Perch Blog - Blocks

Yes, as soon as I save it, then the block elements appear.

Forgot to say, but also after the first save, any subsequent blocks that are added appear normally.

Really odd behaviour.

So, everytime I create a new post using this template the initial block(s) are not displayed properly until 'save' is clicked.

Ok for sanity, and I thought I had already completed this test, but I also looked at putting 'blocks' in the normal post.html template (rather than a sub template) and they appear !!!

So, it seems that blocks only have a problem when you are using them within a blog sub-template, i.e. an alternate post template held within:

../admin/templates/blog/posts

Maybe this is the clue we have been waiting for ?????

Thanks

An alternative post template.

Apologies, I was just trying to think of a way to describe the template, hence why I put in it's location, i.e. '../admin/templates/blog/posts', so you could see that my new template 'news_post.html' lives within this directory and is being called rather than the standard blog post.html template.

Thanks.

Interesting that the blocks worked in the post.html template, one directory further up the structure ?

Is it a location issue, where the block calls do not understand the path to this 'blog/posts/' directory ?

Just a thought.

Ok, hopefully it can get resolved.

Thanks for the update.

Any news on this issue ?

Has anyone else resolved it ?

Of course.

<perch:blog id="mediaType" type="select" label="Select Media Type:" options="News|news, Event|event" allowempty="false" required="true" suppress="true"  />
<time class="dt-published" datetime="<perch:blog id="postDateTime" type="date" label="Date" time="true" format="Y-m-d H:i:s" divider-before="Publishing" />">
            <perch:blog id="postDateTime" type="date" time="true" format="%d %B %Y" suppress="true" /> 
</time>     
<header>
            <div class="container">
                <div class="row">
                    <div class="col-md-8 col-md-offset-2 text-center">
                        <h1 class="x-large block pt-medium pb-medium">
                            <perch:blog id="postTitle" type="text" label="Title" size="xl autowidth" />
                        </h1>
                        <p><perch:blog id="postDateTime" format="%d %B %Y" /></p>
                    </div>
                </div>                  
            </div>
        </header>



<perch:blocks>

        <!-- TITLE BLOCK -->
        <perch:block type="mediaTitle" label="Post Title:">
            <section class="page-content">
                <div class="container">
                    <div class="row">
                        <div class="col-md-8 col-md-offset-2 text-center">
                            <h1 class="x-large block pt-medium pb-medium">
                                <perch:blog id="mediaTitleID" type="text" size="m" label="Title:" />
                            </h1>
                        </div>
                    </div>                  
                </div>
            </section>
        </perch:block>

        <!-- LEAD BLOCK -->
        <perch:block type="mediaLead" label="Lead Block">
            <section class="page-content">
                <div class="container">
                    <div class="row">
                        <div class="col-md-10 col-md-offset-1 text-left lead">
                            <perch:blog id="mediaLead" type="textarea" label="Lead:" editor="redactorcustom" html="true" size="m" />
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </section>
        </perch:block>  

        <!-- TEXT BLOCK -->
        <perch:block type="mediaText" label="Text Block">
            <section class="page-content">
                <div class="container">
                    <div class="row">
                        <div class="col-md-8 col-md-offset-2 text-left test">
                            <perch:blog id="mediaText" type="textarea" label="Text Block:" editor="redactorcustom" html="true" size="m" />
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </section>
        </perch:block>

        <!-- INLINE IMAGE -->
        <perch:block type="mediaImage" label="Inline Image:">
            <section class="page-content">
                <div class="container">
                    <div class="row">
                        <div class="post-pic col-md-8 <perch:blog id="mediaClass" type="select" options="Pull left|col-md-offset-1,Pull right|col-md-offset-3" label="Image Alignment:" order="2" />">
                            <img src="<perch:blog id="mediaImage" type="image" density="2" label="Inline Image:" order="1" />" class="responsive" />
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </section>
        </perch:block>


</perch:blocks>

<perch:if exists="authorGivenName">
            by <span class="p-author h-card"><perch:blog id="authorGivenName" type="hidden" /> <perch:blog id="authorFamilyName" type="hidden" /></span>
        </perch:if>    

<!-- NEED TO CHANGE THE SET TO REFLECT THE CATEGORY SET I WANT SPECIFIC FOR THE BLOG -->
        <perch:categories id="categories-news" set="news" label="News Categories" display-as="checkboxes">
            <a href="archive.php?cat=<perch:category id="catSlug" type="slug" />" class="p-category">
                <perch:category id="catTitle" type="text" />
            </a>
        </perch:categories>

        <perch:blog id="homeImage" Label="Home Page Image:" type="image" width="350" crop="true" suppress="true" />

All of the blocks element.

This template fails to render each block element correctly, until the entry is saved. For example, if I add a textarea, only a grey bar with the ide of the block appears. Press 'Save' and the textbox and wysiwyg editor appears.

Happens for all items.

The template works fine when it is in the blog directory, but when it is saved as an alternative post template within the posts directory, it fails.

So, you have working blocks in a 'multiple' blog, where the template is held within the 'post' sub-directory.

Ok, maybe it's something to do with the set-up then. I know other people have suffered this issue.

Thanks for your persistence in trying to get to the bottom of it.

Would be interesting to hear if you set-up a new blog named news and tried to run the above template as an alternative blog template.

Again, it's odd that the template works fine when at the same level as post.html, but as soon as it is moved to the 'posts' directory location for alternative post templates it fails.

Any update concerning this. Have you got a working example Drew ? of working blocks in a 'multiple' blog, where the template is held within the 'post' sub-directory.

Thanks