is it possible to have two Announcement list layouts?

[Grant Senior]

I have the Announcement News list layout working like this, it's fine and does what I want it to do.

<div class="newsLinkBox">

    <h2><a href="#">{tag_subject}</a></h2>

    <div class="newsLinkDate">{tag_eventfromdate}</div>

    <p class="newsLinkWords">

        {tag_body, 100}

    </p>

</div>

But I would also like the list to work as just links, like, <h2><a href="#">{tag_subject}</a></h2>  Is that possible? Can I have more than the 1 layout for an Announcement list?

This page has the News List items as links in the footer (but it's forced, not dynamic and would prefer it to be part of the module if possible)  waitakeries.businesscatalyst.com/testingStuff.html  This page has the list as they appear according to the List template and are generated by the module  http://waitakeries.businesscatalyst.com/news.html

[Alex_Pavelescu]

Hi

What you're probably looking for is Custom templates: http://helpx.adobe.com/business-catalyst/partner/using-custom-templates-modules.html

Let me know if this is not what you're looking for

Kind Regards,

Alex

[Grant Senior]

Hi Alex, thanks for your answer, it was helpful.

I'm now trying to use the news announcements for both the desktop site and a separate mobile version, so am wantign to use a different template for the mobile announcements details.

On the mobile News page, seen here,  news - Latest News , I have altered the module code generating the announcement list from {module_announcement,a,,,,} to the following so that it uses a mobile specific template. The template is in the Templates folder.

{module_announcement,a template="/Templates/MOBILE-INNER-News-pages.tpl"}

This isn't working yet, on selecting a news item link on the mobile version the detail loads but it is the desktop version not the mobile version. Can you see what I've done wrong?

Cheers

Grant

[Grant Senior]

It occurred to me that the News Announcement itself has been assigned the desktop template. Is that why I'm getting the desktop version, not the mobile? If so {module_announcement,a template="/Templates/MOBILE-INNER-News-pages.tpl"} is redundant? Is the code snippet not over-riding this?

[Grant Senior · Accepted solution]

THIS IS NOW THE CORRECT ANSWER THAT WORKS

For anybody ending up on this page looking for this information, I've since returned to this problem needing to do the same thing on another site and have managed to solve things.

For whatever reasons, this didn't work for me   {module_announcement,a template="/Templates/MOBILE-INNER-News-pages.tpl"}

But nearly a year later, and now with the latest BC updates it is working (may have had something to do with it, don't know, as far as I am aware I was following all the correct steps and info I could find for the example above which wasn't working). The obvious difference is the id number, but there was no mention of it being needed in previous info.

The following DOES work, giving me an alternate list template output ( you can omit "_blank" it will still work).

{module_announcement,c,46509,,,_blank template="/layouts/announcement/listdifferent.tpl"}

See this link for more information about it  Modules | Quick reference  and scroll to News.

{module_announcement,a,,,Ajax,_blank template="/Layouts/Custom/news.tpl"} - displays all the news items using the "Ajax" effect using the news.tpl custom template

[Liam Dilley]

This is because you need all the announcement parameters Grant. If you do not provide the correct comma seperation it considers the template option as one of those parameters and thus wont work. IT was you or someone else in another thread I did mention this.

With the new rendering engine and things soon this year to be the standard and default this will change as you can do named parameters and not include all of the elements.

[Grant Senior]

Yes, you're right, but all of the info I was following at the time didn't let me know that all announcement parameters are required, perhaps they assumed I knew this, which I obviously didn't, I only knew what I knew at the time (not sure what other thread you mention). I also posted this problem on BC Cafe on LinkedIn and nobody pointed out needing all the parameters. The Modules Quick Reference was what made the penny drop, and perhaps a year's more BC experience has helped and made things clearer too.

Thanks Liam, I always welcome your comments!

[Liam Dilley]

The thing you need to know Grant is your running on the old docs.

http://docs.businesscatalyst.com/dev-assets/reference

http://docs.businesscatalyst.com

This has been the one BC has asked everyone to use for a while now and its been updated a lot and is the most accurate and up to date documentation BC has ever ran.

[Grant Senior]

Awesome! Thanks for those, very helpful.

[Grant Senior]

Hi Alex,

I still can't get a different Announcement list template happening. I've tried what you've suggested from this page Business Catalyst Help | Using custom templates for modules  I created a separate template for a list of News Announcements to appear on the home page, I placed the following code on the home page,

{module,announcement,a template=”Layouts/Announcement/listHome.tpl”}

but it's not working, all I get is the code displaying, as seen here Home Page

Any ideas what's going wrong?

Cheers

Grant