I wrote a small tool to import K2 content from a CSV file and to export K2 data to a CSV file.
www.individual-it.net/en/Joomla/

Its possible to import all fields including "extra fields", userids, images, tags, galleries, categories and attachments.

The file must have a heading row. Text delimiter: ' " ' field separator: ','
For "Multiple Select" Fields use also "," to separate the options e.g.: "option 1, option 3"

To have a example-file to first an export and check the documentation .

Here is user manual
If you like it please vote for it or write a review

If you have problems:

1. check the old thread in the forum
2. check if you use the most actual version
3. check the minimum requirements
4. post here if you still have a problem - and report:
   • the joomla version
   • the OS version
   • the K2 version
   • the K2 Import / Export tool version
   • the exact problem ("It doesn't work" - doesn't help anybody)

To stay up do date and informed follow me on twitter and have a look at this topic.

thanks!
and how to style the tag view (clicking in a tag in the article)? is the only style I cant change, everything works good but tag view no at all


:blink: standard itemlist is fine! :blink:







Loosing my head :silly:

First off, please don't use offensive titles.

You have 2 options to search K2 content. Either by using Joomla's search options or by using the K2 specific options in mod_k2_tools. You can search everything in K2 with these 2 options.

If you want to be able to search specific categories, you can do so with mod_k2_tools. Read the explanation in the tooltips.

To enable tag searching, see the K2 Search plugin params.

User searching is not available, as it's a complete overkill. If you want searching for that too, however, we got you covered. Just enable Google Ajax Searching in the K2 params.

Firstly I'm an amatuer and relatively new.

I have installed K2 on Joomla 1.5, I have built categories, sub categories and added items with a little content just as working examples.

My problem is : I have added the Catagories and erefore thItems to the Main Menu item manager as specified, however my menu does not appear at all on Preview.

Everything I've done appears on my front page which isn't ideal but probably another thing altogether.

I cannot choose anything or navigate correctly, as there is no menu.

Any ideas where I am going wrong please?

regards Woodston

William White wrote: Try setting the catelog mode to yes in your top category params

What if i don't have a Category item layout? I was searched and searched but no one talk about that. Installation was finished without problems. I work in Joomla about 1.5 years but new on K2, and i really don't know what i need to do.

Joomla 1.7
K2 v2.5.1
Articles are imported from joomla.

I am an amatuer so go easy with me !

I have installed K2 and understand catagories etc. So I have built a little content up. My problem is this: I cannot build menu links to my catagories and items. I try to , but I can't !!!!

When I go to Menu Manager in Joomla it appears to be there, but in Preview.... nothing. Do I have to alter something so that the K2 content appears in the Joomal menu?

Now I dont pretend to be an expert ...so Im hoping someone else is !

I'd be very grateful..and you would become I very nice person immediatley.
Chris
:)

Finally after 2 days of search I am exhausted, I even spent a sleepless night to fix k2 search, but of no use.

used applications:
Joomla 1.7.2
K2 2.5

k2 has wonderful features but frustrating search function.

K2 search cant do the following

- search with tags
-search with categories.
-search with author names

but the irony is it filters them when tags, or authors are clicked.

after trying many components for building content I came to K2
K2 has wonderful features than many other components, but Search in K2 is a complete failure.

Developers may delete my post for this, but thats the reality..

the features that should be the core of K2 is missing. I expect better k2

I am testing a setup with nested categories: so I have a top level category with no articles, used to group a number of sub-categories.

e.g. top-level Continents, sub-categories of Europe, Asia, America, etc.

Items are then created in the sub-categories.

I then added a menu item to view the items in the continents category. This nicely shows the continent category and description, and the sub-category names and descriptions, but then includes a list of all the items in the continent categories below that. I want to hide these item names, so the user would first click on a continent and then see the items for the continent chosen.

How do I do that?

In general I am a bit confused I think about how a nested category situation works with respect to front end navigation. A pity that there is no documentation for K2 and that the videos either don't really help except for specific situations or are too long to watch through!

Hi.

It's not built-in to K2 but if you are able to export the flexicontent in csv format with all the tags/cat etc, then you could use the "K2 Import / Export" extension:
www.individual-it.net/Joomla/View-category.html

Good luck!

@olivierk

it seems tag used in search is working on this site. but I couldnt do it on my site. pls help.

when I use some tag to search in K2 it doesnt display any article.

pls help me if there is a fix.

I installed k2 and and published 3 articles.

2 articles with tags. those 2 articles has common tags like (aircraft, model)

when I click on the tag displayed below the article k2 displays all articles with those tag.

but when I use the same tag in search (k2 search) no result is displayed.

this can be seen here too on getk2.org

getk2.org/extend/extensions/date

go and use some tag to search - displays no result.
but when I click on the tag displayed below the article it displays the article associated with that tag.

Pls help.

We're currently using Joomla 1.5 with Flexicontent. We want to revamp with Joomla 1.7 and would prefer to switch over to K2 for template compatibility and a lot of other small issues that have been bothersome with Flexicontent (has been a problem with our older JoomlaBamboo template and Flexicontent).

How would K2 handle our database? Would it recognize the same tags, categories, etc? Not pros, just amateurs who built a website and don't want to give ourselves a nightmare project.

Hi guys,
first off kudos to a great component. I am new to K2 but its really fast and flexible and I like it a lot. Recently we decided to create a news portal. We made a deal with a news company that gave us access to their feed and we did set everything up. (www.internetovenoviny.sk - its not done yet obviously)

Anyhow.. I am trying to import articles from a XML file. But I dont know where the images go in the database...

seriously can't find it. I looked in the jos_k2_items table via phpmyadmin.
There is only the GALLERY column. But where is the MAIN IMAGE column? Or how does K2 work with the item's images?

I just need to know where should the XML tag - IMAGE go in the database to make it work.

Any help is really appreciated.

I am using the latest K2 with joomla 1.5.23. Thank you!

cause your Bullets don't depend on div.k2ItemsBlock

they depend on

div.itemTagsBlock ul.itemTags li {

list-style: none outside none;

}

Try to use Firebug for questions like this. It is really helpfull.

I also have this issue, when I upload a zip file,the error is

There was a problem rendering your image gallery. Please make sure that the folder you are using in the Simple Image Gallery Pro plugin tags exists and contains valid image files. The plugin could not locate the folder: media/k2/galleries/4

and tried to reference it by {gallery}4{/gallery}

however, the path it actually makes (with the images in) is:
/public_html/media/k2/galleries/4/landscapes

it seems the upload is adding on the name of the zip file to the path when it creates the directory, but tries to reference it using a path without the name of the zip file...


Edit K2 V2.5.1 Joomla 1.7 simple image gallery pro 2.5.6


I can get this to work if i manually move the images and thumbs folder from:
/public_html/media/k2/galleries/4/landscapes
to
/public_html/media/k2/galleries/4

There was a problem rendering your image gallery. Please make sure that the folder you are using in the Simple Image Gallery Pro plugin tags exists and contains valid image files. The plugin could not locate the folder: media/k2/galleries/34

I have looked through the forums and seen similar issues but found no working solution.

Joomla 1.5.24
k2 2.4.1
SIG Pro 2.5.6

I had this same set up working on localhost, and then on a test server, without issue. It was only after I transferred it to my live server that the issue occurred.

Any advice is appreciated.

the zip file contain *.jpg files.
After I modified the class.upload.php file, changing the line:

$this->mime_check = false; // checks the mime type against the allowed list

IN THIS:

$this->mime_check = true; // checks the mime type against the allowed list

I get the error:

There was a problem rendering your image gallery. Please make sure that the folder you are using in the Simple Image Gallery Pro plugin tags exists and contains valid image files. The plugin could not locate the folder: media/k2/galleries/7

If I look in the folder media/k2/galleries/7 I see that it makes another folder inside, where the pictures are. So the error is:

the plugin search the pictures in media/k2/galleries/7 but the pictures are in a subfolder, with the same name like the zip file I uploaded.

Hello,

I paid for this plugin and it don't work.
I read a lot on this forum but nothing works.
First I had this error:

        * UNKNOWNARCHIVETYPE
        * Gallery upload error: Cannot extract archive!

After I changed the file class.upload.php, I get this error:

There was a problem rendering your image gallery. Please make sure that the folder you are using in the Simple Image Gallery Pro plugin tags exists and contains valid image files. The plugin could not locate the folder: media/k2/galleries/7

I'm using Joomla 1.5.23, K2 2.4.1 and the latest SIG plugin.

PLEASE HELP!!!