normal text field, or what, and the normal wiki markup doesn’t work, which could cause user confusion.

On the other hand, dr_wiki has all of that built in. If only I could get it to work. Currently I am getting mySql errors. I have found other people with the same error, but they haven’t worked out the problem. Rather they did a fresh install, which fixed it.

I might try the author again.

My last post about wikis said I was trying DR Wiki. Well, I did… and couldn’t get it working. I posted twice to the Typo3 User Group list, and even directly to the author and two other users, but got nowhere.

One user did answer, but said he had not managed to get a positive result, and had neded up using a third party product.

I also tried TIMTAW, and managed to get a login page and initial data entry page to show, but after saving the information, it disappeared from the front end. The record was visible in the back end, but no reference was created, and so it wasnt rendered on the wiki page.

I am trying to nut out dr_wiki with the very little documentation that is
provided.

I have set up the plugin as a content element in templavoila, mapped to a
content area