Text only version

Squiz Matrix Support
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Hi I’m trying to setup a text only version of a site. I have created both ‘graphic’ and ‘text_only’ designs and would like the ability to select between these on the page, by incorporating something like…

    Graphic Site | Text Only View


The design doesn’t change it refreshes and remains the ‘graphic’ version which is the design that was applied to the site via the settings. Any suggestions or help on how to achieve this would be greatly appreciated.
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Have you created another design for your site called "text_only"? On the settings screen there is a user defined design section. You need to create a new one called text_only and apply the design you want. Then that link will work.

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I currently have 3 designs, a ‘graphic’ version, a ‘text_only’ version and a ‘print_friendly’ version. At the moment the site has the graphic design applied to it with the ‘print_friendly’ version already applied via the 'user defined design section you mentioned. I’m trying to achive the same functionality of the http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/ website regarding the text and graphic versions however still require the print friendly option. Any suggestions would be most helpful.

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You need to add another user defined design called text_only and apply the design to that. Then the links will work in the same way as printer friendly.

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Thanks for your fast reply! Everything is very close to working. :slight_smile: I'm having problems switching back to and holding the graphic version. What is the 'design code' for the 'system defined front end'? At the moment the design changes to the correct 'text_only' version however I’m not sure how to link back to the full design (which is the system defined front end design). Do I need to create another 'user defined design' in order to achieve this?

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    Graphic Site

This clears any user defined design set like the above, and returns the default design to the system defined frontend design.

Hope this helps :)
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Perfect! Thanks for all your help! :smiley: Just out of curiosity how do you remove/delete user defined designs?

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Similar to how you unset the system defined design; you hit 'Clear' on the asset finder for that design type and commit. If there's nothing to inherit for that user defined design from a parent asset, it should be removed from the screen.

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Thanks for all the above information, I've had success in getting the a print version and then switch back to full version to work in v3.10.3.


What I am struggling with is getting styles to apply to the print version. I'm using an external stylesheet applied via a customisation. I have this working successfully on other designs, but for an unknown reason it won't work on the print version design - anything anyone know of why this doesn't work, or even better a work around? - (I guess I could include the styles on the page, but I'd rather stick to external stylesheets if possible)

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[quote]What I am struggling with is getting styles to apply to the print version. I’m using an external stylesheet applied via a customisation.
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Make sure you’re applying the customisation as the User Defined design, and not the parent design itself.

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[quote]Make sure you’re applying the customisation as the User Defined design, and not the parent design itself.
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Thanks, I had already applied it as the User Defined Design, but applied it again and it worked this time… all i can think of is that I may have used the wrong customization or something last time :stuck_out_tongue: