New Page, Need Automatic Template Element Detection about shinycms

[denny]

I think you're misunderstanding how the system works.

The idea at present is that a Template Admin (somebody with HTML skills such as yourself) creates the CMS Templates with the correct element stack, based on the .tt files, and then your 'normal' site users (Page Admin) only have to create CMS Pages using the existing CMS Template records, which will prepopulate the element stack for them appropriately.

Looking at your site (thanks for giving me the login details on IRC) it looks like you're not adding any elements to your CMS Template. That means every time you create a CMS Page, you have to add the elements manually. Add them to the CMS Template, then any new CMS Pages created using that CMS Template will get the right elements automatically.

[denny]

(That said, it would be nice to autopopulate the CMS Template page with the suggested element stack and only require the admin to set types - it's on the TODO list but a long way down it! It wouldn't work for more complicated templates anyway, for example those which use loops to build up element names programmatically.)

[wbraswell]

Okay I'm dumb, thanks for setting me straight, it works great now!

[denny]

No, you're not dumb, the documentation is inadequate! Please consider writing up some extra words for the Getting-Started doc that explain this part of the system more clearly, so the next person doesn't trip up the same way. :)