Content templates creation

Hello,

Just curious if you have a new tutorial in progress for the Content Templates Creation. I'm planning to present FlexiContent at the Joomla New England Users Group and I'd like to cover how to customize the display of content.

Thanks,

Dawn

You can read a tutorial here:
extensions.netassopro.com/9-tutorials

Plus this site has a couple of good extensions for FLEXIcontent

We want to write more documentation for FLEXIcontent after the final version of v1.5.6 for J1.5 and v2.0 for J1.6/J1.7+

Regards

Awesome, thanks. Yes this site will have fleximport and I have a subscription with them,

All the best,

Dawn

Hello,

I've reviewed the FlexImport tutorials on template creation and I'm wondering if I need to create that entire file structure to achieve a backend entry form like yours as seen here: screencast.com/t/4zh8eQbIR I would like to simplify the input forms for the user and the default template has too many fields.

Thanks,

Dawn

To create more item EDIT templates in the backend.
--1-- In file
administrator\components\com_flexicontent\views\item\view.html.php
replace line: with: --2--Then copy file
administrator\components\com_flexicontent\views\item\tmpl\default.php
to:
administrator\components\com_flexicontent\views\item\tmpl\default_biography.php

--3-- Edit it to make some form fields to be of type hidden with default values
For example:
The parameter that defines layout would be:
<select id="paramsilayout" class="inputbox" onchange="activatePanel(this.value);" name="params[ilayout]">...</select>
will become
<input type="hidden" name="paramsilayout" value='biography' />

NOTE 1, you will also need PHP to retrieve some values to put in the hidden fields. If i had something ready i would give you, maybe i will do something like this in the future.

NOTE 2, when you upgrade your default_biography.php will not be overwritten (although better backup) but you will have to restore the above -if- php code

NOTE 3, YOUR best change to make it easy is to find the boxes that contain stuff you don't need and and them add this:
style='display:none;'
This way you will hide them and hopefully the default values will do the job.

Regards