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[lorddonk Friend lorddonkJoin date: November 2009Posts: 20Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanked: 4 times in 1 posts]

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Hello, I am new to the powerful T3 framework. I have worked through it little by little and thought I was doing pretty well but alas I have reached an impasse and need to ask for help.

So, I went into the templateDetails.xml file and added the positions I’d like to have (toolbar, header, slideshow, left, right, bottom, footer) but even though they show up as positions to put modules into through the “Module Manager”, the positions never appear.

Furthermore, (possibly related) when I run the index.php?tp=1 command, it is not coming up with the positions I defined. The positions that show up aren’t even defined anywhere!

I tried messing with it for a long time and I thought that I was supposed to make a file in /templates/theme/core/etc/layouts/default.xml however I did that but my positions still do not appear.

Hoping for some help from someone more experienced that I. I’ve read through the documentation which is very good (even better than the documentation for some of the themes!) but I’ve finally goten stuck.

Thank you to anyone who can point me in the right direction. Regards,
Chris

[chavan Friend chavanJoin date: October 2014Posts: 4612Downloads:0Uploads:110 Thanked: 1440 times in 1290 posts]

#389246

Did you try this

http://wiki.joomlart.com/wiki/JA_Template_Framework/FAQs#Creating_new_module_positions

[lorddonk Friend lorddonkJoin date: November 2009Posts: 20Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanked: 4 times in 1 posts]

#389277

Chavan,

I did not see that page and it seems to be exactly what I want! Thank you! However, I tried it and it didn’t work :(( I even downloaded the fresh Ja_PurityII template to use as a base but it seems things were updated because the files it references don’t exist there anymore. I think that this process changed from T2-T3.

Going a little further, I completely deleted my new template and I went back to the basic ja_t3_blank template and I found something even more interesting! Here is a screenshot of the positions that show up when you ?tp=1 :

But here is a list of the positions the template is actually trying to make per the templateDetalis.xml file (most of which don’t show up!!)


<positions>
<position>hornav</position>
<position>breadcrumbs</position>
<position>search</position>
<position>banner</position>
<position>left</position>
<position>right</position>
<position>top</position>
<position>user1</position>
<position>user2</position>
<position>user3</position>
<position>user4</position>
<position>user5</position>
<position>user6</position>
<position>user7</position>
<position>user8</position>
<position>user9</position>
<position>user10</position>
<position>user11</position>
<position>footer</position>
<position>syndicate</position>
<position>debug</position>
<position>mega1</position>
<position>mega2</position>
<position>top-panel</position>
</positions>

Could something be wrong with the files from JoomlaArt? I’ve downloaded this 3 times and is the only thing I’m working on so I don’t think I’m downloading “partial” files or anything. This is really frustrating! I can see how powerful T3 can be if I could just get my head around it and get it working…

Thank you for your help! I look forward to any other responses that can shed some light on this situation!

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[lorddonk Friend lorddonkJoin date: November 2009Posts: 20Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanked: 4 times in 1 posts]

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I have no idea what happened, but somehow it is now working. I searched and searched yesterday but I came upon this thread today: http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/how-to-add-content-top-module-position/ and that is what worked. However, please read the post above considering the positions that the default template is making. Not only is the “blank” template coming up red on a fresh install but those positions it defines do not exist by default.

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