i have been using K2 for a intranet&extra solution, and here is some experiences I want to share, and maybe some of you have solutions on my negative experiences...Pro> - categories, access levels is great, this is what joomla should had, and get in 1.6- user modules and presentations, the content as items, with attachements, videos etc is very good.- categorys item presentation configuration, very nice and neat for us who want to controll every single pixel of the output..- control users contribution of content in levels and categories.- search in content, and tagging.- K2 virtuemart bridge K2mart . fantastic. Con>- the search wont show me tags.- no option to deselect the  Show items for user, when listing one.-the module position assignment is not good, if I assign a module slideshow to  a menu item, the module pops up in many other  views of that Category. I tried to solve that with Mod on any page but it does not work into K2 hierarcy.- Im using a menu item pointing to a main category as a joomla start page (default start page) that doesnt work if I closee verything else  for access for non-registered users. And I have to. exept  login and info article.   So I need to hide the Main menu item I use as frontpage in a child item of main menu, and redirect users to my really wanted front page on log in. That works fine, but the Home menu item pops up as a dropdown item on my menu on hoover. im gonna think about how to hide it with a CSS or so, while I drinking a few cans of beer.- K2mart . listing of items on a frontpage, I guess I have same problem with startpage as I already described. Im about to work on that too.

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I want this K2 to be my main content driver for sites. but then I need it to be intergtated better in joomla index, search in tags too and some other issues to be solved. I hope you guys sort that out over the nex .. month ??  I gladly pay bucks for it.. sshh..! thanks for a great tool. Please create more Menu item selection features too. I can not show the intranet site to you, but maybe show off some screenshots when I get more content inserted.. What else I want for this is a user feature, where you can add a value on a user. By administrator, lets say I have a group of sales persons, and I want to show out the yop ten monthly  sales people. I then need some sorting data.  Yes I can use the select users, and arrange them, but it would be better to just add a voting/rating on them, (numbers ) and have the module present it dynamically then, so it changes if I only rate one user up..yes a connection to a sales database would be better, but thats another story...  I think I have somebody code that for me some day..

I have a problem of using Swedish Tags containing Å Ä Ö å ä or ö. When I create a tag with this letters, it transform this letters in the URL to a UTF charset. For example: Åby become c835by så Å become a as it should be. The c835by tag URL is also dead so I can't use this tag cloud thing for Swedish words containing Å Ä Ö å ä or ö.Anyone who know hot to fix this? All the other sef url's work just fine except the tag generated URL.I use joomla 1.5.20k2 v2.3sh404SEF v1.0.20-Beta

The site where I use K2 has tons of photos on each page. So I figured out how to make sure that when someone shares one of my K2 Item pages on Facebook, it uses the Item Image as the thumbnail, instead of making the user scroll through a ton of pictures. So I thought I would share the info!Insert this code into /components/com_k2/views/item/view.html.php. I put it in the Metadata section.         if (JFile::exists(JPATH_SITE.DS.'media'.DS.'k2'.DS.'items'.DS.'cache'.DS.md5("Image".$item->id).'_XS.jpg')) {            $document->addCustomTag('<link rel="image_src" href="'.JURI::root().'media/k2/items/cache/'.md5("Image".$item->id).'_XS.jpg"');         }In order for this to work properly, your XS images must meet Facebook's thumbnail size requirements. developers.facebook.com/docs/share"The thumbnail's width AND height must be at least 50 pixels, and cannot exceed 130x110 pixels. The ratio of both height divided by width and
width divided by height (w/h, h/w) cannot exceed 3.0. For example, an
image of 126x39 pixels will not be displayed, as the ratio of width
divided by height is greater than 3.0 (126/39 = 3.23). Images will be
resized proportionally."

Since this was posted awhile ago, I hope you already found the solution. If not, here is what worked for me.

K2's use of ul and li styles conflicts with many template.css stylesheets ul li formatting. I'm using Joomlart.com's JA Lead template, which uses a small blue square bullet for unordered list items.

To fix that I needed to find out which stylesheet class was affected and add "background:none;" to it in the k2.css file in the component's css directory.

For me, the unwanted bullets were showing up in my Print and Email viral links, and in my Tags.

To fix the viral links I added background:none; to:
div.itemToolbar ul li

To fix the Tags links I added background:none; to:
div.itemTagsBlock ul.itemTags li

I think you would have to do something similar in the class(es) for your problem, i.e., itemRatingList li

Hope this helped,
railer

community.getk2.org/forum/topics/weird-bullets-in-k2?commentId=3536014%3AComment%3A70811

Thank you for clarifying that. The introtext is being cleaned up, that is why you cannot see your images. Go to the general parameters on K2 and locate the Content Cleanup Settings . Enable it for the introtext and where it says Enter which HTML tags not to strip in introtext, add img and every other html tag you don't want to strip.

I would recommend to use the item image though and not embed images to the text, it would be easier and cleaner.

I messed with this, and I see that it picks up the file extension, so if you can simply mod K2 to emit {flvremote} rather than {xmlremote} I think it should probably work for you.

David R. said:If you look at the docs, xml is not a type/tag that AllVideos handles. The available options for AllVideos are very simple and K2's code to handle that is hardwired to do what AllVideos allows for.

www.joomlaworks.gr/content/view/35/41/

For example, the only options you can pass are described in the doc as:

{format/provider}filename|width|height|autoplay{/format/provider}

I hacked the code to allow it to insert {format/provider img=path_to_cover_img} and I had to rewrite the regex code in several places. It's quite a hornets nest in there.

With that said, the key seems to me to be tricking the K2 admin to accept the .xml file as the remote file source, so I'm guessing that if you just use the flvremote and specify your .xml as the source, JW Player takes care of the rest.

Mark Schultz said:OK, thanks. Are you saying that the allvideos plugin won't support any remote xml file, or that my xml file won't work? If it is the latter, can you tell me which version of the JWplayer is being used by the plugin so I can write an XML file that will work? Lefteris Kavadas said:Hi. I will check it again but in any case i think that AllVideos does not support this XML file. So even without the local domain prepended this will not work. Mark Schultz said:Hi Lefteris, there is possibly another issue with the video plugin usage in K2. When I attempt to use a remote XML file, I get a similar symptom as before. At this URL you can see the plugin string in the light gray box on the page:
bit.ly/a4Yeb6

{xmlremote}nvctraining.com/media/LinM/TP-felt-sense/longtail.xml{/xmlremote}

In the K2 backend, the string is displayed as:

{xmlremote}nvcacademy.net/2/http://nvctraining.com/media/LinM/TP-felt-s...{/xmlremote}

again with the local domain prepended to the URL.

my XML file looks like this(view source):
longtail.xml

Any thoughts if the issue remains with K2 or my XML file sucks?

thanks.

If you look at the docs, xml is not a type/tag that AllVideos handles. The available options for AllVideos are very simple and K2's code to handle that is hardwired to do what AllVideos allows for.

www.joomlaworks.gr/content/view/35/41/

For example, the only options you can pass are described in the doc as:

{format/provider}filename|width|height|autoplay{/format/provider}

I hacked the code to allow it to insert {format/provider img=path_to_cover_img} and I had to rewrite the regex code in several places. It's quite a hornets nest in there.

With that said, the key seems to me to be tricking the K2 admin to accept the .xml file as the remote file source, so I'm guessing that if you just use the flvremote and specify your .xml as the source, JW Player takes care of the rest.

Mark Schultz said:OK, thanks. Are you saying that the allvideos plugin won't support any remote xml file, or that my xml file won't work? If it is the latter, can you tell me which version of the JWplayer is being used by the plugin so I can write an XML file that will work?
Lefteris Kavadas said:Hi. I will check it again but in any case i think that AllVideos does not support this XML file. So even without the local domain prepended this will not work. Mark Schultz said:Hi Lefteris, there is possibly another issue with the video plugin usage in K2. When I attempt to use a remote XML file, I get a similar symptom as before. At this URL you can see the plugin string in the light gray box on the page:

bit.ly/a4Yeb6

{xmlremote}nvctraining.com/media/LinM/TP-felt-sense/longtail.xml{/xmlremote}

In the K2 backend, the string is displayed as:

{xmlremote}nvcacademy.net/2/http://nvctraining.com/media/LinM/TP-felt-s...{/xmlremote}

again with the local domain prepended to the URL.

my XML file looks like this(view source):
longtail.xml

Any thoughts if the issue remains with K2 or my XML file sucks?

thanks.

Now i notice that it is also doing in the catagory as well... gettingourcountryback.org/k2-version/item/103-distorting-the-fair-tax

Scott Osteen said:That was it. After turning off the RSS feed it went back to normal. Now that raises the question of how to enable RSS feed in K2 and have appear normal for my users.
William White said:Try turning the rss feed for that category off and see what happens. firebug says div k2Feedicon is the offending block or at least involved with it

I have  a customer website that he would like to highlight a certain amount of text and when the customer clicks on that text it will take them to another (article / item).Is that possible. I have look for about 3 hours now and I can not seem to find anything about this.I have the JCE Editor installed and I have tried the JCK Editor as well. I may be way off with editors, but I figured it would be as easy as highlighting text and adding a link to it.He made the item in K2, I have published it and copied the URL for that item, then unpublished it, when back into that item, selected the text and pasted in the URL into JCE Editor for that word to connect to that item, and It did not work.From what I can see when I'm in K2, and when I choose to create a new link, it only shows me Joomla Articles to connect to and not other K2 items.I'm really stuck on this one thing. He wants to launch tomorrow evening - September 16th at 12:01am for his new business announcement.He has a lot of words that he likes to link this way. I did talk to him about tags too and that did not interest him.I really need some help on this one.Thanks,Ray SalyerGottch-Ya! Graphix, USA

JCE has the ability to add the $user tag to the default folder, so each user uploads everything to their own folder.

You can use $user, $group or tags like that to define the default folder.

So you could have the default folder set to images/$group and all the "bloggers" would upload to the same folder.

Simon Wells (K2 Support) said:If I understand you correctly, you wish for each blogger that enters the frontend, to be able to access their own image folder? K2 can not do this on its own, not even if you use something like JCE with K2 support.

You could set up separate image folders per user that way, but if you want to restrict access between those user folders, it would not do it right out of the box.

If someone else could make a suggestion that would be great, I can see some potential in such a feature.

I used a module called K2 Avatar wall for what you are looking to do which works well once you figure out how to configure it which wasnt the easiest thing. It can do automatic sliders and transitions, arrow buttons, etc... set width number of users, etc...

I got it at joomlaxtc.com although it did cost a few dollars. under $10 for a very cool presentation though. I also use their content wall... both can be set to one image high so it doesn't really have to be a "wall" but the end result is pretty cool. its under extensions-->modules and they have demos

Thomas Johannessen said:I need a slideshow kind of type that select random K2 users and present them as an ( Gavick tabs style) animated slider. like an image slideshow with random images. Only with users. Any ideas?


I tried to work around something, but its not good enough:

1. installed Module anywhere.
2. created 3 K2 user modules picking user random from the Category I want. each module have an uniqe position, all.
3. created 3 tabs in GK Tabs manager (last version), each tab { loadposition uniqe position }. make sure u configure plug at stage 1 correct (add loadposition).
4. publish the module Tabs Gk in left or somewhere.

that works, but I dont want the Tabs at top, so I:
5. enter visibility:hidden in the mod_gktab style horizontal css..

This removed the tabs, but I got a high empty white space above the user and title of my module. I tried to REMOVE the php entries in the tpl file for the module, but my php knowledge is limited, so it dident work at I wanted.

Another issue was that it continu showing only the 3 random users it started on by pageload, but thats an minor thing. management gets a bit heavy if you make more than 3 modules, 3 tabs. I tried to repeat the random load into more tabs, but it picked same users in more than 1 tab etc..

Hi. There is a way. Make a menu link to that tag.

badrun badranaya said:I have so many duplicated content caused from tag view on the same tag. Because if we view a tag, the url varies depend on where we come from. mysite/category/itemlist/tag/our_tag
mysite/category/sub-category/itemlist/tag/our_tag
mysite/category/sub-category/sub-category/itemlist/tag/our_tag

I think there should be a way to always make the URL address for tag view to be shortened such like this :
mysite/component/k2/itemlist/tag/our_tag

Thanks for the reply, I will check into changing templates to see if this solves my issue.

I my site I use multiple joomla templates, we are a school so our sports pages use a joomla template that is differant form the main school site. Then our Fine Arts section uses another joomla template. But when a site visitor clicks any k2 article the article opens on the front page of joomla which is the wrong template for sports articles and the other issue is that I have modules published on the home / front page that I do not want displayed for someone reading and article.

So my goal is when a visitor clicks an article it does not open on the front page and I can open the athletics catagories on the same joomla template i use for athletics.

If someone from K2 development sees this post, it seems to me that a simple solution would be for each category, allow an option to choose a page that you want the article to open to by choosing a menu item. Similar to how we set the pages that modules display on.

Thanks,
David

I have same problem, running 1.5.20 and K2 v 2.3

have No in tags chosen in plugin.
my site search can not find any users or other..

I need a slideshow kind of type that select random K2 users and present them as an ( Gavick tabs style) animated slider. like an image slideshow with random images. Only with users.

Any ideas?



I tried to work around something, but its not good enough:

1. installed Module anywhere.
2. created 3 K2 user modules picking user random from the Category I want. each module have an uniqe position, all.
3. created 3 tabs in GK Tabs manager (last version), each tab { loadposition uniqe position }. make sure u configure plug at stage 1 correct (add loadposition).
4. publish the module Tabs Gk in left or somewhere.

that works, but I dont want the Tabs at top, so I:
5. enter visibility:hidden in the mod_gktab style horizontal css..

This removed the tabs, but I got a high empty white space above the user and title of my module. I tried to REMOVE the php entries in the tpl file for the module, but my php knowledge is limited, so it dident work at I wanted.

Another issue was that it continu showing only the 3 random users it started on by pageload, but thats an minor thing. management gets a bit heavy if you make more than 3 modules, 3 tabs. I tried to repeat the random load into more tabs, but it picked same users in more than 1 tab etc..

I have so many duplicated content caused from tag view on the same tag. Because if we view a tag, the url varies depend on where we come from.
mysite/category/itemlist/tag/our_tag
mysite/category/sub-category/itemlist/tag/our_tag
mysite/category/sub-category/sub-category/itemlist/tag/our_tag

I think there should be a way to always make the URL address for tag view to be shortened such like this :
mysite/component/k2/itemlist/tag/our_tag

but the search does not find all, tags, even some items in the a K2 category..

I run the last versions

David thank you for replying bro, but I had gotten it worked a little earlier, I was able to keep everything in tact so there was no missing K2 Junctions.

// Word limit
function wordLimit($str, $limit = 100, $end_char = '…') {
if (trim($str) == '')
return $str;
// always strip tags for text
$str = strip_tags($str);
preg_match('/\s*(?:\S*\s*){'.(int) $limit.'}/', $str, $matches);
if (strlen($matches[0]) == strlen($str))
$end_char = '';
return substr($str, 0, $limit).$end_char;
}


will change words to chars.. works like a charm.

Ok my friend. ;)

Seriously though, my feelings were not hurt in the slightest. I was just making a point. I also didn't ever attack you personally -- just disagreed with your points, and attempted to explain why.

Good luck with your projects!

k2isgood said:Think whatever you want I really dont care what you think I still maintain K2isgood but its not the best .... (and yes support is definitely one aspect where k2 needs to improve)
How bad you felt when i mentioned that your opinions are crap, hannn so why do you pass judgement on others opinion when you cant take it on your own opinions.


And lastly, though I did not like what you said and how you targetted me but still, thanks for trying to help in "last two paras"


David R. said:k2isgood, I'm sorry if you took offense to my reply... it wasn't my intention to hurt your feelings, but rather to be open and honest with you since you are questioning why you're not getting responses to your posts. I suppose I knew that it would probably strike a nerve when I wrote it, and obviously it did! Do you notice anything now about your approach in this entire thread? Is my reply really different than what you did here? Clearly it made you really really mad. Do you think perhaps that might be how the very people you want help from might be viewing your thread? First, in regards to "Boy who cried wolf" comment.
1. You name yourself k2isgood.
2. You post a comment and get no official response. This is no surprise because the Joomlaworks people really haven't been frequenting this forum, nor responding to messages with suggestions.
3. You post this thread titled "Dont Use K2, NO SUPPORT!!! You will be stuck"
4. When someone from Joomlaworks replies to you to explain that they are busy tracking bugs, coding and maintaining the community ---
5. You write: "PS: I did not want to hurt any of the K2 developers by creating this thread and creation of this thread by no means suggest that k2 is not good, infact my username is k2isgood.
By creating this thread I just wanted to make members of the forum more active. :)"

So in essence when you said: there is "NO SUPPORT" and "You will be stuck" what you really meant is that "k2 is really good" and you are doing everyone a service by making sure that they are awake?

In the short amount of time I've been using K2, I've actually tried to answer a number of questions for people -- and I think I may have helped at least one or two. When I fixed the tag trim bug and posted the patch, that probably helped a couple of people, and the patch also is in svn now. I'm not saying that is anything great but it's more than you've contributed, so it seems like what you're really saying is that, because I don't agree with your opinions about what has to be done to K2 to make it better, my opinions are crap.

In regards to your desire for a K2 export utility --- I stated it before and will say it again. It can be done in one SQL query! In the Joomla 1.0 days I was the team leader of a Joomla gallery component and module that had a lot of users, so I do know what goes into writing these things, and it's a lot of work. To make such a utility would take a lot of time and effort for very little gain. Joomlaworks might decide to do that work someday, but if I were them it would be really low on my priority list. And for a start -- you don't have to empty your articles table, right?

Lastly, in terms of your SEF issue, I understand your concern, although it might have helped if you explained this originally. This is how K2 is designed at present. I don't know if there's a way to do what you want with sh404sef or not, so I'll refrain from commenting further. Since it's a commercial product costing $65-$250 you might have more luck trying to get support from them on it, assuming you licensed it. It seems like K2 is "compatible" with it, in that it does remove the name= portion of the url params and functions properly. What you need is beyond that normal functionality, but it clearly is not broken.

Think whatever you want I really dont care what you think
I still maintain K2isgood but its not the best .... (and yes support is definitely one aspect where k2 needs to improve)
How bad you felt when i mentioned that your opinions are crap, hannn so why do you pass judgement on others opinion when you cant take it on your own opinions.


And lastly, though I did not like what you said and how you targetted me but still, thanks for trying to help in "last two paras"


David R. said:k2isgood, I'm sorry if you took offense to my reply... it wasn't my intention to hurt your feelings, but rather to be open and honest with you since you are questioning why you're not getting responses to your posts. I suppose I knew that it would probably strike a nerve when I wrote it, and obviously it did! Do you notice anything now about your approach in this entire thread? Is my reply really different than what you did here? Clearly it made you really really mad. Do you think perhaps that might be how the very people you want help from might be viewing your thread? First, in regards to "Boy who cried wolf" comment.

1. You name yourself k2isgood.
2. You post a comment and get no official response. This is no surprise because the Joomlaworks people really haven't been frequenting this forum, nor responding to messages with suggestions.
3. You post this thread titled "Dont Use K2, NO SUPPORT!!! You will be stuck"
4. When someone from Joomlaworks replies to you to explain that they are busy tracking bugs, coding and maintaining the community ---
5. You write: "PS: I did not want to hurt any of the K2 developers by creating this thread and creation of this thread by no means suggest that k2 is not good, infact my username is k2isgood.
By creating this thread I just wanted to make members of the forum more active. :)"

So in essence when you said: there is "NO SUPPORT" and "You will be stuck" what you really meant is that "k2 is really good" and you are doing everyone a service by making sure that they are awake?

In the short amount of time I've been using K2, I've actually tried to answer a number of questions for people -- and I think I may have helped at least one or two. When I fixed the tag trim bug and posted the patch, that probably helped a couple of people, and the patch also is in svn now. I'm not saying that is anything great but it's more than you've contributed, so it seems like what you're really saying is that, because I don't agree with your opinions about what has to be done to K2 to make it better, my opinions are crap.

In regards to your desire for a K2 export utility --- I stated it before and will say it again. It can be done in one SQL query! In the Joomla 1.0 days I was the team leader of a Joomla gallery component and module that had a lot of users, so I do know what goes into writing these things, and it's a lot of work. To make such a utility would take a lot of time and effort for very little gain. Joomlaworks might decide to do that work someday, but if I were them it would be really low on my priority list. And for a start -- you don't have to empty your articles table, right?

Lastly, in terms of your SEF issue, I understand your concern, although it might have helped if you explained this originally. This is how K2 is designed at present. I don't know if there's a way to do what you want with sh404sef or not, so I'll refrain from commenting further. Since it's a commercial product costing $65-$250 you might have more luck trying to get support from them on it, assuming you licensed it. It seems like K2 is "compatible" with it, in that it does remove the name= portion of the url params and functions properly. What you need is beyond that normal functionality, but it clearly is not broken.