Hi Peter

I use Articles Anywhere and Snippets to create a Content Templater template and automatically have it load into articles for a given category. The template takes advantage of the custom fields assigned to that article through Articles Anywhere. In that category I have a few hundred articles that have been created and saved using that template.

If I make an alteration to the html structure of that Content Templater template, how do I ensure all the articles using that template pick up the changes without going into each article and resaving?

I am coming from someone who used Form2content for many years (now ceased of course) and I am now developing a site using your components Articles Anywhere and Content Templater in its place. In F2C when changing a template there was a refresh button that resaved all the selected articles to reflect the changes made to the underlying template.

Thanking you in advance for thoughts/advice/instruction.
Steve

I see what you mean Peter.

So even using the Joomla API to create a small script to re-save all articles from a category (assuming I can do that) would not fire Content Templater to load the template assigned to that category on save?

A related seperate question to simplify an alternative blog layout, can the Articles Anywhere syntax be used in the php files? On a search I could only find locked forum posts about this.

Again thank you for your assistance.

Regards
Steve

Hello Peter

I answered my own question, quite easy really create an com-content article override assign the article to that override and insert the same code/html structure with article anywhere tags in place of the $this->item->text; (as the article relies totaly on custom fields).

I can't envision any drawbacks? Can you see any?

Regards
Steve

Hi Peter

With just that action of being able to bulk save articles (maybe a plugin using the article batch system) you would have the simplest, most user friendly and I think most effective native CCK for Joomla.

All my best
Steve