XF 1.2 What happened to Template Modification in XF1.2.2 ?

[swatme]

Hi

when XF 1.2 is introduced, The Template Modification System (similar to TMS addon) was builtin already
in xf 1.2 , so i decided to remove TMS 3rd party addon since theres already built in.


now when i updated to XF 1.2.2 , the Template Modification is gone?
i cant add new template modification , it only shows the previous template i custom modified

is it really gone in XF 1.2.2 ?

 

[Adam Howard]

How about you just respect the developers' wishes in this instance?

Mike and Kier have decided that's how it's going to be and no amount of whining on multiple threads is going to change it.

Fair enough.

But I'm going to have to respect the fact that when asked about a TMS, I'll simply direct people to the fix.
http://xenforo.com/community/resources/restore-new-button-for-template-modifications.2247/

 

[Chris D]

Promote your resources. No one will stop you from doing that.

Likewise, I won't stop recommending people use direct template edits

 

[cclaerhout]

@swatme , @Adam Howard

The technical reason for this is certainly that the XenForo Template Modification system targets the master template, which as you know requires also to use the debug mode to access it. So this tool just follows the same logic. You can try to ask @guiltar, whose TMS addon extends now the official one (allows users to do custom modifications per style) to display this menu and prevent any modifications in the master template (when the debug mode is disabled).

Put aside this reason, such a tool is of course a great asset to prevent direct template edits and perform faster updates when comes a new version of XenForo. When vBulletin 3.6 was released a French website about vB was using the new hook system to do all the templates mods. When an update of vB came, it was really quick to update whereas on my own forum I needed to spend a lot of time to check all mods with an extra compare/merge tool. Of course this system used a lot of regex and was far away to be user friendly. But a simple search & replace system is understable by anyone, especially admins.

 

[swatme]

Debug mode is not required to create a TM.

Navigate to admin.php?template-modifications/add

haha this should solve my worries

i just /add in the url and its there!
thanks @Brogan

i consider it as EASTER EGG of XF

 

[Neil E.]

Debug mode is not required to create a TM.
Navigate to admin.php?template-modifications/add

So I create a new modification (XF 1.3.0) which by default changes the master style. Then I go to back to template modifications and with the list there is a dropdown for style choice. I choose an alternate style to check and get the message that there are "no modifications for this style". How was I supposed to make a modification for that alternate style in the first place?

 

[Paul B]

The core system applies to all styles - there is no dropdown.

I suspect you are using the add-on.

 

[Neil E.]

And I suspect you are right, no wait you are right!

OK, now I'm totally bamboozled. With the TMS addon disabled the dropdown is gone.
Obviously TMS 1.3.0 works much differently than I expect.
I thought the list would have a Template Modification (TMS) line for accessing the addon.
I loved the simplicity of the old TMS whereby it was style dependant and very handy for my limited skill set.

Paging Mr. Guiltar to the addon topic.