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Is it possible to supress display of edition name

Asked by steveparks

I use the editions feature within channels, but on the channel pages and in the channel blocks I'd like to suppress the display of the edition name.. so for example

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NEWS
 November 2009

This is a News Article

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I'd like the option (without hacking the code and making upgrades more difficult if possible) to remove the display of 'November 2009'

That way the use of editions etc is behind the scenes to enable us to prepare page changes etc, and we change it when we change it :)

Are there any easy answers to this?

Thanks again for the help.

Steve

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bengtan (bengtan) said : 		#1

(Interesting... using channels/editions as enterprise level content change management :)

Yes. There are two ways to do this.

(Assuming you are using a recent version of ProsePoint)

The first (and probably better) way is to configure the edition type not to display the field field_eid. Goto .../admin/content/node-type/edition/display, tick the 'Exclude' checkbox in both columns and save. You may like to do the same for the other display types 'RSS', 'Search', 'Token' as well.

If you do this, please be aware that occasionally a ProsePoint upgrade may have to reset the settings for the edition type. After such an upgrade, you'll have to go back and re-exclude edition again.

ProsePoint will only reset the settings for the edition type very rarely, and only when absolutely necessary (when doing major architectural changes, for example). In practice, that has only happened once so far in ProsePoint's history. Fingers crossed, we may never have to do it again.

The second way to do this is through themeing. It is easy for a theme to explicitly not display the field field_eid. However, you will need to know some themeing to achieve this.

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steveparks (steve-parks-redgroup) said : 		#2

Thanks again for your help.

I'm okay with the custom theming - but I think I'll go down the not displaying the field route. It's only a temporary measure anyway while we launch. Once we're up and running properly we'll be more confident about being able to publish each edition bang on time!

By the way, in case you're interested in PP in the wild, our site is www.news42.co.uk, a UK satirical news site. It's not launched yet, just in live testing.

cheers
Steve

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bengtan (bengtan) said : 		#3

Hi Steve,

I did have a quick look. Good job, you already have a lot of content. More than we have on our website :)

If you keep an eye out, we'll be publishing a couple of posts on our site about themeing and customisation. If it's useful.