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Outstanding Deane - Next time I need this functionality I'll give it a try.

For my next trick, I want MT to use different "edit_entry" templates for each blog, so that you can customize the editing interface -- label the fields differently, have different form elements, etc.

For instance, you could have a blog for an event calendar, and have fields for "recorrance," "start time," "end time," etc. Instead of the user having to remember want info gets hacked into what field, you could present them with a customized editor.

Why didn't I see this post earlier? I could kiss you on the lips for this one.

I've been thinking, if I could just add 2 fields, I could take the "web links" portion of blogs4God and move it entirely into MovableType.

It's official, you've been blogged: http://www.healyourchurchwebsite.com/archives/001073.shtml

I just did an install with no less than six user-defined fields: one for key/value information, and five for whatever. It seems to work perfectly.

Thanks for the great hack! It is very well described and even feaseable for a "faint of heart" as me.

An addition: If you want to use the public search module built in MovableType (I use 2.661) you just need to extend a single line in

/lib/MT/App/Search.pm

Around line 440 you'll find the subroutine sub searchhit

Just add your new field like this:

@textelements = ($entry->title, $entry->text, $entry->textmore, $entry->keywords, $entry->user1);

and you are done.

Hi,

this hack doesn't seem to work with version 3.11. Was anyone of you able to do the same thing in v3.11?

The main problem I'm having in MT v.3.* is that the template file no longer uses tables, instead it uses CSS for everything. I'm sure this is still a feasable hack but it's going to take someone a lot smarter than me to figure it out.

Ah I figured it out!

I added a post on how to add an extra field (including changing some other back-end display options and taking into account your new field in the export function) on my site (see Category MovableType) in Dutch. I'm planning on translating the post to English as well, but in the mean time:

If anyone needs any help on this in any other language then just let me know (not here, but on my own site...)!

Hi :) just used that and some other stuff i developed to build some avatar stuff on my site's comments system :))

thanks! if you want to know what i did contact me on morroida at gmail :)

You are a hero! This works excellent and very easy to do.

This hack is great, and makes MT more of an all purpose CMS. I wish it didn't prevent upgrading MT's version though.

Thanks for these instructions. I implemented them with 2.66 but soon enough it got to be a pain to upload my saved tmpl files all the time.

I think I will settle for Brad Choate's KeyValue plugin, even if it is a little less 'elegant' because I don't need to "upgrade" every upgrade. This is a personal choice but for people who would rather not bother tweaking code everytime, it is worthy of consideration.

Hi, Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, I am looking for native support of this feature since I am running under the BerkleyDB, not MySql. But, thanks again for sharing this with me. I'll bookmark it and maybe I will switch to MySql in the near future so this will work.

Hey thanks for this - got the bank end working fine - but when i try to build the site, i get

Undefined subroutine &MT::Template::Context::hdlrentry_location called at lib/MT/Builder.pm line 159. any ideas?

line 59 is : my $out = $h->($ctx, \%args, $cond);

thanks!

Found the problem! Is was the space between sub and hdlrentry_user1 {

sub hdlrentry_user1 {

should be

subhdlrentry_user1 {

thanks!

Ok, I'm stuck now!

It's all working in the backend

I've got nice fat tags in my individual template like

But nothing appears!

Any ideas?

fixed it - stoopid typo in context.pm - sorry!

Hi, thanks for the tip! I have a question I'm hoping someone can answer. I added a new field that holds an integer, and everything worked great. So I tried adding a second field the exact same way as the first (only difference is that it holds a varchar(40) data type in the mysql db). However, whenever I reference my other tag, I get the following error:

"Building results failed: Error in tag: Error in tag: You used an 'MTEntryBoxShot' tag outside of the context of an entry; perhaps you mistakenly placed it outside of an 'MTEntries' container?"

Again, I followed the instructions exactly the same in both cases, but for some reason, the second on I added wants to be inside an tag. Any ideas?

Nevermind, I figured out my problem :)

Thanks again for such a well written tutorial, this was a life-saver for me on a project I'm working on right now.