Basic Custom Template not Loading

[Jyosua]

I'm attempting to upgrade to the latest version of the forum software, so I'm porting over some of our customizations, but for some reason I can't get the theme to load a custom template file.

In forums>front>topics>postContainer, on line 92, I've added an else condition to load a template bit:

{{if !$comment->isAnonymous()}}
	<li data-role='group'>{expression="\IPS\Member\Group::load( $comment->author()->member_group_id )->formattedName" raw="true"}</li>
	{{if \IPS\Member\Group::load( $comment->author()->member_group_id )->g_icon }}
		<li data-role='group-icon'><img src='{file="$comment->author()->group['g_icon']" extension="core_Theme"}' alt='' class='cAuthorGroupIcon'></li>
	{{else}} <!-- this is the else -->
		{template="memberBadge" app="core" group="global" params="$comment->author()"} <!-- this is the template -->
	{{endif}}
{{endif}}

That template, memberBadge, resides under core>global>global. For whatever the reason, I can't get it to load, even if it's just static html in the template or text.

If I put text like "test" under the else condition instead, I see it displayed under the member group name, but if I put nothing but that "test" text in the template, it doesn't display.

This worked just fine in the old version, so I'm not sure what I'm missing.

[Nathan Explosion]

38 minutes ago, Jyosua said:

I'm attempting to upgrade to the latest version of the forum software, so I'm porting over some of our customizations, but for some reason I can't get the theme to load a custom template file.

In forums>front>topics>postContainer, on line 92, I've added an else condition to load a template bit:

{{if !$comment->isAnonymous()}}
	<li data-role='group'>{expression="\IPS\Member\Group::load( $comment->author()->member_group_id )->formattedName" raw="true"}</li>
	{{if \IPS\Member\Group::load( $comment->author()->member_group_id )->g_icon }}
		<li data-role='group-icon'><img src='{file="$comment->author()->group['g_icon']" extension="core_Theme"}' alt='' class='cAuthorGroupIcon'></li>
	{{else}} <!-- this is the else -->
		{template="memberBadge" app="core" group="global" params="$comment->author()"} <!-- this is the template -->
	{{endif}}
{{endif}}

That template, memberBadge, resides under core>global>global. For whatever the reason, I can't get it to load, even if it's just static html in the template or text.

If I put text like "test" under the else condition instead, I see it displayed under the member group name, but if I put nothing but that "test" text in the template, it doesn't display.

This worked just fine in the old version, so I'm not sure what I'm missing.

app = core

location = global

group = global

{template="memberBaddge" app="core" location="global" group="global" params="$comment->author()"}	

If you had it in core -> front -> global then your code would be fine as postContainer is in front too.

 

[Jyosua]

Yep, that was the issue. Thanks for the help!

Is there somewhere in the dev docs where this is documented? I did some googling and skimming of the docs, but I didn't see anything that looked like it'd explain the full behavior of the template arguments.

Edited January 16, 2023 by Jyosua

[teraßyte]

 

[Jyosua]

Thanks, this is exactly what I would have wanted.

I wonder why there isn't a link to this part of the documentation from the getting started? I think it'd be good to direct people there if they want to read in further detail, since the title of that dev docs page doesn't really yell "templates!" to me.