Using Sections in the Blog App

I have not been able to find how to define two different Blog post types in the documentation. Can you point me to the documentation or describe how to do this please? How would I set up blog to choose to enter a news or general blog with different templates controlling what fields are entered? The way I am understanding Blog is the fields displayed to be entered when a new post is created are controlled by what is defined in post.html. How do I set it up to have multiple post types to select?

So I have put two templates in perch/templates/blog/post/. One is a copy of post.html for my general blog post and I named it blog_post. One is a copy of the post.html I have been using from the news app and I named it news_post. I left post.html in perch/templates/blog/post.html and it is the same template as perch/templates/blog/posts/blog_post.

I then attempted to enter a new blog post and the post entry form still has the fields defined in my perch/templates/blog/post.html template with a new field to select post type. My blog_post and my news_post templates should have different fields. The news_post template contains several custom fields.

I did select the news_post type and no change of fields. I saved it as a draft and no change of fields. I am assuming I still have something not set up right because I can not access the news_blog entry template once selecting the type.

Do I now need to do something to perch/templates/blog/post.html?

Yes, after Allow comments with the label Post type towards the bottom of the form.

When I pick a different template and save it just tells me I have not entered the required fields on the default template.

For testing purposes, I made my two templates exactly alike except the news template now has one additional field that is not required. So now the required fields between the two templates are exactly the same. They were not before.

Also, I put the new news template at perch/templates/blog/post.html just to make sure it renders correctly. It does.

Still when I select either of the templates in the drop down list of Post types, I get the error message to please enter the required fields. No template change to the one I request.

Help.

Not sure. It says "! Please fill out this field" with orange begind the "!".

Here is the template.

<title><perch:blog id="postTitle"> by </title>
<style type="text/css">
.blogaddthis img{
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
}
</style>
<div class="hentry">
    <h1>
        <a href="<perch:blog id="postURL" type="hidden" />" rel="bookmark" class="entry-title">
            <perch:blog id="postTitle" type="text" label="Title" required="true" size="xl autowidth" order="1" />
        </a>
    </h1>
    <p class="entry-published date">
        <perch:blog id="postDateTime" type="date" label="Date" time="true" format="%B %d %Y" divider-before="Meta information" /> 
        <perch:if exists="authorGivenName">
            by <perch:blog id="authorGivenName" type="hidden" /> <perch:blog id="authorFamilyName" type="hidden" />
        </perch:if>
    </p>
    <perch:if exists="image">
        <div>
            <img src="<perch:blog id="image" type="image" width="320" height="240" crop="true" label="Post Image" order="4" />" alt="<perch:blog id="postTitle" />" />
        </div>
    </perch:if>
     <perch:blog id="thumbnail-image" type="image" label="Thumbnail Image (50x50)" width="50" height="50" order="5" suppress="true" />
    <div class="description entry-content">
        <perch:blog id="postDescHTML" type="textarea" label="Post" order="2" editor="ckeditor" textile="false" markdown="false" required="true" html="true"/>
    </div>
</div>

<div >
    <p><strong> <perch:if exists="postLocation">  <perch:blog id="postLocation"  type="textarea" editor="markitup" markdown="false" encode="false" label="Location" textile="false" size="s" order="6"/>,  </perch:if></strong></p>


    </div>

<perch:blog id="excerpt" type="textarea" label="Excerpt" editor="ckeditor" html="true" order="3" suppress="true"  />
<perch:blog id="image" type="image" width="50" height="50" crop="true" suppress="true" />

It was reporting that my first required field - the title was not entered. I also had the description as a required field.

Those required fields were added to my template with the recent Blog App update, because they were on the supplied sample template suggested to use as a base for this new version of the Blog App that includes sections.

I removed the required fields and I can now get past this and the templates will swap when the post type field is changed and the post is saved.

What does happen though, is a system generated title is inserted in the title field when the post is saved to get the post template to change. Then you have to alter it when you are entering the post. Also, one needs to remember to select draft with the save of the empty template, because a post with just the system generated title is actually saved and will probably appear on your site, just because you did a save to switch post template types.

I personally can work around these quirks, but I would not want to subject a client to them.

I also checked this required field thing in IE, Firefox, and Chrome. Happens in all of them. Additionally, for your info, the blog form, which used to render with a perfect layout in Chrome, now only renders with a perfect layout in Firefox. It is not really bad in the other browsers, just a few alignment issues. Is there a Perch CSS file I should be adjusting for this?

Is there a way I can send you the three screen shots from the three different browsers so that you can see how they differ?

My apologies, when I expanded the windows to do screen shots, the form alignments improved. IE 11 does get script errors however if you care.

When you add a post:

Line: 99 Error: NotSupportedError

print screen from debugger at