IP Pages "Category Articles" template not applying for all other categories...why?

[Ryan Thomas]

Hey guys, for IP Pages, I have set the "articles template" to "category articles" to make my articles look more like a blog format instead of a table.

However, this only works for the articles.html page view.  When I click on the actual category to view in the articles, it displays as a table. 

Anyway to get ALL of my categories to display like the "category articles" template which looks like a blog, not a table? 

Thanks for the help!

[opentype]

 

Anyway to get ALL of my categories to display like the "category articles" template which looks like a blog, not a table? 

​I’m afraid that is not easily possible. As the setting says, that article mode is meant only for the “Database Index”. 

To simulate that appearance for all categories, you would need to set up a custom listing template that looks like the article template. 

[Ryan Thomas]

I see and I have been looking at it for hours, but just can't find a way to add the article images into a customer listing template.  I am definitely not a php expert by no means but is there no easy way to accomplish this?  I tried to simply copy the "Category Articles" template into one of the "Listing" templates but of course this did not work.

Do you have to know php code to create these templates?  Or is there an easier way?

Thanks again for the help.

[opentype]

I tried to simply copy the "Category Articles" template into one of the "Listing" templates but of course this did not work.​

Yeah, that won’t work. 

But you should be able to modify the listing templates and reuse the variable keys you find in the article template. 

So …

<img src="{$record->record_image}">

in the article template should work in the listing template like so …

<img src="{$row->record_image}">

 

[Ryan Thomas]

@opentype looks like that did the trick!  I will have to do some more modifying, but everything else (like title, author etc) seems to be there.

Thanks again for the help on this!

By the way, I noticed that it is loading the FULL image...does IP Pages not create a thumbnail for these images?  If not, than that's a serious problem in terms of optimization which would be a bummer.  Anyway around that?

[opentype]

By the way, I noticed that it is loading the FULL image...does IP Pages not create a thumbnail for these images?  If not, than that's a serious problem in terms of optimization which would be a bummer.  Anyway around that?

​I nagged IPS about that problem for some time and they added thumbnail and resize settings in one of the earlier betas. I haven’t checked out how to call the different versions in the template, since I don’t use that stock image field. I just let the system downsample all uploads to a max setting. 

[ehku]

Excuse-me for the unrelated question: What is IP. Pages? (Part of IP. Content?)

Thanks.

[TSP]

IP.Pages is just the new name for IP.Content. 

[ehku]

IP.Pages is just the new name for IP.Content. 

​Thanks.

[Ryan Thomas]

​I nagged IPS about that problem for some time and they added thumbnail and resize settings in one of the earlier betas. I haven’t checked out how to call the different versions in the template, since I don’t use that stock image field. I just let the system downsample all uploads to a max setting. 

​I looked through the database and could not find where these different versions are referenced.  I believe that IP Pages is referenced as "CMS" in the database if I'm not mistaken but still couldn't find the different thumbnail sizes.  Thanks again for the info @opentype

Anyone know how to reference them in the template files by any chance?  Hopefully we see some documentation on this as they roll out RC1. 

[Ryan Thomas]

@Matt If you don't mind me pinging you on this since I believe you have a lot of involvement with IP Pages.  I do see the thumbnail setting for IP Pages record images, but do you know how we would call them in our templates?

So far, I have only been able to use this, but it is the full size image:
 

<img src="{$row->record_image}">

Thanks again for the help and can't wait for RC1!