Mismatched Authors When a News item is created
Hello all, quick question. Whenever I create a news item, and add the authors name in the "Author" field under "Additional info" lets say, Tom Jones, it displays correctly on the News feed list. However when you click to read the whole news article, the authors name is incorrect. Instead of it being Tom Jones, it is the user-name of the person that created the News item from the sitefinity backend. How do I make it so that both pages show the correct Author, in this case Tom Jones, instead of "User-name."
Thanks!
Hello Jeff,
As you properly pointed out, by default we are displaying the content item Owner (that is the Sitefinity user who created the article), however you can easily change this to display the value in your Author field by editing the widget template you are using (either from Design->Widget templates and choose the desired template or by editing the widget and the corresponding template.In the template look for the line saying:
<sf:PersonProfileView runat="server" /><sitefinity:TextField runat="server" DisplayMode="Read" Value='<%# Eval("Author")%>' />Hello and thank you for responding. However, I do not see any mention of the line of code you have said to replace. Below is a copy of my template. I already have the author field in the template, but as I had stated previously, when I bring up the full story, it is still displaying the name of the content creator, but not the name of the Author that was eneterd into the Author field.
<sitefinity:TextField runat="server" DisplayMode="Read" Value='<%# Eval("Author")%>' /><%@ Control Language="C#" %><%@ Register TagPrefix="sf" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.ContentUI" Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" %><%@ Register TagPrefix="sf" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.Comments" Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" %><%@ Register TagPrefix="sf" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI" Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" %><%@ Register TagPrefix="telerik" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" %><%@ Register TagPrefix="sf" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.PublicControls.BrowseAndEdit" Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" %><telerik:RadListView ID="NewsList" ItemPlaceholderID="ItemsContainer" runat="server" EnableEmbeddedSkins="false" EnableEmbeddedBaseStylesheet="false"> <LayoutTemplate> <sf:ContentBrowseAndEditToolbar ID="MainBrowseAndEditToolbar" runat="server" Mode="Add"></sf:ContentBrowseAndEditToolbar> <ul class="sfnewsList sfnewsListTitleDateSummary"> <asp:PlaceHolder ID="ItemsContainer" runat="server" /> </ul> </LayoutTemplate> <ItemTemplate> <li class="sfnewsListItem"> <h2 class="sfnewsTitle"> <sf:DetailsViewHyperLink ID="DetailsViewHyperLink1" TextDataField="Title" ToolTipDataField="Description" runat="server" /> </h2> <sitefinity:TextField runat="server" DisplayMode="Read" Value='<%# Eval("Author")%>' /> <div class="sfnewsMetaInfo"> <sf:FieldListView ID="PublicationDate" runat="server" Format="PublicationDate.ToLocal():MMM dd, yyyy" /> </div> <sf:FieldListView ID="summary" runat="server" Text="0" Properties="Summary" WrapperTagName="div" WrapperTagCssClass="sfnewsSummary" /> <sf:DetailsViewHyperLink ID="FullStory" Text="Full story" runat="server" CssClass="sfnewsFullStory" /> <sf:ContentBrowseAndEditToolbar ID="BrowseAndEditToolbar" runat="server" Mode="Edit,Delete,Unpublish"></sf:ContentBrowseAndEditToolbar> </li> </ItemTemplate></telerik:RadListView><sf:Pager id="pager" runat="server"></sf:Pager>Hi Jeff,
You seem to be editing the ListView template, please edit the SingleItem template.
Kind regards,
Boyan Barnev
the Telerik team
Duh! My goodness, didn't even realize I was continually trying to only make edits to that one template. Thanks so much for the help!