topic Re: Unable to change template for root landing page (3.4c, 3.4d) in Alfresco Archive

Unable to change template for root landing page (3.4c, 3.4d)

alfteam — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:21:26 GMT

By some reason: if I change root landing page template in Share there are no changes on WCMQS website. Despite the changing of template for root landing page the start page of WCMQS always rendered with "homepage" template.I tried it on 3.4c and 3.4d. It was clean installation in both case.There are

Re: Unable to change template for root landing page (3.4c, 3.4d)

stevegreenbaum — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:51:53 GMT

So you changed ws:indexPage=yourcustomhomepage in the root folder, but it still shows the OOTB homepage? Sounds like the old version is still cached.

Re: Unable to change template for root landing page (3.4c, 3.4d)

alfteam — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:56:45 GMT

The system was clean. There was no any previously installed and un-installed Alfresco.

Re: Unable to change template for root landing page (3.4c, 3.4d)

stevegreenbaum — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:07:50 GMT

I was referring to a cached version of the template, not a previous installation of Alfresco. Did you change ws:index= to point at your new page?

Re: Unable to change template for root landing page (3.4c, 3.4d)

alfteam — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:55:00 GMT

Yes I do.
I changed ws:index=myOwnPageTemplate in root folder's metadata and refreshed browser. I used several browsers: IE, Opera and Chrome
I'd like to note that everything works good in 3.4b.

Moreover I tried the following for 3.4c, 3.4d:

1. Change ws:index=myOwnPageTemplate.
2. Shutdown Alfresco.
3. Rename/move homepage.xml file from wcmqs WEB-INF.
4. Start Alfresco.
5. go to wcmqs web-site and see that index page is going to be rendered with homepage and can not find this template.

Re: Unable to change template for root landing page (3.4c, 3.4d)

bremmington — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:52:14 GMT

I think that the problem is that in 3.4.c an enhancement was made to fix ALF-5524. This was committed to HEAD on 8/Dec/2010.

This enhancement allows templates to be specified on an asset-by-asset basis. If you edit the full metadata of the index.html asset in the root section you should see that a template has been specified for it: "homepage". Change this value if you want to use a different template for the home page. This enhancement means that the template mapping for the ws:indexPage type on the root section is now correct for the "normal" case, rather than the special case of the home page. This feature also may have various other uses when you need to change the way just one or two assets in a section are presented.

Re: Unable to change template for root landing page (3.4c, 3.4d)

alfteam — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:09:33 GMT

Brian, thanks a lot!