Custom Fields Output

Hi there.
Im'm new to G2 and I'm trying to show data from the custom fields I've created: 'Year', 'Medium' and 'Size' but it just doesn't output anything.
I followed this tutorial

http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery2:How_to_display_custom_fields_next_to_thumbnail

and pasted this code next to my thumbnails in album.tpl. I'm using Siriux template.

{* Use the customfield.LoadCustomFields callback to get an array of fields *}
{g->callback type="customfield.LoadCustomFields" itemId=$child.id}
{if !empty($block.customfield.LoadCustomFields.fields.Item)}
<ul>
{foreach from=$block.customfield.LoadCustomFields.fields item=customField}
<li>{$customField}</li>
{/foreach}
</ul>
{/if}

Can anyoine help me? Thanks

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ricardo m

Dave,

Using the forum guidance, I have been able to cancel out the existing Owner and Date on photo.tpl (due to their limitations) and I have successfully added Custom Fields Owner and Date. However, this information shows up under the photo Comments and is not readily apparent to the viewer.

Is there coding that I can add to photo.tpl so that these custom fields (without the title Custom Fields) shows up under the description (where the Date and Owner fields were originally located)? I would appreciate your help.

Dave Freeman

Dave -

Thanks for the timely reply. Your guidance allowed me to get rid of the title "Custom Fields" and move my custom fields (Date and Owner) above any "Recent Comments" that might be on the photo page. However, rather than residing underneath the photo, I would like to position these custom fields to the right of the photo underneath any description text that might be there. This will make these custom fields more obvious to the viewer.

I assume this means some recoding of one of the files - possibly the photo.tpl file. I have reviewed the forum questions on Custom Fields and most responses relating to repositioning the fields on the photo page aren't sufficiently precise for me to understand what needs to be done. That's the guidance I need. What file needs changing and what coding in that file needs changing? Again, I really appreciate your helping this newbie.

Dave Freeman

glad you got it sorted.
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Please help, I am using the Matrix theme.

Okay, so I am running Gallery 2 and am using a modified version of the Ebony template.

What I need to be able to do is display the "Custom Field" under each of the photo thumbnails on the album page. I have tried pasting your example code in various pages on the "album.tpl" file with no luck. The closest I got was pasting it into the template specific "modules/core/templates/blocks/local/iteminfo.tpl". Adding it into that file actually placed the item-specific Custom Field code under each of the items, but it didn't strip out the link code that I have in each of them (which works fine in the photo view). I would think displaying this in the Album view would be no problem considering I got it to display in the photo view with the build-in functionality of Gallery2 without modifying code.

Any suggestions would be appreciated, and let me know if you need more info.

Thanks for getting back to me. I tried adding that to the album.tpl file in the place you indicated and nothing happened. Is it possible that the theme is ignoring this file or do different templates reference things differently? You'd think that it would be a universal application across the board. Any other suggestions?

Just tried clearing the template cache and still no go. I do have data in the custom fields, as they display fine in the photo view. Anything else?

Kyle

http://fuseboxgraphics.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=61

The "websites" section is the only album I want to use the custom fields for, to display the URL to each live site below each thumbnail, instead of having to go into each item to get to it.

Alright, I changed templates and I am seeing an error where I added the code/test text - both with the same results. This is the error:

[Translation error: Array ( [one] => (%d item total) [many] => (%d items total) [count] => [arg1] => ) ]

I left the Matrix theme applied if it helps. I appreciate all your help.

Added the text with no extra code and still nothing even after emptying the cache again.

Okay, so I actually added the code to the Matrix themed album.tpl and that added the custom info to the album page, but it is not turning the code into links like on the individual photo pages. Is there a way to modify the code to have it convert it?

Yes, I got it working in the matrix template, but not the ebony template that I use. There is also the matter of the link code not hyperlinking within the album view (which if I can't get to work properly, then showing the custom field on the album page is useless for my purposes). Any ideas?

Eureka, I've figured it out! This other board topic walked me through what else needed to be added to the code mentioned above to make it parse the hyperlinks properly: http://gallery.menalto.com/node/51080

For my uses with the Ebony theme, I had to add the code to the following: "modules/core/templates/blocks/local/iteminfo.tpl"

The modified code that I had to use is: (I stripped out the list item code, which I didn't need)

{g->callback type="customfield.LoadCustomFields" itemId=$child.id}
{foreach from=$block.customfield.LoadCustomFields.fields|markup item=customField}
{$customField}
{/foreach}

The BBcode that I was already using for my links in the Custom Fields now displays correctly in both the photo view (as it had before) AND on the album view. It is all thanks to the simple change of adding "|markup". I hope this helps other people as much as it did for me.