I can tell you what to hack to allow the hyphens, but I have no idea if there's any particular reason the hyphen is disabled, so use at your own risk.

In the /administrator/components/com_k2/models/item.php file at around line 576 or so you'll find this line:

$tag = str_replace('-','',$tag);

Comment it out like so:

//$tag = str_replace('-','',$tag);

I decided today to try an get Artisteer and K2 to play nicely but in the end it is too difficult. K2 define UL LI for things like comments stars and so will over ride the templates UL LI but social bookmarks don't define LI so you get graphic bullets mixed in. This is the same for any template with graphical bullet points egJa-purity.
The easiest solution is to use default HTML bullet points - go into your Artisteer templates CSS folder and edit the template.css - remove everthing between /* begin PostBullets */ and /* end PostBullets */.
Your graphical bullet points will still work in modules and menus.

kiril Hristov Yovev said:Ae you serious? Or this is some kind of joke... I couldn't find feature like this in k2 and i think that this is some of the things that must have.


Items can have one and only one parent category. This could be changed at the database level, but would require substantial reworking of code, when as others have pointed out, the required mechanics to support this already exists in tags. I don't see any reason for this to be changed. K2 lets you have it both ways -- a strict hierarchy of categories, as well as a many to many relationship between a "tag" and "articles".

Steven,
If you look at the tag cloud module you will notice that it is simply a configuration of the k2_tools. There are settings that define how many tags to display, and what the min font and max font size is. So the first idea I would have for you is to go in, and set the min size and max size to 100%. This would in effect disable the "clouding" by making every tag the same size regardless of # of occurrences.

Hmm. Adding the "layout=category" didn't make a difference so I started poking around in the code that builds item lists. There are 2 files I looked at view.html.php and view.raw.php in com_k2/views/itemlists/. Both of them have something in common in the display function. For each task K2 has to set the layout, for the category view is has this -

$this->setLayout('category');

For search, date, and tag is has -

$this->setLayout('generic');

The display is definitely the generic layout, but changing the line to category actually kills the page - no articles are listed. Not sure why it wouldn't work by changing that line, I need to dig a little deeper.

We've used tags to accomplish this very successfully. One of the features we requested very early on was a display by tag menu item for this very reason.

I tried sigpro, uploaded a zipped folder of images I need in the gallery. but it only shows the tags {gallery}71{/gallery} I also made sure the plugin is enabled

William White said:If a product is an item. A item gallery with sigpro would be a collection of images for that item or product

I've created a category tagging system of sorts on my test site. It works exactly like item tags... but with categories. In fact, it uses some of the item tag system, so it actually disables item tagging.

Nick, you know I've done this of course, you and I were talking about it.

However, I'm having one issue I was hoping someone might be able to address.

When viewing the tags i.e index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=tag&tag=[tag] it simply displays the item with the id of the category I want it to display. I'm sure it's fairly easy to fix, I just can't for the life of me find where that part of the code is.

Basically, I need to change the tag task from displaying items, and make it display categories instead. Once that's done, the tag conversion is complete.

I'd appreciate any help anyone can offer. Thanks :)

Your right I didnt from my question very well. What I am looking to do is simply change (k2 tools) tag cloud to a list. Each tag on their own line (like category list) SO basically, how would I change the category view to pull tags and not categories.

William White said:Im probably missing the question, because if youve use tags to display content from multiple categories the ideas below are simple compared to that@! You have several choices of how to display items in a single category.
Use the K2 Category view
Use the mod_k2_content (can be used with loadposition in regular articles) in the content area
Use mod_k2_tools
Turn everything off and add back displayed options until you get what you want.

Im probably missing the question, because if youve use tags to display content from multiple categories the ideas below are simple compared to that@!
You have several choices of how to display items in a single category.
Use the K2 Category view
Use the mod_k2_content (can be used with loadposition in regular articles) in the content area
Use mod_k2_tools
Turn everything off and add back displayed options until you get what you want.

I have a site where we relied heavy on tags to display items in multipal categories. Now the issue we are having is we want to display all the items in a category type list and not as a tag cloud. I'v done my best looking through the code in the k2tools mod but I am totally lost on this one. Help me obi-one, no really if anyone has any ideas please let me know. thanks 

Sometimes it's somewhat hard to find (get) really clearifying answers in K2 matters. I suppose it's the nature of Open Source communities - many possibilities, many questions and sometimes you need a bit of luck to find the person who knows the particular question you are dealing with. This question is such and I have drawn the conclusion that the blank space is intended because that gives you the possiblity to assign several classes to a specific HTML tag, for example class="frontpage leftcolumn news". What's confusing is that the core Joomla module class suffix adds to the class="moduletable" attribute, for example class="moduletable_frontpage". This results, for example, in code looking like this:
< div class="moduletable_frontpage" >
< h3 >Header< /h3 >
< div id="k2ModuleBox32" class="k2ItemsBlock _frontpage" >

It's the behaviour that needs to be understood. I think it provides more possibilities to the styling, BUT it took me a while to get the hang of it.
Rgds

Also, you may find a way to use tags and then display by tags acheving the same result

Hello,

Can someone here help me with the following:

Using k2 and sh404SEF I want to achieve the following pattern for the title tag:

Category | Subcategory | Item.

Right now it’s just Item.

How is this to be done?

It seems that some tag (a div tag), probably inside the content, doesn't close correctly or is missing. Could you try enabling the Cleanup parameter through the general K2 parameters to see if it corrects the problem?

Hi.  I am real new to K2.  All has been good except for this problem.  When i click on *some* tags, the page formatting goes all weird.This page shows the tags that are supposed to appear in the left nav bar position imposed over the top of the content text: awv.tenoutoften.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=tag&tag=LawHowever, other tags work fine: awv.tenoutoften.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=tag&tag=Windows%20ServerAnd the home page works fine too: awv.tenoutoften.org/Is this a problem with my template (www.yootheme.com)?  Or something else?ThanksAndrew

I have a suggestion for a new feature in K2.When posting item in K2, you can upload images using the the "Image" tab. Wouldn't it be cool to add a new module that display all images a image gallery? When you click on a image, you get the full version of the image with a link to the item. This could be used as a image archive for all items in K2. (including download, send as e-mail, link to item + more). Even a tagcloud of images.

Hi there!I have some errors in articles that show SQL querys regarding K2 tables. I don't know what's the issue and it seems to work properly but how can I do to fix that or, at least, hide that?You can see this here: greensf.es/es/noticias-eventos/item/17-lanzamiento-de-tauro-printing-intelligence%C2%AE-la-tecnolog%C3%ADa-al-servicio-de-un-ahorro-eficiente-y-ecol%C3%B3gicoNo valid database connection You have an error in your SQL syntax.
Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the
right syntax to use near 'SELECT tagID FROM jos_k2_tags_xref WHERE
itemID=17)' at line 1 SQL=SELECT * FROM jos_k2_tags as tags WHERE
tags.published=1 AND tags.id IN (SELECT tagID FROM jos_k2_tags_xref
WHERE itemID=17)

Will there be advantages to keeping the K2 acl after 1.6 acl is added?
I think that keeping the k2 acl and adding additional features to it like automatically assigning and/or creating a k2 acl and category would be really helpfull

I fifth... I really need it...

@Wout , Even I type something in my meta categoty description, the page still fetch the global metadata

Wout said:A temporary trick is to enter meta tags manually in the description of the k2 catagory. It's far from ideal but works well.