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Section description
I would love to have a “Description” field for each section, with of course a tag to output that field’s contents.
I try to avoid using a different page (template) for each section, so the only way I know to add a description to each section is to hard-code a long list of if_section statements. It would be much easier and more elegant (and, well, Textpattern-like) if I could just pop a <txp:section_description /> tag into the page. Or maybe “caption” rather than “description” is the right word.
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Good thought — thanks. I’d still like to see the feature added, though. I prefer to keep content out of forms and pages as much as possible, and what I’m talking about is basically content.
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Actually, I manage this by creating an article with the status of sticky for each section, and have in my page form a sticky article before everything else.
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I prefer Kemie’s approach, because making an sticky article to describe your section is a “more-txp-semantic” approach.
An sticky article belongs to the “Content” tab, and being an article, you or your clients could easily edit it. Whilst being a “section description” field in “Presentation -> Sections” may be “against” TxP semantics. And you will need to give more access rights to your clients to edit that field, and so, they can screw up the sections.
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kemie wrote:
Actually, I manage this by creating an article with the status of sticky for each section, and have in my page form a sticky article before everything else.
Very sensible. Thanks.
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