Ken Pooley wrote:
>
> Hey all...I just have three little ( I hope) questions but I couldn't on
> first glance figure out how to address them....
>
> Why can't I edit the "type" field of an article after I have created it?
It is just default setting for Admin Site because 'type' field could be
used for classifying articles. You could (and probably should) write
custom admin interface for your project that uses
mgd_update_article_type() function to update 'type' field. For example,
admin site at www.midgard-project.org does it allowing selection of
article content type using exactly 'type' field and article displaying
code on the real site changes modifiers for
&(article.content:<modifier>); according 'type' field.
> Is there a away to give the user's some control over the creation date in a
> story? Is it an auto date stamp upon creation? I have writers who want to
> be able to write a story today but have it dated last Friday....I thought
> about having them set the calendar date and then evaluating for that but I
> am afraid of messing up other calendar functions. Does anyone else run into
> this?
There is no function for changing this. Article creation date is set
during mgd_create_article() call and doesn't changed anymore.
> Am I right in assuming that $article = mgd_list_topic_articles will not get
> me content for the articles? Is there away around that? I want to list all
> of the articles in a section with the title and the content? In another
> place I found that I could get the abstract so I put the content into the
> abstract but in this case the content is rather long and it seemed like it
> might be a problem to make the abstracts that long....or should I just not
> worry....
This is a bug in Midgard 1.2.5 and previous versions. Already fixed in
Midgard 1.2.6-beta2 which will be announced in a day or two (it is
already in CVS repository but waits documentation updates).
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Sincerely yours,
Alexander Bokovoy
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