Editable Home Page Centerboxes [Support]

[gazag]

This add-on has always worked and never STOPPED category images from showing on the main page.. Glenn's changes are improvements to how the centerboxes are managed (better coding), and to make it v1.5 ready.. but the basic functionality of this mod is the SAME..

Ok what have i done wrong then? When i go to ADMIN > CONFIGURATION > LAYOUT SETTINGS and enable 'Categories - Always Show on Main Page'

All my centerboxes disappear!!!!!

[DivaVocals]

Ok what have i done wrong then? When i go to ADMIN > CONFIGURATION > LAYOUT SETTINGS and enable 'Categories - Always Show on Main Page'

All my centerboxes disappear!!!!!

Go back to the readme document and/or the admin settings for this add-on.. you have to have VERY SPECIFIC settings for this module depending on whether or not you have categories enabled on your main page.. My guess is you don't have the right settings for this module..

[pinkduck]

Tested out an install of the version 2.0beta (1.5 ready) on my test site and it went flawlessly. A great mod now even better. Also read through readme a few times and (genuinely) couldn't find anything much wrong there either! Just one missing "to" from the sentence "Initially I wanted to be able place specific..." on Description page.

I can't see that the changes in ver2 need anything done on the 'troubleshooting' page.

It may be worth adding some extra info about the box titles being set in the extra_definitions/middlebox_defines.php file? (I think that's right)

Confession time - I'd never tried the uneven column aligning 'hack' described in 'additional ingormation' (with screenshot). Simply didn't work for me however much I fiddled with the CSS. It 'sort of' worked in an old IE version (but looked ugly - crept over the footer), but not at all in any recent Firefox - just went 32k pixels down the screen! Has this become redundant? Shame if it has, but anyone aware of any other way as would be nice if it worked?

[DivaVocals]

Simply didn't work for me however much I fiddled with the CSS.

I know you think this is descriptive.. It's simply not.. It's difficult to troubleshoot things reported as "broken" without seeing it "broken" to determine the problem.. That said a link to your store with the code you tried in place would help..

[pinkduck]

OK. Managed to get the 'balanced column height' effect working (as described in Additional Information in the readme). For some reason the necessary outer div id when generated had an extra numeric attached (for example #navColumnMiddleWrapper2) which detached it from the id in the CSS.

Not sure why it's happening or how variable it may be, but either changing the #navColumnMiddleWrapper class in the CSS to suit, or (perhaps better) changing the class to an id (so make it .navColumnMiddleWrapper for CSS line 2) might at least be an interim fix.

Thanks again for letting me test.

[DivaVocals]

Not sure why it's happening or how variable it may be, but either changing the #navColumnMiddleWrapper class in the CSS to suit, or (perhaps better) changing the class to an id (so make it .navColumnMiddleWrapper for CSS line 2) might at least be an interim fix.

Thanks again for letting me test.

You're mixing up classes and IDs. #navColumnMiddleWrapper is an ID, not a class.. Simply changing it to a class is not the right approach as there are distinct reasons to use classes versus IDs the discussion of which will be a tad off topic for this thread.. Glenn would know better than I since it is his code driving this version whether this is a necessary, but if the code cannot be modified so that the number is not appended to the #navColumnMiddleWrapper ID then a simple update in the readme instructions explaining what CSS modifications are required should suffice..

[gjh42]

Since there can be more than one #navColumnMiddleWrapper on a page, each one must have a number appended to make its id unique. Each wrapper also has a class tag, .navColumnMiddleWrapper, so you can use that in the stylesheet to address all middlebox groups.
The readme and/or the stylesheet should be modified to address this fact.

[DivaVocals]

Since there can be more than one #navColumnMiddleWrapper on a page, each one must have a number appended to make its id unique. Each wrapper also has a class tag, .navColumnMiddleWrapper, so you can use that in the stylesheet to address all middlebox groups.
The readme and/or the stylesheet should be modified to address this fact.

I figured as much.. I haven't tested yet (plan to do so this week), but I love how you took my little seemingly convoluted idea to the next level.. I could have never make it function as you now have it functioning!! Well done..

[b90702098]

hi all, i installed the addon/SQL but it is not showing anywhere, neither in configuration->layout setting nor in configuration. I'm running on 1.5...Could anyone ghelp me with this? thanks a lot!

[gjh42]

The version currently in Free Addons will not work correctly in v1.5.0. I have updated it and offered the new version for testing (it's too big to attach to a post). I am going to be out of touch for the next week or so; maybe Diva can send you a copy of the zip?