'header_highlighter' div does not show up in Module Manager

Hi, so I'm working on taking the Imageshow and Highlighter modules and layout from the Corporate 2.0 template and adding these to Postnote instead. So far, it all works well (see: www.changingplanet.com/test/).

However, with the Highlighter extension I'm stumbling across one small issue. I've copied the /templates/gk_corporate2/layouts/blocks/header.php file (see attached) into my Postnote template in order to ensure that the CSS and everything works perfectly for the Gavick modules. This worked like a charm for Imageshow, but now that I've installed the Highlighter module I want to place it - like is the case with the corporate 2.0 - template in a 'header_highlighter' div.

The issue is, although this div is specified in the 'header.php' block, when I edit the settings for Highlighter in the module manager, I cannot select 'header_highlighter' as a position. It simply isn't in the dropdown list.

I'm very new to the T3 framework, and although I've read all the documentation I could find I'm still learning about it. Should I declare the 'header_highlighter' div in another file in order for the system to pick it up?

Hi! In order to choose a module position in the back end for a module created in one of the layout.php files, it should also be added to the templateDetails.xml file in the root of your template. If all is well, you created a module in the header position looking something like this

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<?php if( $this->countModules('header_highlighter')) : ?>
<div id="header_highlighter" class="clear clearfix">
      <jdoc:include type="modules" name="header_highlighter" style="gavickpro" />
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

After that, you should also add the following to the templateDetails.xml file under 'positions'

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<position>header_highlighter</position>

That works, thank you! I didn't declare the position under templateDetails.xml as I got a bit confused I guess, the documentation on T3 I've been reading (on Wikipedia) has a different file structure than what Gavick is using, so I'm not sure if you guys have amended the official structure or if I was looking at outdated help files. In any case, the structure that Gavick uses is neater and makes more sense to me.