Section Links

[dave_finlayson]

Not sue if this is a bug but here goes anyway. I am having a bash with V8 and getting on very well, upgrades custom theme fairly well, and with a bit of a playing I can get most things working.

However, when I pull in the V7 snapshot it changes all the section links from static links to cgi-bin links! Is this a bug or is there a way to change them back to static links?

Dave

[pinbrook]

It will depend on how you created your static links and which theme v8 thinks it is using as its base, as I would imagine the v8 based theme is now pulling in the nav system as defined by the theme.

You could go back to your v7 site and cut and paste the hard coded links to replace them

[jont]

Have you had a look in the upgrade log - there may be something noted in there - v8 always kills my modified FOOTERGUIDE with a default

[dave_finlayson]

Pretty sure it's the Slimline theme it uses as it's base. I have will a play and see if I cant change it. How can you find out which themes use static links?

[dave_finlayson]

Think I have sussed it. When upgrading it has replaced 'SectionLink' with 'SectionUrl' when what I really wanted was 'SectionPageName'. Just uploading now to check.

Cheers for your help!

Dave

[dave_finlayson]

Look like this has cleared the issue. Not sure if it's a problem with the upgrade or an issue with our custom theme but at least it's working! One more problem scored of the list!

Dave

[JoshSpeed]

We investigated this in Development. Looks like the layout "CSS Section Link Layout" has the wrong variable in it... so anyone using this layout will have the problem.... the fix is as recomended above.

This has been fixed for the production release.

We are still investigating to see if the upgrader also has this problem (or whether it is simply inheriting it from this layout).

It would be helpfull if you could just see what layout your upgraded site is using to draw the section links and let me know if it is "CSS Section Link Layout" so we can be sure we have dealt with the right problem.

Thanks Josh

[dave_finlayson]

Josh,

Thanks for that. The section link layout is a custom template, code below.

<!-- SectionLine HTML begin -->
<!-- Insert HTML for the beginning of a section title -->

<TABLE width="100" height="125" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="10" CELLSPACING="0" bgcolor="#F3F2FF">
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="center" VALIGN="TOP">
<A HREF="<actinic:variable name="SectionPageName" />"><!-- SectionNavImage HTML begin -->
<IMG SRC="<actinic:variable name="SectionImageFileName"/>"
ALT="<actinic:variable name="SectionName"/>"
BORDER=0
<actinic:variable name="SectionImageHeight"/>
<actinic:variable name="SectionImageWidth"/>

ALIGN="ABSMIDDLE">
<!-- SectionNavImage HTML end --></A><a href="<actinic:variable name="SectionPageName" />" class="sectionlinks"><br />
<actinic:variable name="SectionName"/></a> </TD>
<!-- <actinic:variable name="SectionName"/> <actinic:variable name="SectionDescription"/> -->
</TR>
</TABLE>

<!-- Insert HTML for the end of a section title -->
<!-- SectionLine HTML end -->