Template Override ... What am I doing wrong?!?!?
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- Roger Barnes
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Template Override ... What am I doing wrong?!?!?
I installed Audacity. I created an override copy. I make changes on the override copy. Save the changes. The changes don't appear on the template. I've tried assigning the changes to specific menu items even though i want some of the changes globally. Nothing... It looks like their saved. But they just don't appear on the site. Now if I make changes to the master, it will appear w/o problem. No matter what I do the override template is not used (I've even assigned it to be default).
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Roger Barnes wrote:
Template Override ... What am I doing wrong?!?!?
I installed Audacity. I created an override copy. I make changes on the override copy. Save the changes. The changes don't appear on the template. I've tried assigning the changes to specific menu items even though i want some of the changes globally. Nothing... It looks like their saved. But they just don't appear on the site. Now if I make changes to the master, it will appear w/o problem. No matter what I do the override template is not used (I've even assigned it to be default).
Maybe this document can help you --> My ... doesn't show, appear on the Home page
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Roger Barnes wrote:
I'm doing all of this. It just doesn't make sense.
No problem...I've re-written by guide slightly to make one part CLEARER that you've omitted.
- So you created the template override - GOOD
- You've set the FEATURES/STYLES differently - GOOD
- you SAVED and no changes appear - BAD
The reason why is you haven't assigned this template override to a Menu page so that the Default-MASTER template will be overidden on that page.
Just remember that it goes hand-in-hand, you create a template override and for it to do anything it has to be assigned to a Menu page.
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Roger Barnes wrote:
It is my understanding that if I check an item on the OVERRIDE TEMPLATE (ex. background color - white). And I assign a menu item of HOME to the change. Whenever I choose the menu item home back the background is white. I get that... Now if I unselect the background change on the OVERRIDE TEMPLATE and unselect the menu assignment . The master template's background color should take over. Is this correct?
Because I can go back into the OVERRIDE TEMPLATE, with EVERYTHING unchecked, and click the menu assignment "home" and it will REAPPLY the background color white. EVEN THOUGH, NOTHING...is checked. The problem now is if you make a change and don't like it you're stuck. Even if you change the background color to red. It will reapply the first choice when the menu assignment "Home" is reapplied.
There is a bug somewhere. Setting are't being written or over written properly.
Feel free to go into the site and change things around to see what I'm talking about.
Worked fine for me:
1) created a template override called Audacity-Home
2) set the background to RED and assigned this override to the Home page and SAVED
3) now the Home page has a RED background and the other pages the Default gray colour.
4) went back to the template override and checked OFF the assignment to the Home page
5) CLEARED the CACHES - you probably forgot this.
6) Home page now gray like the rest of the pages.
So working exactly as expected.
Here's a tip for you, NEVER have caching or compression turned ON while developing.
The reasons we ask you to disable compression schemes are:
a) you can always test to see if these processes work early on, after an install but turn them OFF while actually developing. Otherwise you'll find yourself making changes in the back-end but not seeing them in the front-end.
After development and during debugging before going live you can turn them back on again.
b) it makes it much harder for us to help you when caching and compression is ON. We can't see the contents of your cache and we have no clue what CSS file css-62772285f72c78f6d865166b5edd82f6.php refers to ???
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