Site Sculptor - Adding New Page from Template, Linking the new page

I have created a site that let's me add pages from templates within Admin. I have no problem adding content pages using the green plus sign next to the page. However, when I add content to the created page, the original page displays content from the created page. I have looked in the Content database, and both the new page and original exist there. However, when I browse the pages, the new content replaces the original.

Also, how do you link the new created page to the other pages when the problem has been resolved? There seems to be no easy way to link newly created pages. I could obviously circumvent this through coding and FTP, but the CMS is set up for client use, as the client will want and need to add pages. The reference in the help section is vague, and the page name does not show up in the editor link dialog.

Thanks,

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Originally Said By: rsawyer341759

  I have created a site that let's me add pages from templates within Admin. I have no problem adding content pages using the green plus sign next to the page. However, when I add content to the created page, the original page displays content from the created page. I have looked in the Content database, and both the new page and original exist there. However, when I browse the pages, the new content replaces the original.

Also, how do you link the new created page to the other pages when the problem has been resolved? There seems to be no easy way to link newly created pages.  

We're having exactly the same problem and are awaiting a response.

Hi. Please advise, as this is the only obstacle in site designs using site scultptor themes, when you add a new dynamic page it overtakes the orginal content. thnaks

With a site template, once you add template pages, the original template content is overridden by the page. The higher level template item will not be visible, only the lower level pages created from the template.


The pages created will not be add to the navigation, it is not dynamic, you will need to add the pages to the navigation manually.

When a page is created from the template, you can access that pages contents through a querystring.


lets say as an example that I set the directors.php page to be a template. I can get to the individual pages using the page name as a querystring and passing a number for the page:
directors.php?directors=1

or
directors.php?directors=2

Jason,

Thanks for the clarification. While you explained it quite well during our conversation, the admin section of the Site Sculptor has the end-user in mind, since all of us designing sites using the extension are using Dreamweaver. As you also stated, the documentation on creating pages in the help section is incorrect. Thanks for forwarding this issue to the documentation team.

I have found what I think is an elegant solution to this. Your answer below was very helpful in giving an understanding of what the extension is doing, and with some very minor code tweaks, we developers can get what we need in terms of non-menu page creation. The steps are simple:

(1). Find the folder "CSSMenuWriter". There are three subfolders that refer to navigation for the Admin, Home and Content pages. Ignore the Admin navigation folders.

(2). In the Home and Content menu folders, find the menu.php file.

(3). Find the files you made the templates editable (indicated by the green plus button).

(4). Add to the end of the file: ?menuHeader=\", where "menuHeader is the page name of your editable page. Using your example below, the PHP code would look like this:

<a href="<?php echo($assumedRoot); ?>directors.php?directors=\"">directors</a>

Since we are directly referencing the original page, it will never be superseded by newer pages. End-users can also link directly to created pages using the text editor. Other than that, end-users will probably have to keep track if they delete pages in the middle of a stack. The numbering system can be thrown out of whack for subsequently created pages.

Hi
I tried your solution. But either there is something wrong ore I don't understand it.

When creating a new page from a template menu page. It still takes over the original one.

So I will have to create two pages. One to hold the original and one that I can edit and make a link to like "news.php?News=2"

So I can't really see the point in what you are doing. So please enlighten me :)

Regards
Olle

the template is an object, not intended to be viewed by site visitors.


You will need to create as many pages from the template as should be viewd by the site visitor.

and create links to them as:
news.php?News=1
news.php?News=2
news.php?News=3



the page that listed at the top, will be the default page. It will be shown if there is no query string passed in.

So:
news.php?News=1

and
news.php

will return the same content.

Jason,

Your solution is not quite right.

The second page is indexed with a number starting with 1. The original page is not indexed with a number, but with a NULL. The SQL in the Webassist code that pulls up the page is looking for the highest indexed number, using "1" will pull up the second page. A more appropriate statement would be


page.php?page=""


in referring to the original page. However, this would potentially cause problems in the PHP code, so I use the backslash escape character to remedy this.

I have also noted that this scheme is not foolproof. Since pages based off of templates can be deleted, the numbering system may fail if your delete pages in a random order. For instance, if you have five pages, and delete pages two and three, I believe the Webassist code would create a page numbered six, because five exists. However, there would only be four pages showing, and there is no way to know from the administrative panel what number the page should be, since it is designed to replace, not increase the number of pages.

the foolproof way of getting the correct link is to click the view page link in the admin. This will show the correct link for that page.


page.php?page=""

is not valid. use:
page.php


instead.