Project:Nodes In Block
Version:6.x-1.6
Component:User interface
Category:support request
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:closed (works as designed)

Issue Summary

I think this module is really snazzy! But I am having a little trouble figuring out how to make the "visibility" settings easier to deal with.

My use case is:
- a simple content type with fields "title" ,"body", and "sidebar".
- through the tpl I made it so the "sidebar" displays if $node->nodesinblock, otherwise the "title" and "body" display.

That means that the main content (let's say a recipe) and the sidebar (let's say a list of ingredients) are connected on the same edit page, but the sidebar content displays in the sidebar. Awesome! That is exactly what I want.

However! When a user creates a new recipe, they have to know/understand enough to set the visibility to "node/345" or whatever node they're working on [it also means they can't set visibility until the node is saved and has been assigned a path &/or nid].

At least, that's how it's set up right now. Is it possible to set it up so that the block auto-displays only on its own node, without the user having to set it specifically? (It seems like the settings can handle this but I read through the readme.txt and couldn't figure it out.)

Thanks!

Comments

#1

Status:active» closed (works as designed)

Yeah, it's indeed a problem when there is no nid known yet - however toggling the 'Use the referring page as the default value for visibility at the content node form' checkbox should automatically fill in the referer. Can't really do much more about that.