Hey guys, I am still in the middle of testing the groupjive system now that it is function through CB. One thing I am confused about is that Groupjive relies on CB's new architecture for itself to run along with its templates?

With that being the case, what is the proper procedure for creating new templates for groupjive? Is there a procedure? Is something required?

Actually how difficult would it be to convert pre-existing templates to use the new GJ/CB API?

Thanks,
James

ugcomputers wrote:
Hey guys, I am still in the middle of testing the groupjive system now that it is function through CB. One thing I am confused about is that Groupjive relies on CB's new architecture for itself to run along with its templates?

With that being the case, what is the proper procedure for creating new templates for groupjive? Is there a procedure? Is something required?

Actually how difficult would it be to convert pre-existing templates to use the new GJ/CB API?

Thanks,
James


Hello James,
thanks for asking

GJ is now using the API and the plugin system of CB 1.2

You easily implement new GJ templates by using the existing CB plug system.
Please check out the HEMI Template example.

I´m sure you will easily find out how it works.
It would be nice if you can post your templates here - we will arrange a seperate template area soon.

Ok, that was what was confusing I think.

I will take a look at that and work it. Does this mean that all plugins will be installed via the CB Plugin Manager?

For example Frieboard Integration, Jom Comment, etc..?

Thanks,
James

ugcomputers wrote:
Ok, that was what was confusing I think.

I will take a look at that and work it. Does this mean that all plugins will be installed via the CB Plugin Manager?

For example Frieboard Integration, Jom Comment, etc..?

Thanks,
James

YES

Hey buddy, check your PMS I would like to discuss some things in further detail if possible.

Thanks,
James

Hi all,

GJ doesn't use a new template system, but there were some changes (which are not complete)

We used patTemplate before and use it now. In the current release it is directly included in the Groupjive package. We decided this step, because we had some trouble with compatibility issues and it seems patTemplate will not be included in further Joomla versions (and I don't know if it is a part of Mambo).

However, the template is not processed directly like in older versions of Groupjive. Due the fact that we have a plugin system now, we decided to collect all template informations and process the template lastly when all plugins and the core of Groupjive added their parts to the template.

So, now it is possible to add special content to a group layout by using a plugin.

Thatswhy we added a template named skeleton.tmpl. This template contains all the blocks that can be filled. The templateprocessor puts the content to the specific block (defined now hardcoded in the code - later a group manager can decide where the content is shown).

The basic template functionality from former Groupjive versions is the same. You can create a new templatefolder and only put the changed files in there. So you can have a new template which only has a CSS file.

If you have questions or feature requests, just ask.

If you are a designer or themes guru feel free to help us creating a new standard template

Cheers,
Micha