Shawn
Administrator   Posts: 4606 Registered: 10/7/2002 Status: Online
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 posted on 9/11/2005 at 10:22 AM |
For those running PHP-Nuke, PostNuke, etc... In the past when you went to
your CMS Blocks Admin you could choose the AutoBlock area when editing or
creating new blocks. Unfortunately this required AutoTheme to replace a
core PHP-Nuke, PostNuke admin file.
With AutoTheme 1.75 and Lite .85 you no longer see these areas. You now
have Block Control in the AutoTheme admin. This is where you can control
the position and status of all of your blocks. The added benefit is that
you are able to do this not for the entire site or theme, but also for each
individual Custom Page in your theme.
So go to Admin > AutoTheme > Themes > YOURTHEME (Configure) >
Page Defaults > Block Control and check it out. Also look for Block
Control under your Custom Pages.
Thanks!
-Shawn
[Edited on 7/14/2007 by Shawn]
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lobos
Moderator   Posts: 42 Registered: 6/23/2003 Status: Offline
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posted on 9/15/2005 at 04:35 PM |
Damn good feature,
I did notice that the blocks are still showing in admin in the orginal
position they were created as in the cms block admin - ie I created a html
block in the left postion then went and changed it to a custom position in
admin, then edited it in the cms block admin and it came back to left (only
in the admin area though (this is for pn760).
-Lobos
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Shawn
Administrator Posts: 4606 Registered: 10/7/2002 Status: Online
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posted on 9/17/2005 at 12:21 PM |
Yes, so as not to have to ship hacked PostNuke/PHP-Nuke files with
Autotheme, there is a disconnect. I'll look into how to solve this.
-Shawn
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JimHadfield
Newbie  Posts: 5 Registered: 10/3/2003 Status: Offline
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posted on 8/8/2006 at 06:58 AM |
Shawn,
Did you ever get this resolved with PN .75 and AT lIte .87?
I am working on a site. I created the blocks in AT, but they do not show
up in PN blocks.
If memory serves correctly (old guy forgets a lot...), there was a hacked
file that you had for PN that would resolve this issue.
jim
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Shawn
Administrator Posts: 4606 Registered: 10/7/2002 Status: Online
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posted on 8/9/2006 at 02:43 PM |
There is nothing to resolve. You change block positions in AutoTheme >
Block Control now.
-Shawn
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JimHadfield
Newbie Posts: 5 Registered: 10/3/2003 Status: Offline
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posted on 8/9/2006 at 09:34 PM |
I must be dealing with another problem then.. autoblocks is not working
with this setup that my client has.
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pru
Newbie Posts: 9 Registered: 3/7/2005 Status: Offline
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posted on 6/5/2007 at 06:45 AM |
I created a really detailed tutorial-style guide to how to make new custom
blocks in AT, starting with the original Block in PN. It really is an
idiot-guide (for people like me!) and I put it in the PN Wiki.
If people follow this it should cover all possible cases of missing
something in the way AT interfaces with PN. If it doesn't, give me feedback
and I'll modify to make it clearer.
Regards
Pru
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Shawn
Administrator Posts: 4606 Registered: 10/7/2002 Status: Online
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posted on 6/5/2007 at 07:54 PM |
quote:
I created a really
detailed tutorial-style guide to how to make new custom blocks in AT,
starting with the original Block in PN. It really is an idiot-guide (for
people like me!) and I put it in the PN Wiki.
If people follow this it should cover all possible cases of missing
something in the way AT interfaces with PN. If it doesn't, give me feedback
and I'll modify to make it clearer.
Regards
Pru
Great thanks! Send me a copy if you want and I'll try and find a place for
it here.
-Shawn
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pru
Newbie Posts: 9 Registered: 3/7/2005 Status: Offline
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posted on 6/12/2007 at 05:44 AM |
Right, here it is, on purpose with the least possible formatting (txt), so
it can be put on a site without too much hassle.
If you prefer me to send it as an attached doc, pls give me an email
address to which I can do it that way.
==================
Getting AutoTheme to work with your PostNuke site: a tutorial on How to
create a brand-new AutoTheme block and implement it
Note: This has been tested on PN 0.762 and 0.764, and with AutoTheme Lite
(0.87)
1.
Go to the PN Admin page. In System, Blocks, create a new block, as follows:
(This example uses Core/Generic menu because I find it's the most useful
block.)
Fill in the fields of the Add block form as follows:
Title: aPostNukeBlock
Block: Core/Generic menu
Position: Left
Collapsible: Yes
Default state for block: Expanded
Language: English
Click Update.
2.
When the Display and Content panels open below, fill in one line, as
follows:
Title: aMenuItem
URL: #1
(this is just a dummy link to use for the time being).
Description: Leave this blank for now.
Click Update.
3.
Still in the PN Admin page, go to 3rd Party, AutoTheme. Choose the name of
the theme you want to use from Themes, then Configure.
3a.
Click the Block Areas menu. In the Add Block Area box at the bottom of the
page, give it the name anAutoThemeBlock then click the Add button.
3b.
Now use a text editor to create an html file that will hold the content of
this new block. Call it newHTMLBlock.html. At the top of this file, type
block-content between the Smarty tags. Save this file in the
themes/your_AutoTheme_name directory (where all the other AutoTheme
templates are).
3c.
Still in the PN Admin page, in 3rd Party, AutoTheme: make sure
your_AutoTheme_name is selected, then click the Theme Defaults menu,
followed by the Block Control menu. The new PN block you created in Step 1
– aPostNukeBlock – will appear somewhere in the column on the left, under
the column heading Block. Notice that in the next column, under the column
heading Block Area, the value Left is displayed in a drop-down list.
(AutoTheme simply takes this from PostNuke's System, Blocks setting, which
we left as Left in Step 1.) In this drop-down list, change this value by
selecting anAutoThemeBlock, which you created in Step 3a. Also check that
in the far-right column, under the column heading Enable, the radio button
is set to Yes. Click the Save button at the bottom of the page.
3d.
Still in the PN Admin page, in 3rd Party, AutoTheme click the Theme
Defaults menu again. On the left, under the column heading Default Theme
Templates, you'll see your new AutoTheme block's name, anAutoThemeBlock,
followed by the word Blocks. In the next column, under the column heading
File name, select the name of the html file you created in Step 3b –
newHTMLBlock.html – from the drop-down list.
3e.
From the third column, under the column heading Show Block block by
default, click the Yes radio button.
Click the Save button at the bottom of the page.
4.
In your theme template, which will be called theme.html unless you've
created a different one, type <!—[anAutoThemeBlock-blocks]-->
wherever in the template you want your new menu to appear, and save your
changes. Note that what you typed is the name of the new block area you
created in Step 3a, followed by –blocks.
5.
Finally: what did you want to have displayed inside this new menu block? I
use Pagesetter a lot, so the example I'll give is of a link to one of my
Pagesetter publications.
Go back to the PN Admin page, to System, Blocks, and edit the block called
aPostNukeBlock, by replacing the dummy link #1 under the column heading URL
with a Pagesetter url, e.g.:
index.php?module=pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=1&pid=1
(Obviously you replace tid=1 and pid=1 with the relevant numbers for your
Pagesetter publication.)
Click Update.
When you refresh your website in the browser, you should see the menu
aMenuItem appear. When you click on this, it'll take you to your Pagesetter
publication.
End of Tutorial
[Edited on 14/6/2007 by pru]
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Morpheus
Newbie Posts: 8 Registered: 9/11/2004 Status: Offline
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posted on 7/20/2007 at 09:48 AM |
My custom blocks are now missing from the standard postnuke blocks module.
I do see them in the AutoThemes admin module, then into the Active Themes
option, select configure for my theme, select block areas, all my custom
blocks are in there, including the left, right, and center.
Seeing the blocks are missing from the Postnuke Blocks module how can I
edit the content of the custom blocks?
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Shawn
Administrator Posts: 4606 Registered: 10/7/2002 Status: Online
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posted on 7/20/2007 at 02:23 PM |
The blocks are still in the PostNuke Block admin, just not the areas. You
edit the blocks in Blocks admin and you change their position in AutoTheme
Block Control.
-Shawn
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Morpheus
Newbie Posts: 8 Registered: 9/11/2004 Status: Offline
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posted on 10/1/2007 at 05:23 AM |
Ok, in my postnuke block admin I only have the option to add left, center,
and right.
My theme has 9 custom blocks and they are all listed in the block area of
AT-Lite.
top left block
top center block
top right block
mid left block
bottom right block
bottom center block
bottom right block
bottom block
module top block
How do I activate my custom blocks to get my theme to display them, and how
to I edit the content?
I am working on a dummy website to get this working and if you need access
I can give you that to you. I guess I'm just not seeing how its being done.
I know it can't be this diffecult to add and edit existing blocks.
In the original PN Block admin module I only have the option to add left,
right, and center blocks.
Thanks...
[Edited on 1/10/2007 by Morpheus]
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Shawn
Administrator Posts: 4606 Registered: 10/7/2002 Status: Online
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posted on 10/1/2007 at 06:28 AM |
First, make sure you have the tags in your theme template for all the Areas
(i.e. [top left block-Blocks], [top center block-Blocks], etc.).
Then, go to AutoTheme > Themes > YOUR THEME > Page Defaults or
Custom Pages and make sure that the block Areas are set to display = YES
and that you have chosen a template for them.
Then, go to Block Control and assign some blocks to those Areas.
FYI... If you have Custom Pages already existing, then they each need to
be configured along with Page Defaults.
-Shawn
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