Hi:

I just spent an inordinate amount of time trying to customize a journal template only to find out via a forum search that Custom Journal Templates may not be supported (date of post was early 2010).  I don't know if it is supposed to be now so I figured I'd check before I tear my hair out trying to figure out why my changes aren't working.

Thanks very much.

-eLindy

Maybe I should specify what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to display just the images that are in the journals. Lets say the journal contains a set of stock chart images, I'd like to be able to display those images in a grid. Is the best way to do this a custom journal template or a custom view?

Thanks.

-eLindy

I think you may be looking for this:
http://www.activemodules.com/blogs/...l-journal/

Or, you can also modify the "journaltemplates.config" file directly, under DesktopModules/ActiveSocial/config as I do, but it's not advisable unless you are aware of how it's structured.

Oops!

Just re-read your post. I think you're gonna want a custom view. Have a look about 5 posts down at "Gallery Images List":

http://www.activemodules.com/active...-examples/

Hi:

Thanks very much for your response.  I'll take a look at that.  You wouldn't happen to know of a resource that explains how all these template things combine together, would you?  I can find lots of places for templates but any modifications I make to any of the templates do not seem to affect anything. 

Anyway, thanks for the response - I'm going to check into those things now.

-eLindy

Posted By Jeff Blanks on 09 Mar 2011 10:41 PM
Oops!

Just re-read your post. I think you're gonna want a custom view. Have a look about 5 posts down at "Gallery Images List":

http://www.activemodules.com/active...-examples/

-eLindy

Looks like you may have gotten the majority of your questions answered in some of your other recent posts. But if not, feel free to update.

Cheers...

Hi Jeff:

Thanks very much for circling back with me! You are correct, I have most of my questions answered. My only significant open question right now is how to get the RSS feed to add the first image to the summary journal view - right now it just shows the RSS title and that links directly to the website. I would prefer that the contents of the articles be held locally in AS (I own the copyright to the ones I plan on doing this with).

I suspect I may have to get someone to write a custom RSS reader for me but I'll cross that bridge after I understand a bit more about what the built-in AS RSS reader can do.

Any ideas you may have in this area would be very much appreciated.

Thanks.

-eLindy