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[uzeal Friend uzealJoin date: August 2010Posts: 4Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#153897

Hello, I want to move a module block next to the slideshow and remove the right block so that I can have a larger article space. I was hoping that with the new JAT3 that I would be able to do this pretty easily but so far I haven’t had much luck. I have read the wiki and watched the tutorial video you posted on youtube but still haven’t had any progress.

Visually what I want:

Any help is greatly appreciated!

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#354020

I had the same task, but could not accomplish it as I wanted. It seems that T3 framework does not give you a possibility to add new position in the middle.php (at least without hacking). The pre-defined ones are content-mass-top, content-top, left & right – that’s all (please correct me, if I’m wrong).

So, a sort of solution could be adding user1 and user2 blocks above the main (middle) blocks.
Default layout is


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layout>
<name>Default</name>
<description>Default layout for JA Anion template</description>
<blocks name="top" style="xhtml">
<block name="header" type="header"></block>
<block name="cpanel" type="usertools/cpanel"></block>
<block name="mainnav" type="mainnav" markup="3"></block>
</blocks>
<blocks name="middle" colwidth="20" markup="3" fixheight="1">
<block name="content-mass-top" style="raw">content-mass-top</block>
<block name="content-top">content-top</block>
<block name="inset1" width="20">left</block>
<block name="right1" width="30">right</block>
</blocks>
<blocks name="bottom" style="xhtml">
<block name="botsl" type="spotlight" markup="3">user5,user6,user7,user8</block>
<block name="navhelper" type="navhelper" markup="3"></block>
<block name="footer" type="footer" main-inner="1"></block>
</blocks>
</layout>


My version is (slideshow is assigned to position user1, another module – to user2)


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layout>
<name>Default</name>
<description>Default layout for JA Anion template</description>
<blocks name="top" style="xhtml">
<block name="header" type="header"></block>
<block name="cpanel" type="usertools/cpanel"></block>
<block name="mainnav" type="mainnav" markup="3"></block>
<block name="topsl" type="spotlight" special="left" specialwidth="75">user1,user2</block>
</blocks>
<blocks name="middle" colwidth="20" markup="3" fixheight="1">
<block name="content-top">content-top</block>
<block name="inset1" width="20">left</block>
<block name="right1" width="30">right</block>
</blocks>
<blocks name="bottom" style="xhtml">
<block name="botsl" type="spotlight" markup="3">user5,user6,user7,user8</block>
<block name="navhelper" type="navhelper" markup="3"></block>
<block name="footer" type="footer" main-inner="1"></block>
</blocks>
</layout>


1 user says Thank You to gray for this useful post

1. uzeal

[uzeal Friend uzealJoin date: August 2010Posts: 4Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#354024

Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for!

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#354025

<em>@uzeal 192048 wrote:</em><blockquote>Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for!</blockquote>

I’m very glad that my solution was helpful 🙂

To JA Admins: Still, I’d like to clarify are the ‘content-mass-top, content-top, left & right’ blocks pre-defined and I could not without hacking add any new blocks in middle.php?

If it requires hacking – could you please provide a short guideline? Thanks!

[xarxa palestina Friend xarxa palestinaJoin date: October 2010Posts: 4Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 3]

#362012

there is content-mass-bottom also.

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