In MT's backend I'd like to show the post's author name (that would be useful for us since we have more than a dozen authors on our collablog), but the code below doesn't behave as I thought it would:



This fetches my author name and ID, not that post's author name/ID. It's probably a problem of context, but I don't know PERL at all, so any help is appreciated.

The only place that I know that it shows the author's name is in the List Entries (list_entries.tmpl) section, and then the Power Edit screen, which is based on the same template. But that appears to be in a loop for the entries, so I'm not sure how to capture that variable one entry at a time. The context that you are trying to grab it is where you edit a single post, correct? Then because the logonav.tmpl has TMPL_VAR NAME=AUTHOR_NAME for the name that is logged in on the very top logo bar, that's probably the conflict.

Sorry I don't know more of how to help! But maybe those ideas will bump you in the right direction.

Kristine

Yes, that's correct.


Now that you mention it, that seems a reasonable assumption. Thanks for your answer, I guess we'll have to live without that tweak!

This is a good one for the "requested features list" if it isn't already there. For multi-author blogs, it would be very handy to be able to see and edit the author while looking at the post instead of having to go into Power Edit mode.