Hi I a have critical problem with the K2 extra fields and the Joomla v 3.8.7 and K2 v 2.8.0 .

I have the 'Extra fields' tab on edit form disabled for frontend editing, however when I edit a K2 item from the frontend then the whole content of the K2 extra fields is deleted. I noticed that this is happening only after the last update to Joomla 3.8.7.

Notice that when the 'Extra fields' tab on edit form is enabled for frontend editing then the content of the K2 extra fields remains after frontend editing on a K2 item.

Thank you in advance for any assistance!

Hello Greg,

Can you backup and install the 2.8.1 DEV version?

Thank you for the response! I tried with no luck the current K2 version 2.8.1 available from Github (please provide me with the right link in case I have downloaded it from the wrong source). I suppose that an additional check is needed (if content exists or not in k2 item extra fields) when the frontend editing is disabled for extra fields, so as to prohibit to write empty values back to db.

Are you by any chances using overrides for the itemform.php file?

Hi Krikor thak you for the interest!
I am using a template override for K2, however in itemform.php I have not changed something, it contains only the following:
require_once(JPATH_SITE.'/administrator/components/com_k2/views/item/tmpl/default.php');

Also before posting I have tried with no luck the following:

1) I removed the override so as to check if it is responsible for the problem.
2) I tried a fresh installation of last Joomla with both the K2 2.8.0 and the dev version from Github.
3) I checked if the issue might be caused from the editor, however the result is the same with both the built in editors and JCE.

We are working on a fix, you can bookmark our repo in order to stay up to date.
github.com/getk2/k2

Also, thank you for reporting this. Feedback is invaluable to us

Thank you!

You 're welcome Greg :)

Hi, is there any progress to this problem? I have already tried all the updates of the project but with no luck.

Hi Fotis, thank you for your interest. To be more clear, I have some K2 items with content in their extra fields and the Front End editing only for the extra fields is disabled. When I open a K2 item for Front End editing and I make and save some changes (e.g. in the introtext or fulltext), then ONLY the content of the extra fields is deleted.

I assume that the Front End editing of the extra fields is not being checked during the update and thus null values are passed for the extra fields of the K2 items.

The title of the topic may be misleading, so to help others it may be changed to "The content of K2 Extra Fields is deleted after frontend editing of K2 item".

Thank you!

Thank you very much for your efforts! I am looking forward for the fix.

Thank you very much for the support!