[TYPO3] TS for specific [news, or other] content elements / grabbing data from tt_news content elements? [resolved]

[Tyler Kraft]

Hi,

Your welcome and I hope the weather is nice in BC 8-)

Tyler

Kathryn Blair wrote:
> Hi Tyler,
> 
> Sorry, I think it does work. I did try it before, and I thought it didn't
> work (which is why I said that), but I tried it just NOW and it looks like
> it did work, so thanks a lot and I'm sorry I was confused about what was
> going on. The TS with annotation was EXTREMELY helpful. 
> 
> Thanks a lot -- I'm going to fiddle with it some more and make sure I fully
> understand how it works. 
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> Kathryn Blair
> -----Original Message-----
> Hi
> 
> How do you know that's not what you need? Did you try it?
> 
> They are not the same - my way lets you pull out one specific content 
> item (the one your editors can chnage things on) and then also tweak the 
> tt_news rendering for that one item alone!
> 
> # pull out the content
> dates.60=CONTENT
> dates.60.table = tt_content
> dates.60.select.pidInList=879
> dates.60.select.uidInList=1316
> dates.60.select.wrap = <div class="important-dates-employers"> | </div>
> 
> 
> 	# define the rendering for this news item
> 	# ( this will then use the defualt rendering for news and the
> settings 
> from the individual extension instance )
> dates.60.renderObj =< plugin.tt_news
> 
> 
> 	# redefine the rendering template for this one item only (in this
> area 
> we can then start to over-ride the default setting)
> 	#so if we wanted this one instance of the news item to always use 
> sub-catagories no matter any setting we could force that here
> dates.60.renderObj.templateFile = 
> fileadmin/Arts_Co-op/templates/news_templates/arts-co-op-headlines.tmpl
> dates.60.renderObj.useSubCategories=1
> 
> I could be wrong about this working but I can't see a reason it wouldn't 
> work.
> 
> hth
> 
> Kathryn Blair wrote:
>> Hi Tyler,
>>
>>  
>>
>> No, that's not what I need. 
>>
>