Question

I am re-developing a template. I have a working template in the templates directory:

templates/view.demo.tmpl

reading TWikiTemplates#Finding_Templates I understand that I can put the content of this template in topic DemoSkinViewTemplate in the same web and remove the templates/view.demo.tmpl file.

However, the result is not the same. Instead I revert to the view as if no skin is defined.

What am I missing?

Here is the content of the template:

%TMPL:INCLUDE{"demo"}% %TMPL:P{"htmldoctype"}% %TMPL:P{"htmlhead"}% 
%TMPL:P{"topicaction"}%
TWIKI
 %INCLUDE{WebDemoEditMenu}% 
%TMPL:P{"qms_page"}% 
%TMPL:P{"topicaction"}%
 %META{"attachments"}%
 %TMPL:DEF{"topicaction"}% %EDITTOPIC% | Attach | More | Publish %TMPL:END%

Environment

-- BramVanOosterhout - 10 Nov 2007

Answer

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I remain interested in an answer. I have been unable to get the documented mechanism to work. I must be missing something. Any suggestions?

-- BramVanOosterhout - 27 Nov 2007

I am STILL interested in an answer. I have managed to get covers to work. Both in view and when publishing. I have also worked out how the skinpath works. And the template for view.cover.tmpl will produce a standard view when using the browser, but when publishing it will use the publish view.

In essence, view.cover.tmpl includes render %TMPL:INCLUDE{"render"}%

I have two templates: render.standard.tmpl and render.publish.tmpl. In the view script I use the cover,standard skinpath, in the publish script the skinpath is cover,publish,standard. works a treat.

But now I am faced with a multitude of view.cover.tmpl files, one for each cover category. This is annoying, because they are essentially user driven and i don't want to give users access to the template directory.

But i cannot get the SkinTopic to work!

Any suggestions?

-- BramVanOosterhout - 03 Dec 2007

I am quite confused. You have covers working, you mention view.cover.tmpl and render.standard.tmpl. So I tend to think you got the template naming mixed up.

I am not saying it won't work, but what we're used to is:

• If you want to change the view of a page, use view.skinname.tmpl, where skinname is your skin: "publish", "standard" etc.
• Use cover if you need a fallback to the default (custom) skin. For instance SKIN = standard and COVER = publish will show the standard view if no publish template is found
• To set the view template of a topic, you can set VIEW_TEMPLATE = SkinNameView, while the template is defined in SkinNameViewTemplate.

-- ArthurClemens - 03 Dec 2007

Thanks Arthur. I understand your confusion. The problem is that I cannot take the definition in view.demo.tmpl and paste that in DemoSkinViewTemplate, remove the view.demo tmpl and still get the same result. That is the bug report 10 November 2007.

On 3 december I thought it might be useful to to explain why i wanted to solve this problem. Sorry to confuse you.

I could not sleep last night, went to hospital today and have worked it out. See my notes at the bottom of TWikiTemplates.

Suggestion for improvement: mention the TemplatePath on the TWikiTemplates page. Reading through the code helped a lot.

Thanks for your response.

And for the reference to the VIEW_TEMPLATE variable. I was not aware of it. I am using COVER in the way you suggest to use VIEW_TEMPLATE. Is View_TEMPLATE a documente feature. I don't find it in TWikiVariables.

I have closed this call.

-- BramVanOosterhout - 04 Dec 2007