Notification and template override

Wednesday 18 February 2009 2:59:35 am

Hi,

I would like to send more (image, more infos) than a simple link while sending notifications but I'm not able to override notification templates.
I recreate the tamplates/notification/handler/ezsubtree/view/plain/plain.tpl but it doesn't seems to be enought.

As I don't want to hack the standard template, could someone tell me if there is an additionnal trick?

Regards.

Laurent

Wednesday 18 February 2009 9:25:53 am

Norbert,

As it's a bit different than to match a class identifier or a node, I don't really know how to write the override section.
Do you have an example?

In ezsubtreehandler.php, the .tpl is call like this:
$result = $tpl->fetch( 'design:notification/handler/ezsubtree/view/plain.tpl' );

But "design:" doesn't seems to be efficient.

Laurent

Wednesday 18 February 2009 12:45:01 pm

Hi Laurent,
I've never exactly understood when a override directive is needed and when not.
But I would try it like this:

[plain_notification] 
Source=notification/handler/ezsubtree/view/plain/plain.tpl
MatchFile=path/to/your/template/plain.tpl
Subdir=templates

Hope that helps,

Norbert

Thursday 19 February 2009 9:00:41 am

Hi Laurent,
yes the class template overrides are clear to me, thanks.
What I do not understand is the override of other parts of the system ...
Some times it seems to be enough to recreate the exact path in your design, other times it doesn't work and you have to write an override section. Here is an example were it doesn't work without:

[help_left_menu]
Source=parts/help/menu.tpl
MatchFile=parts/help/menu.tpl
Subdir=templates

Is there any logic I miss behind this?

Thanks,
Norbert