Template Overrides for emails not working
By Chris on Wednesday, 17 May 2017
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I'm constantly making some changes to the email templates in order to show the Category and the cover pic in the email.

The email template override wasn't working , it creates the file, but it doesn't use it.

This is how I modded it to look
http://i.imgur.com/hhmLfmx.png

You'll notice Category with link above the title and a cover image with link to blog as well.

I think it would be good to have those standard, (or as an option) but until then could you fix the template overrides.

Thanks
The reason why we updated these email template file in last update is because some of the mobile device and desktop email client not display responsive very well, so our designer found out one of the standard HTML structure in order to support all those responsive issue, then we decide to made this changes.

I believe we will not add much changes regarding this email template file in next release update.
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 19 May 2017 11:59
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Hello Chris,

Which file are you modifying and where did you place the overrides? Ideally you should edit the e-mail template file from EasyBlog's back end e-mail template editor.
Mark
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Wednesday, 17 May 2017 23:59
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Hi Mark, I am using the backend to do the override.


It says :
Flie Location:
/home/kal/public_html/components/com_easyblog/themes/wireframe/emails/html/post.new.php

Overide Location:
/home/kal/public_html/templates/yootheme/html/com_easyblog/emails/post.new.php

It doesn't work from there.

Thanks
Chris
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Thursday, 18 May 2017 07:31
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You should override in this file path :
/home/kal/public_html/templates/yootheme/html/com_easyblog/emails/html/post.new.php
Arlex Wong
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Thursday, 18 May 2017 13:48
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Im not choosing that location, the backend override is putting it there.

So there is something wrong with the UI / interface.
Chris
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Thursday, 18 May 2017 13:51
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It seems like I can replicate this if create email override file from backend.

I've applied some fix in this file -> JoomlaFolder/administrator/components/com_easyblog/models/spools.php

It should store that override email file into this path.

/home/kal/public_html/templates/yootheme/html/com_easyblog/emails/html/post.new.php
Arlex Wong
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Thursday, 18 May 2017 16:09
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Thanks. Please also take into account my suggestions regarding the category and cover pic.
Chris
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Thursday, 18 May 2017 17:21
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Perhaps you can share with me with your customised file so we can take a look why it didn't work.
Arlex Wong
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Thursday, 18 May 2017 17:28
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My file works, its just that your default post notifcation does not list the category or include a cover pic.

I adjust it to include those, it would be good if they were included by default.

I have it live on my site, but its not anything broken for this, just a suggestion so i dont need to edit it every time there is a new version.

Thanks
Chris
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Thursday, 18 May 2017 17:32
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Oh, thanks for your suggestion, I will discuss this with our developer regarding this, it would be best if you can submit a request in our forum page here : https://stackideas.com/forums/easyblog/feature-requests

I have it live on my site, but its not anything broken for this, just a suggestion so i dont need to edit it every time there is a new version.

Actually you do not need to update every time when you update to newest version of easyblog, because it already stored in your current template override directory location, unless you switch to use another new template.
Arlex Wong
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Thursday, 18 May 2017 18:58
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Hi , I understand that the override would save it, but then i would need template.php and post.new.php and then all the other emails are based off template.php so they would be broken too.

Easyblog is changing so often at the moment (Massive Email changes between this version and last), that i would be using such an old version if I don't update each time.
Chris
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Thursday, 18 May 2017 19:01
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