Hi Claire,

1 - can you just confirm if you are using MetaTemplate, or MetaTemplate Pro?
2 - at the beginning you say "it works perfectly" but then you describe that it doesn't work. What part of it does work, so far?

Thanks,
Stephen

ok set up 4 MetaTemplate rules.

In the 1st, use this rule, then use the dropdown in the SUCCEED action to set the Home template. I guess you mean "Home" as in "the front page of your site, using the standard Joomla front page component".

if ( $core_genius->check("pagetype = frontpage") ) return true;

if you meant "the front page of virtuemart", use this rule instead:

$vm = JomGenius("virtuemart");
if ( $vm->check("pagetype = frontpage") ) return true;


In the 2nd, use this rule, then use the dropdown in the SUCCEED action to set the Store template:

if ( $option == "com_virtuemart" ) return true;


For the 3rd and 4th rules, they depend on what kind of pages the "company" and "contact" pages are. Are they articles? Is the Contact page a standard com_contact page? If you're not using SEF URLs, can you send the raw URLs for these 2 pages?

Best regards,
Stephen

claire33 wrote:

New rules
Title:  "Home"
SUCCEED Actions
Set Template : beez
Site default menu Item: Home
Run PHP: return "beez";

Ok, there's the problem. If you want to target the front page of the site, don't use "site default menu item" in the Succeed action. That's not what the "default menu item" is all about.

Since you have MetaTemplate Pro, you should use the "Page type" selector (in the left column), or the Menu Item selector to select the front page of your site.

Also, in the "Available Templates", the radio button is a shortcut for setting the default template for the entire site. You may want to have this set to your basic site template (whatever that is), then just use the rules to set special templates for specific pages.

Hope that helps,
Stephen

Oops, sorry, I don't know why I thought you were using MetaTemplate Pro...
So yes, if you want to purchase it (on this site) then you'll get all those extra options, and it's easy to set up.

If you are comfortable with some PHP, then you can instead used the rules that are in message [4] in this thread. That gives you some possibilities for the frontpage, and for all Virtuemart pages. But you never described what type of pages the other two are (contact page and company page). Are they articles? Or com_contact and an article? The exact PHP used to detect these is going to depend on what kind of pages they are.

For a reasonable price, MetaTemplate Pro will make it a lot easier to set these up, but we can go on discussing the free PHP version if you like :-)

Best regards,
Stephen

Hello

Is it possible to do this:
First step order (virtuemart) --> Store template
Second step order (virtuemart) --> Store template
Third step order (virtuemart) --> Store template
Fourth step order (virtuemart) --> Store template

For the moment i have this:

First step order (virtuemart) --> Store template
Second step order (virtuemart) --> home template

I can't go to the third step after the second because i'm on the home template.