By duckpuppy on

I'd love some advice on using CCK, Content_templates, Views, etc. to create some specialized "review" blog nodes. By that I mean I would like them to be displayed in the blogs of whichever user created the review node at the proper date and time location. I'll make several of them, but restaurant, movie, comic book, and tv episode are the ones I have in mind right now. If I had a few hints, pitfalls, or even a simple walk through of getting one of them done I could move forward with more confidence than I have right now. I want to use the CCK and Content_templates so I can control the types of info (consistent rating scale, displayed how I want it, what information MUST be included, etc) rather than just letting users enter them as a simple blog entry. It doesn't seem that difficult a task, I just feel like my understanding of how to use CCK et al is a little fuzzy around the edges. If making the new node types show up as part of the user's blog is too difficult, it's the least of my wishlist.

Thanks for any help you guys can give

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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duckpuppy commented

OK, I'm giving up on one of the things in that list: Contemplate. It seems to not work correctly in Drupal 5. I finally managed to get a body template to "stick", though creating it wasn't easy. None of the links in the list of items in the default node template (the "click a field to enter it into the template" links) worked... when clicked, nothing was added to the edit box to the left. Any time I made changes and submitted them, I could go see the visual changes in my already created nodes of the type I had changed, so far so good. However, if I went back to edit that template further, the edit box had only the default template for that node - all of my changes were gone. Way too frustrating. Hopefully this module will get more useful in the future.

Update:
I need to apologize a bit for this comment - it was borne out of frustration. I've sorta fixed the problem - I should have noticed right off what was wrong: FCKEditor was the problem with the node list links and the lost code apparently. Not sure why using FCKEditor caused it to populate with the default template every time rather than the custom template I had entered, but it did. Now I have another problem, though - I can add edit-teaser, edit-body, and edit-rss to the list of FCKEditor textarea exclusion names so that it isn't used on that page, but that stops it from appearing on most content entry pages because edit-body is used for the body text entry textarea name on all the content entry pages (ie, the page where you enter a new blog entry). *sigh*

I'm not sure if I think Contemplate should change the textarea names to be more Contemplate-specific or if the FCKEditor module should extend it's exclusion system to accept URL or node names as well as textarea names.