Metadata of news items in simple edit mode?

Squiz Matrix Support
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Hi,


I'm working on a news release section of our site based around Whats New pages / News items, using custom metadata schemas to pull in additional information on to the page.



Its all working very nicely but the business unit who will eventually maintain the list needs to access the metadata from simple-edit mode. We have a system of 'toolboxes' which print a listing of pages and shortcut to simple-edit of the pages, as well as allowing users to upload news entries via asset building pages. It seems that news items are the only type of asset where the drop-down menu for metadata does not appear in simple edit mode. Is there a keyword I can use to allow the metadata to be edited in this way?

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You need to ensure that if you're using Layouts, that you configure a Layout for the Metadata screen of the News asset. Otherwise, the %screen_menu% drop-down will not show the screen.

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thanks! working beautifully now.


Might i suggest that the Layout manager displays layouts on the details screen before the lock is acquired?



I nearly had heart failure when i committed the page and all my details disappeared… :blink:

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Okay…now I need to find the list of keywords for a News Item asset. I can get it to display status and news headline, contact name etc, but I would like to be able to have the full details screen - in particular the URL links and Summary WYSIWYG - available in simple edit.

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[quote]Okay…now I need to find the list of keywords for a News Item asset. I can get it to display status and news headline, contact name etc, but I would like to be able to have the full details screen - in particular the URL links and Summary WYSIWYG - available in simple edit.
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You can use the %details-% keyword to reproduce the entire Details screen in Simple Edit. I’m not sure if the individual fields have been enabled.

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You can find a list of keywords available for layouts - including the Details screen’s individual fields - in the System Administration Manual (page 68). This is available for download from the MySource Matrix Documentation download page.

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[quote]You can find a list of keywords available for layouts - including the Details screen’s individual fields - in the System Administration Manual (page 68). This is available for download from the MySource Matrix Documentation download page.
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Yeah, I don’t think the News Item asset has had its Summary and Body attributes exposed to Simple Edit. Not sure on that, though.

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thanks! :slight_smile: i’d thought i needed more specific keywords but %details-% works fine. however, trying to suppress the status with %details-S_details% removes the summary WYSIWYG.


could i make a request for a Keywords glossary / manual? it would be great to have a full glossary of keywords in a pdf document - only the Standard Page layout keywords are available in the sysadmin manual. finding the news item asset keywords for this same project was kinda tricky (forums.matrix.squiz.net/index.php?showtopic=1874) - it would be very nice to have them all in one document.



(edited for ‘d’oh’ moments and confusion between too many other custom layouts :wink: ).