Profile content blank after trying to copy profile template

Hi,

in order not to have to edit the default profile template, I copied the default template, and changed filenames and content of default.php and default.xml. Then I zipped the copied profile and installed it. All seemed fine. Database check showed a duplicate ID which was easily fixed. But now profiles don't show up anymore, neither on the overvie page nor on a details page. Everything else on the page lookes ok and there is no error message (debug maximum). Even the pagination is there on the overview page. So I think profiles load more or less correctly, they are just not displayed.

Did I miss something when copying the profile template? Are there official instructions how to do it right? (I found some unofficial instructions somewhere, but those were obviously wrong ...)

J3.4.3, CB2.0.10 - Pages are private, cannot post a link. But I could send login if necessary.

Thanks,
Ralf.

wdburgdorf wrote: Hi,

in order not to have to edit the default profile template, I copied the default template, and changed filenames and content of default.php and default.xml. Then I zipped the copied profile and installed it. All seemed fine. Database check showed a duplicate ID which was easily fixed. But now profiles don't show up anymore, neither on the overvie page nor on a details page. Everything else on the page lookes ok and there is no error message (debug maximum). Even the pagination is there on the overview page. So I think profiles load more or less correctly, they are just not displayed.

Did I miss something when copying the profile template? Are there official instructions how to do it right? (I found some unofficial instructions somewhere, but those were obviously wrong ...)

J3.4.3, CB2.0.10 - Pages are private, cannot post a link. But I could send login if necessary.

Thanks,
Ralf.

Guessing you did something wrong - as always with blank pages please turn on joomla debuging to see more info on error.

Thanks for your reply nant. The pages are not blank:
"Everything else on the page looks ok and there is no error message (debug maximum)."

Edit the PHP file and ensure you've changed the class names to have the same name as your template. For example if your template is "example" then change CBProfileView_html_default to CBProfileView_html_example. Is there a particular reason you need the PHP file though? It's possible to override just the CSS. This can be done easily with the below override template usage.

www.joomlapolis.com/forum/6-news-and-publicity/227459-cb-203-template-css-overrides

Hi Kyle,

Thank you, it was the class names.
Problem with CSS is that I need to "catch" the elements. Many elements lack specific classes which makes them hard to catch. So I add classes. Another problem is, that I can switch off display of empty fields, but only for both overview and detail pages, not just one of them. I need empty fields in the overview, but not in details. And so on ...

Thanks again!

Don't understand what you mean by catch the elements. Nearly every relevant element in CB has a semantic class in addition to their bootstrap classes. Hiding empty fields in profile edit doesn't make any sense as you won't be able to edit the fields if that's the case, but that is doable with CB Conditional if you really wanted (assuming that's what you meant by detail pages). Each tab and field can also have custom CSS classes add to them using the CSS Class parameter found in their backend edit views.