Hi. I am trying to edit my template to delete the subcategories of my "myalbum-p" module as stated here , but I am VERY confused on how to edit the templates. GIJOE's explanation doesnt seem that clear, and I searched XOOPS on ho w to edit templates but there was no "clear" step by step explanation. In one topic, someone just said duplicate it, and the next person says yay it worked...

I tried cloning my templates and editing the cloned templates but there was no change, the change GIJOE said would happen if i erased the specified portion of the categories template of the myalbum-p module. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could explain the template editing process (general) for me in a step by step, specific fashion.

Thank you!!

You can read more on Themes and Templates in the FAQ. In short you need to go to:
-xoops administration/system/templates
-clone your default template set and give it a new name
-next go to XOOPS administration/system/preferences/generalsettings and set the newly named/cloned template set as your default template set also set the Check for Changes to Templates to "YES" and scroll to the bottom then click GO.
-now go back to XOOPS administration/system/templates and go into your newly named cloned template set where you want to edit a file for a particular module.
- make your changes
- submit

Go see if your changes took affect.

If your site is open to public then you should go back in to your XOOPS administration/system/preferences/general settings and reset the Check for changes to Templates back to "NO" then scroll to bottom and click GO.

HTHs
Quest

This tutorial can be usefull:
Templates overriding : a small Tutorial


And reading XOOPS V2.0.14 release notes:

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Thank you so much! You are a lifesaver!! =) hope this clears up how to edit templates for other people too! Thanks again!

Here's a template-editing tip for you...

...when I am editing my templates, I select the template code that I want to edit, and then cut and paste this code into Dreamweaver, where I have created a new, empty html page (make sure you go into "code view" in Dreamweaver, and delete all the default html code that appears when you create a new page, so that you are not going to add in extra code to the template code when you paste it in).

Because Dreamweaver has both a "code view" and a "design view", pasting in the template code like this allows me to get a better idea of what the template looks like visually...so if I want to insert a table in the middle of the template page for example, I can see where to do so much more easily then if I was just editing the template code by hand in the XOOPS administration window.

Once I have made the changes to the template that I want to make in Dreamweaver, and change the Dreamweaver view to "code view", so that I am looking at the template code again, hit "select all", and then "copy". I then head back over to the correct template page, cut/delete out the old template code from the window, and paste in my new, modified template code, and hit save.


Make sure when you hit save that the message says "database updated"...sometimes, if you take too long to make the changes, it will say "taking you back to where you were..."...this means that the new code you just pasted in the box did not save, so you have to open up the template file again, paste the new code, and hit save again.

Here's another hint as well. Once I have set up my initial XOOPS site, I make sure all the modules I have installed have generated templates, then I clone this template set and set it as default in the general preferences. I make a new template set clone, and set it as the default every week or so, or when ever I have done alot of template editing. I always keep the previous version of the template set as a backup, and then delete everything else...so at anytime, I have the default template set (which you cannot delete?), the latest cloned version that I am using at the moment, and then the previous cloned version, which I keep as a back up. Hope that makes sense!

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