HowTo overwrite Form.ss template

lhasselb · 30 January 2019 10:12

Silverstripe Version: 4.3

Question: I would like to overwrite the Form.ss template.
Where should it be placed?

I am using $default theme which was added with SS 4.x
See Custom Code Structure where
HTML with *.ss-extension for the $default theme are located within app/templates

The Form.ss template which is used by default is located within

vendor/silverstripe/framework/templates/SilverStripe/Forms/Includes/Form.ss

I tried already to overwrite the template using the following paths:

app/templates/Form.ss
app/templates/SilverStripe/Forms/Includes/Form.ss
app/templates/SilverStripe/Forms/Form.ss
app/templates/Includes/Form.ss

No success yet.

Does anybody know the location to be used to overwrite Form.ss?

addwebsolution · 30 January 2019 10:19

Hi @lhasselb

Try to put in themes/your-themes/ folder.

Hope this will help you.

Thanks!

lhasselb · 30 January 2019 10:25

Thank you for the quick response.
I don’t use a theme here.
See SS4 docs :

By default only $default set is configured, which represents all module roots with a templates directory.

SilverStripe\View\SSViewer:
  themes:
    - '$default'

addwebsolution · 30 January 2019 10:28

Then there is default theme in themes folder that is simple put into themes/simple/templates/ folder.

lhasselb · 30 January 2019 10:35

Thanks again. This will not help because
I don’t use a theme here (on purpose)

SilverStripe\View\SSViewer:
  themes:
    - '$public'
  #  - 'simple'
    - '$default'

So there is no meaning in adding the template to the non-used simple theme.

addwebsolution · 30 January 2019 10:49

Okay, I got your point, then please add that templates (i.e. templates/SilverStripe/Forms/Includes/Form.ss) folder into app/src folder.

Then please do dev/build?flush=all.

This may be help you.

Thanks

addwebsolution · 30 January 2019 10:57

Hey @lhasselb,

I tried this way i overwrite the UserForm.ss file and it works for me can see in this screenshot.

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lhasselb · 30 January 2019 11:23

Thank you again @addwebsolution

as mentioned initially
I tried already
app/templates/Form.ss
app/templates/SilverStripe/Forms/Includes/Form.ss
app/templates/SilverStripe/Forms/Form.ss
app/templates/Includes/Form.ss

But I don’t get the last comment with the screenshot.
You are adding a template file and structure to the src folder which is meant for PHP implementation ?
How is the UserForm related to the Form.ss ?

I am lost…

addwebsolution · 30 January 2019 11:36

@lhasselb I am giving you just example of UserForm.

You tried with app/templates/SilverStripe/Forms/Includes/Form.ss structure, but please try with app/src/templates/SilverStripe/Forms/Includes/Form.ss structure.

And please let me know your view for the same.

lhasselb · 30 January 2019 11:43

I moved
app/templates/SilverStripe/Forms/Includes/Form.ss
to
app/src/templates/SilverStripe/Forms/Includes/Form.ss
Did dev/build?flush=all .

No Success

SilverStripe\View\SSViewer:
  source_file_comments: true

still shows

addwebsolution · 30 January 2019 11:49

Without moving into src folder did you tried dev/build?flush=all ?

lhasselb · 30 January 2019 11:52

I did a dev/build?flush=all after every single change.

For

app/templates/Form.ss
app/templates/SilverStripe/Forms/Includes/Form.ss
app/templates/SilverStripe/Forms/Form.ss
app/templates/Includes/Form.ss

and now for

app/src/templates/SilverStripe/Forms/Includes/Form.ss

No success yet.

addwebsolution · 30 January 2019 11:53

What’s the error you got in error log?

lhasselb · 30 January 2019 11:56

There is no error?

No success yet means: The template is not overwritten.

The default template

is used.
And I want to overwrite that.

JonoM · 30 January 2019 18:10

I would have expected app/templates/SilverStripe/Forms/Includes/Form.ss to work.

You have this line in one of your config files?

SilverStripe\Core\Manifest\ModuleManifest:
  project: app

If this line is set to ‘mysite’ as per the old standard, your project templates probably won’t be mapped correctly.

There’s a page devoted to template inheritance here: https://docs.silverstripe.org/en/4/developer_guides/templates/template_inheritance/ (I find it a bit confusing though)

lhasselb · 31 January 2019 12:09

Thank you for the response.

I have the mentioned line there

SilverStripe\Core\Manifest\ModuleManifest:
  project: app

And I also know the page about template inheritance.

Finally (after 4 hours debugging and manually cleaning the cache)

app/templates/SilverStripe/Forms/Includes/Form.ss

did the Job.