I'm trying to improve upon a custom rotating image carousel I inherited. Currently the items within the carousel are limited to entries categorized with a specific category from specific blogs. Its proven quite limiting and have frequently found myself hacking custom items into the list. (I can post code if necessary)
I've been playing around with adding a system wide custom single-line-text value, that can be used to identify and order any type of entry - article, blog, photo from a gallery). I've figured out the new template code (which I can post if requested) ,however, I am getting a bizarre publishing error:
"Publish error in template 'DL': Error in tag: Error in tag: Invalid tag entrydatadl_carousel specified."
What is bizarre is this only occurs if you publish the entire blog containing this custom template. If you publish the single file, it works fine. Has anyone experienced something like this before?
Reported on Movable Type 4.25
Sorry for asking the dumb question, but does the custom field "entrydatadl_carousel" actually exist? Is that the system-wide custom text value you mention?
Of course... As I said, it works fine when publishing the single file, just not the blog as a whole. This is where the problem exists, as our load-balanced sync process is tied to entry and blog publishing.
Let me reason this out at length, in case I'm still missing something. I'm afraid your details are a little brief. Bear with me.
When you save your single file, your custom template, you're not publishing it. Just saving it.
When you use the Publish command, you have the option to publish All Files, Only Indexes, etc ... but not just that one template. Because, of course, publishing pushes out the static output, not the template itself.
So I think that's why you're seeing this error only when publishing the entire blog.
So can you please post a block of code that contains this entrydatadl_carousel tag? And just in case, double-check the custom field's Template Tag box to make sure it exactly matches that name?
Sorry if that seems pedantic, but it'll help look into this.
Meh, having revisited an archive template today, I take back what I said -- yeah, you can edit the archive template and publish, but you're still publishing any static file that used that template.