Inserting a template element into a news item

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Hi all


I am trying to insert a template element in the middle of a news item… so, maybe a div area with an image (say, an advertisment).



I have tried a few things but this doesn't seem possible… what would be ideal would be:



Headline



Paragraph



Advertisement



Paragraph



Naturally I don't want to be manually inserting the advertisement into the content area manually every time.



Is this something that a painted layout can achieve?



Cheers

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[quote]Is this something that a painted layout can achieve?
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Short answer: Yes! :slight_smile:

3

hi,


this sounds interesting…

I haven't become comfortable with the Paint Layout yet.



But can you show an example of how the paint layout knows where a paragraph ends and a new starts in the body content?

4

News items have a summary bodycopy and body bodycopy, so you could potentially have:


(note these keywords are from memory and may not be spot on)


    
%asset_attribute_headline%

    
    %asset_attribute_summary%
    
    (advertisement, possibly using nested content)
    
    %asset_attribute_body%


I'm not sure you could do what has been described with just a standard page and one div, however you could do it with a standard page and two divs (using an asset listing of the divs).
5

As Dan says, the simplest way to do this with a paint layout is to insert the advert inbetween the summary and the body keywords. It would require development to insert something in the middle of a single div.

6

Ok,


then I had my horses in the stable on this. :slight_smile:



Thanks