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Make sure subject exists

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Rushian 0
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Make sure subject exists

How can I make sure the news title exists before posting it?

Yeah, I know I can edit it later, but sometimes I don't notice. Smiling Face

Hopefully a warning message could be displayed and then you'd be returned to the form without losing anything.

Any ideas?

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OP 0
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Make sure subject exists

Could go right along with the news preview function I'd imagine...
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Administrator
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Make sure subject exists

Not without some larger modifications. I will add a title check in the next major relase.
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Make sure subject exists

Ok, that worked. Any way to mod it to warn you BEFORE the item is committed to the database? Smiling Face
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Administrator
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From: Vienna, Austria
Make sure subject exists

Open cadmin/mod_news in an editor and find in function AddNews():

        MkHeader("_self");

        MkTabHeader ("$words[DO]");

        echo $words[SA];

        MkTabFooter();

        MkFooter();

Replace this with:

        MkHeader("_self");

        MkTabHeader ("$words[DO]");

        echo $words[SA];

if (!$newstitle) echo "<br />Warning: News title is missing in this story";

        MkTabFooter();

        MkFooter();

This will add a warning in case that the news title is missing. You still need to edit the news under edit/remove.

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