solved Possible problem with modifing skin templates in ACP?

Bear with me if I'm doing something wrong (I'm new w/ Jamroom).

Yesterday, I asked about turning off the "Influences:" where it shows in the slider carousel on the home page of Media Pro Light skin (I incorrectly posted this question under the comments about the Media Pro skin).

Paul correctly told be to "Remove or comment out line 20 of the index_slider.tpl file".

I was attempting to do this under the ACP < Skins < Templates

Everytime I saved changes and clicked compare, it looked as though the removed info on "line 20" was gone compared to the original code.

What I wanted removed from the skin was still there (where it said "Influences:") and I couldn't figure out why it wasn't working.

I then went into my cPanel, brought up the file & discovered that line 20 was still there in the index_slider.tpl (it stilled looked as though it was modified in the ACP).

I removed line 20 of the index_slider.tpl in the cPanel and the change that I wanted happened immediately.

I'm guessing the the code says there in the actual file (cPanel) to be able to revert to it from the ACP.

What am I doing wrong in the ACP to not make the changes happen there?




updated by @andyf: 02/05/15 05:13:04PM

Your assumption that the original file doesn't change is correct. Edited templates are saved on the database and subsequently pulled from there.
Did you enable the edited template? Click on the templates tab and tick the checkbox.
Also, make sure you are in 'developer mode' (ACP-Tools-Developer-Global) so that caching is disabled and changes so immediately.
Hth
Pa


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That's exactly what I was doing wrong! I wasn't enabling the edited template by clicking on the templates tab and clicking the checkbox & saving.

Thanks Paul (I knew it had to be something simple)!

That little checkbox gets us every time...dang!


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