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As briefly presented in our Designing for Magento Webinar last week, Magento’s next release will feature a new tool that will make Magento designers’ and programmers’ lives easier; Template Path Hints. This tool will display the path and file name of the templates constructing the page viewed.

We hope you’ll like it smile

]]> Behind the Scenes 2008-01-24T02:51:00-08:00 Comment by jlaha {url_as_title} GREAT idea.  The white text on red background, with that font size is a little tough to read however.  I’m guessing this can be modified in the CSS file that handles this styles for these hints.

]]> 2008-05-10 T;07:19:00-08:00 Comment by peach {url_as_title} awesome, I so need this tool!

]]> 2008-05-10 T;07:19:00-08:00 Comment by Josue4ever {url_as_title} Well it looks good very helpfull for newbies and xperts. Well, I have to ask this… When is spected a newer version? because some people couldnt install 7.148

GOGOGO MAGENTO (1 go more)

]]> 2008-05-10 T;07:19:00-08:00 Comment by iguru {url_as_title} super!

]]> 2008-05-10 T;07:19:00-08:00 Comment by Otaugames {url_as_title} Thank you ! Designing is going to be a bit faster as we won’t have to search anymore for a file.

]]> 2008-05-10 T;07:19:00-08:00 Comment by Greg {url_as_title} Will the next release be provided via the update tool ala the install in 0.7.148?

]]> 2008-05-10 T;07:19:00-08:00 Comment by NickL {url_as_title} GO GO MAGENTO!

I’m glad you all got this in there, it beats out having to use the old php insert method and will definitely speed up designing templates. I look forward to playing with it!

Good job Folks!

]]> 2008-05-10 T;07:19:00-08:00 Comment by tzCart {url_as_title} What is it that is providing this functionality, CSS and property hidden?
It’s a great feature need more details, I need to catch that webinar soon.
Another great feature would be to be able to right click an area or product and be able to edit the details (for site admins) right in the layout. Does Magento do that, some CMS’s can do that if not natively, then by using a plugin extra goodie.
The design hints is just brilliant, and will help get up-to-speed, with much less of a learning curve.
Mage -N-Toe

]]> 2008-05-10 T;07:19:00-08:00 Comment by Web_Addict {url_as_title} very nice ... this will really help us and save time !!

Go go magento

]]> 2008-05-10 T;07:19:00-08:00 Comment by Loïc {url_as_title} GREAT ! It was really important to have this released !
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]]> 2008-05-10 T;07:19:00-08:00 Comment by jfbonham {url_as_title} Excellent feature, really great. grin

Presumably it’s easy to see the full path by clicking on it or selecting the path text - in some cases such as the currency box in the above screenshot, the box is narrower than the path.

Looking forward to using it as it should be quite a time saver. Reminds me of the Inspect tool on Firebug.

]]> 2008-05-10 T;07:19:00-08:00 Comment by WisdOMbooks {url_as_title} This is real a GREAT tool,
even for non-programmers
who are thus spoon-fed
into easily reaching specific codes.

(Drupal apart) I don’t know
of any other ecommerce system
having such a nice facility.

BEST COMPLIMENTs
to the whole team!

]]> 2008-05-10 T;07:19:00-08:00 Comment by Rowan {url_as_title} This reminds me of one of the new Drupal theming modules (http://drupal.org/project/devel), it’s nice to see that great minds do think alike. wink

]]> 2008-05-10 T;07:19:00-08:00 Comment by kadima {url_as_title} Thanks

]]> 2008-05-10 T;07:19:00-08:00 Comment by Travis {url_as_title} This’ll help BIG TIME.  Can’t wait for the next release.

]]> 2008-05-10 T;07:19:00-08:00 Comment by DavePit.com {url_as_title} I noticed this in the Webinar, a genius feature that will surely make things easier on me grin

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