Create summary page

Developing with Concrete
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I have a vast collection of book catalog pages with serial number, images, text, etc. and QR code.
Now I want to crate a pagelist where I can see (and print) only the serial number and QR code.

I have tried a different page template to just switch and see/print the data but I think that is not the appropriate way. I guess creating a summary page would be the correct way, but I didn’t succeed just using a different page template and adressing the summary page. I did not find a step-by-step documentation.

What would be the best and simplest way to achieve this?
There’s maybe a more simple way.

Thanks for shining light on this problem.

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How are the pages built. Is it just content blocks, or are the serail# and QR codes page attributes?

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Thank you JohntheFish for responding.

Serial # is a Text Attribute and QR code is a HTML Attribute.

This is with an Atomik (emtpy) installation on cms 9.4.1

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You were heading in the right direction with a block template for the page list. You will need a template that can display those attributes.

In the marketplace, some possibilities are:

You will need to check whether they can

  • Show your attributes in their listing instead of the default name/image/description
  • Render the QR code from the HTML attribute.

If not, you will need to code some php and create your own custom block template for the page list.

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Thanks for pointing out possibilities and options. I continue trying to make a custom block template.

I just wonder, if calling in the summary page is mandatory for such use?
$renderer->renderSummaryForObject($page, 'my_page_name_xxx');

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Are you using the boards summary system? You don’t need that complexity. All you actually need is a page list block. There are other examples of page lists in the Atomik sample content, or you could look at the Elemental templates and sample content.

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Still confused about creation of summary template.

Our developer added a dynamic QR code in the summary template (blog_entry_card), reading the current page URL. That works perfect on the pages. For a while It looked as if we had mastered it. But this way, if used in a pagelist, all pages show the QR code of the pagelist URL instead of each page.

There is no way to add another pagelist template using a summary template. It’s not possible. You cannot copy a pagelist template and using it with its own summary template.

To fix it we tried to pull in the QR as a png in a image attribute. We looked through many pagelist and tried simple elemental pagelist templates without success.
There is nowhere an example how to pull in an image or an image attribute.

Any thoughts?
Many thanks in advance.

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In the pagelist template there should be a for loop. More than likely $pages as $page.

within that you can simple pull anything from the page object $page->

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Thank you TMDesigns for the info. We will look into that as a last resort. We are not coders, we simply try to manage Atomik.

It is weird, that Atomik has only two pagelist templates (+default) and they are somehow hardcoded. Impossible to use as another template. Once you change something, all pagelists with either of the templates used are affected.

Since our Atomik-site relies on the preinstalled boards, it would be great to add an additional summary template.

How can this be achieved without changing the looks of pagelists already in use?

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There is actually very little you can do about it.

Build Board Content out of Blocks and Containers Instead of Custom Slot Objects · Issue #11407 · concretecms/concretecms · GitHub this thread is more two years old, closed and without any action or improvements. Boards are still a mystery for common users.

To circumvent the somehow undocumented hardcoded mechanisms of the boards in Atomik, we copied the pagelist template to a new name and modifiy/tweak a registered/hardcoded summary template like: blog_image_left.
That way you can use another template in Atomik.

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Hey that worked. Wow. Thank you so much! I pulled hair by hair…

For the contents of the template I asked You.com and the bot did not answer stingily but immediately delivered a template for immediate use. Perfect.
But what does that say to the forum in general?
It needs a friendly fellow user and some bot help.
Problem solved, where do I click the checkbox “solved by bot”?
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