Hello - the blog template seems to work fine, with the exception of the author image. After creating an author / content tab / Author image generates these errors and does not display any earlier loaded images that are recognized ok by posts document type.
Request error: The URL returned a 404 (not found):
/umbraco/backoffice/UmbracoApi/Entity/GetById
Server error: Contact administrator, see log for full details.
Failed to retrieve ancestor data for id 1302
You are absolutely right! I didn't even realize this bug was present (until now) - it looks like you're the first one to use multiple authors on the blog so far :)
Well, the problem lies in the Custom_ArticleAuthorImagePicker datatype (under the "DotSee" folder in Developer/Data Types). It (mistakenly) has a start node defined, which doesn't of course exist as a folder in your media.
In order to quickly fix the problem, you can go to the data type and just pick another start node or just leave it empty to have it select from anywhere inside your Media. I'll take care to fix that in an upcoming update.
Please let me know if it worked (I've tested it locally, but you never know :) )
Sotiris - first, I wanted to thank you for your efforts to create such a great template. I searched under Umbraco's templates, and only saw either older or outdated templates. It probably took your team a few months to develop this, ah?
Hopefully, if anything else pops up, I would be glad to contribute some thoughts or ideas.
I was using just a single author for the blog. The fix to assign a start node or folder above worked!
A few more points. I have an old post for which I wanted to use an old date. No summary is provided.
The current date is being used. When I click on a name, is it supposed to be a link?
Actual blog post does not display a summary of the blog as the control suggests.
Should I open a new thread for another topic below?
Wondering how difficult would it be to customize testimonial pane for me without using too much C#, ASP.NET? I wanted to add an image of the person, logo of the company, possibly small photo related to the testimonial, a link to the case study.
First of all, thank you for your kind words! Indeed, it took us more than a couple of months to put it all together, but various interesting packages also occured as side projects (AutoNode, NodeRestrict, VirtualNodes, PropSense). Above all, it was a good exercise and it also was a chance to get working with strongly-typed models. It helped us standardize a lot of things too.
Regarding your questions: The alternate date does NOT replace the actual date! The alternate date is actually a literal that is presented in place of the date, but the actual date is still needed for sorting. So you will have to specify the date, otherwise the current date will be used (as you correctly observed).
The summary works only on the list view - not inside the detail view, where the content field takes over. I tested it and summaries do appear on the list view. (I hope I understood correctly here).
Regarding customizations of the testimonial pane: Well, the original HTML theme did not support such a design, so you'll probably have to create your own flavour of testimonials and include it in the theme - it's not as difficult as you may think, although you must pay attention to a lot of different things, e.g. rebuilding the models (via the Development tab) and altering the PageSectionRenderer.cshtml view to allow for inclusion of the new section (as well as permissions etc.).
The only quick customization I can think of is substituting the quote icon for an image, but I don't think this would look very good.
Blog author image
Hello - the blog template seems to work fine, with the exception of the author image. After creating an author / content tab / Author image generates these errors and does not display any earlier loaded images that are recognized ok by posts document type.
Request error: The URL returned a 404 (not found): /umbraco/backoffice/UmbracoApi/Entity/GetById
Server error: Contact administrator, see log for full details. Failed to retrieve ancestor data for id 1302
Any thoughts how to fix it are appreciated.
You are absolutely right! I didn't even realize this bug was present (until now) - it looks like you're the first one to use multiple authors on the blog so far :)
Well, the problem lies in the Custom_ArticleAuthorImagePicker datatype (under the "DotSee" folder in Developer/Data Types). It (mistakenly) has a start node defined, which doesn't of course exist as a folder in your media.
In order to quickly fix the problem, you can go to the data type and just pick another start node or just leave it empty to have it select from anywhere inside your Media. I'll take care to fix that in an upcoming update.
Please let me know if it worked (I've tested it locally, but you never know :) )
While you're at it, you can also check the "Pick only images" checkbox to allow for images only.
I'm attaching a screenshot indicating where the problem lies
Sotiris - first, I wanted to thank you for your efforts to create such a great template. I searched under Umbraco's templates, and only saw either older or outdated templates. It probably took your team a few months to develop this, ah?
Hopefully, if anything else pops up, I would be glad to contribute some thoughts or ideas.
I was using just a single author for the blog. The fix to assign a start node or folder above worked!
The current date is being used. When I click on a name, is it supposed to be a link?
Actual blog post does not display a summary of the blog as the control suggests.
Should I open a new thread for another topic below?
Wondering how difficult would it be to customize testimonial pane for me without using too much C#, ASP.NET? I wanted to add an image of the person, logo of the company, possibly small photo related to the testimonial, a link to the case study.
Example that needs testimonial author image too.
First of all, thank you for your kind words! Indeed, it took us more than a couple of months to put it all together, but various interesting packages also occured as side projects (AutoNode, NodeRestrict, VirtualNodes, PropSense). Above all, it was a good exercise and it also was a chance to get working with strongly-typed models. It helped us standardize a lot of things too.
Regarding your questions: The alternate date does NOT replace the actual date! The alternate date is actually a literal that is presented in place of the date, but the actual date is still needed for sorting. So you will have to specify the date, otherwise the current date will be used (as you correctly observed).
The summary works only on the list view - not inside the detail view, where the content field takes over. I tested it and summaries do appear on the list view. (I hope I understood correctly here).
Regarding customizations of the testimonial pane: Well, the original HTML theme did not support such a design, so you'll probably have to create your own flavour of testimonials and include it in the theme - it's not as difficult as you may think, although you must pay attention to a lot of different things, e.g. rebuilding the models (via the Development tab) and altering the PageSectionRenderer.cshtml view to allow for inclusion of the new section (as well as permissions etc.).
The only quick customization I can think of is substituting the quote icon for an image, but I don't think this would look very good.
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