Sorry..beta-cms again

Elements CMS
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I am feeling slightly guilty to mention “CMS”, knowing that it’s beta etc. and my stuff not being really super urgent or earth shaking.

But I guess you released it also to catch early bugs…so here another weird behaviour and perhaps some help to put a link to open a pdf.

  1. Strange behaviour - The “Load More” button is working in local preview, but not on local server (ServBay, MAMP)

  2. (Trying to get a newsletter pdf link to open the pdf. I know (at least I think I do), that markdown doesn’t support this. So I tried html within the *.md file, result is “requested page not found”. Maybe my syntax is wrong or it’s not as simple as I thought - ideally I would like just a button displayed, which would open the pdf in a new window.) - Forget this one..I figured it out !

  3. Question to ‘display order’ of the author team in the About page. Is it possible to adjust the ‘pecking order’ of displayed authors (to avoid hurting egos)??

(elementsapp://downloadDocument/CmLfpP0p0zQX)

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Hi Utz, regarding #2, could you tell me how you did it?

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It was an error in referencing the resource directory..

[June-July Newsletter](../resources/newsletters/news_june_july_2025.pdf) **markdown**

<a href="/../resources/newsletters/news_june_july_2025.pdf" target="_blank">June-July News</a>

**html**

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Thanks so much. Gonna try it now!

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This is a bug! Good news though — we have a fix for this which will be available later today :smiley:

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You can adjust the sorting order via the Filters controls on a Collection component.

Easiest way to order the authors would be to add a date to the author’s markdown file’s frontmatter. Something like:

---
name: Ben
date: 20205-01-01
---

Hope that helps :slight_smile:

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How do I add authors to a collection component? Sorry but it is not obvious to me. I have added a appropriate dates to the .md files. BTW is the date UK format or US format?

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‘collection’ is under cms-components..

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Thank you, I knew where collection was I was putting it in the wrong place!

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Sorry to bother you again, you have been super helpful but I am really struggling to get this to work, no matter where I put the collection in my page layout list it is not working. Could you send me a screen shot of your page layout for the page in the screenshot above. Thank you.

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Ignore this please, all sorted now.