I wanted to setup a base template for our product pages.  Ive done this in as much as I have the 3 HTML modules I want on the page, its then up to the creator to fill in the 3 modules.  The first module, however, will always have the same basic content: a product image.  Is there a way to have this product image automatically filled in, based on the tab name?  (i.e. the tab named ProductA with automatically show ProductA.gif in the first HTML module)

Ive exported a completed product page as a template "with content", but I dont know how to go into the template and replace the image names so they work dynamically.

Is it even possible?

Thanks in advance.
-Chris

If you are going to place the image in a Text/HTML module, you can use the token replacement feature of the module to generate a filename from the tab name.

You could do something like this:

< img src="[Portal:HomeDirectory]/Images/[Tab:TabName].gif" /img >

Then if you named the images as TabName.gif, with TabName being replaced by the name of the tab, that probably would work.

The .template file I created was "with content".  Everything in content came over in a CDATA tag.  Do I put this line inside the CDATA tag? I assume I do, and Ive tried it but new pages based on the template do not carry over the image (the content is just completely empty, not like it has a broken image link)

When you create a template, there are two files.  There is a .template file and there is also a .template.resources file.

Have you seen: How to create Page Templates in DotNetNuke?

I have to get my job to hook me up with a sub so I can watch the videos.  Now looks like a good time to lean on them.

FWIW, I dont see a .template.resources file.  Does it need to be manually created?  This template was created via the Export Page feature.

If you exported with content, I thought that there should be two files.

The content is listed in a tag in the template itself.

Example:
<!--[CDATA[With the M8600 Folder/Inserter![CDATA[]]-->]]>

EDIT: well that didnt come thru right, how about this:

< content type="DNNHTML" version="04.08.01" >  content goes here, surrounded by CDATA tags<!--[CDATA[With the M8600 Folder/Inserter
-->

Yes.

Only one template.

The HTML content is encoded and in the CDATA structure.  This should not be a problem.

If the content of the module includes replaceable tokens, those will be added to the module when you create a new page with this template.  When the page is rendered, you will see the replaced content, not the tokens.  That is, assuming that you have enabled replacable content for the module.  I believe that I saw a posting that said the setting is not exported, so you will have to set it manually.