Thanks again William.

Do you know where the next version of K2 stands on this and if so when it's to be expected "stable"? Are you a developer? this is an important issue for me as we have authors submitting articles and the K2 front end submit items is buggy and also has no mega tags ...so I will have continuously to transfer articles from Joomla core to K2.

Thanks - Petra

William White said:A way might be to use an extension for Joomla to export to csv or xls and then search this forum to import from csv file This is only one way joomla - k2 but may help

This is more of a request than a bug...In models/item.php on the frontend, lines 129-137:        //Extra fields        if(        ($view=='item' && $item->params->get('itemExtraFields')) ||        ($view=='itemlist' && ($task=='' || $task=='category') && $item->params->get('catItemExtraFields')) ||        ($view=='itemlist' && ($task=='search' || $task=='tag' || $task=='date') && $item->params->get('genericItemExtraFields'))        )        {            $item->extra_fields=K2ModelItem::getItemExtraFields($item->extra_fields);        }The ->extra_fields property only gets decoded from a JSON string if the params are set to output extra fields.  I'm using extra fields in a custom template and dont want them to output but wish to access them via code and use them for more bespoke purposes.  Right now I need an extra line in my template mimicking the above manually.I can't see any reason not to always convert the extra_fields param from JSON string into its object form...Also, perhaps a few more API hooks to in this model like getExtraFieldByName(), ...byId()  etc..Thx!

Thanks William,

I think I'm a bit on the right way thanks to you, but I only found this file components\com_k2\views\item\tmpl\default.php, but it looks like the right place.

I see this code on line 251: see attachment
and this code on line 257: see attachment

then there is the function at line 20 to 37:
/**
(function submitbutton(pressbutton) {
if (pressbutton == 'cancel') {
submitform( pressbutton );
return;
}
if (trim( document.adminForm.title.value ) == "") {
alert( '' );
} else if (trim( document.adminForm.catid.value ) == "0") {
alert( '' );
} else {

var getSelectedTags = document.getElementById("selectedTags");
for(i=0; i

submitform( pressbutton );
}
}*///

But I don't know how to bring this all together, I guess what they are saying is I now need some code to redirect the user to the home page and put that code in this function. Could this simply be a html link that I put there, any help would be appriciated, I guess this is a little to much above my head, but I'm willing to learn.

Thanks so far,
Greetings from Santana

Hi Simon — sure. Just getting on the queue of people requesting it. Thanks!

It would definitely be better than having to color new text using the Select Text Color tool to differentiate it as edited text. The Select Text Color tool adds a span tag, which cannot be removed by the same tool once it's in the code — at least in the JCE Editor. So to remove the red color from the text, we'd have to choose another color (black or grey for text) which could wreak havoc with css styled body text in templates. You know what I mean...


Simon Wells (K2 Support) said:@Railer Unfortunately, there will always be that scenario with any software. Somebody wants something thats in the pipeline, we all want it now. It basically all comes down to features that are most requested and most needed.
Stay tuned, thing can change.

Simon
K2 Support

I have used now the category display intro items.
in user display intro items & tag display intro items its shows me the photo to left and to the right the article. Why it doesn't show me the category display intro items to the left?

William White said:B_Dark is correct, when using the browze server option there is an option to left and right, but i thing k2 is using the editors image upload dialogue to get the image up and doesnt use the alignment option. Your title says "sudden Problem" - did it ever work for you?

When adding a tag with a hyphen it strips out the hyphen. Any ideas?community.getk2.org/forum/topics/show-hyphenated-words-in-tags?xg_source=activity

Dear Mongo (This way it sounds a bit silly...),

thank you very much for this quite extensive "review". This confirms my suspicion in terms of design vs. function.
I will take the vacancies for making the final decision.

My main problem with K2 is just about the frontend submission as (with the problematic popup and standard Joomla editor/buttons/look and-feel) it doesn´t really satisfies me.
The image capatibilities lack some quite important features like uploader, captions, image-ordering.
But some of these are also present at jReviews.

I already tried breezingforms as an alternative to the K2 Submit "form". This has some big advantages like field validation, multi-page layout but also has other issues...

Yes if jReviews would be more accepted by templaters i wouldn´t think about any alternative. On the other hand - K2 got such a great CCK within a very short time. There is a good chace that K2 will get even better in even less time than jReviews.

Thanks and best regards!

Well I don't think I'll get rid of Jreviews, it's light years ahead when it comes to integration with other components. Example: Jomsocial - member reviews, Event list - event reviews. But Jomsocial when it gets out of beta will have events, galleries, movies, music, and basically everything that Jreviews integrates with. So you have to ask yourself do you want to use a solid state component like Jomsocial to handle those site features or use Jreviews to patch them together.

Then you have to look at design and aesthetics, K2 just simply looks better when it comes to item pages, with or without a Gavick template, I find myself designing Jreviews pages to look like K2 pages. Whomever designed the K2 Item page layout I tip my hat. K2's progressions has been amazing, I screamed for Gavick to redesign News GK1 and they came out with News GK4 K2 capable now they need to do GK Image Show for K2. But the way K2 handles thumbnails just bugs me, just too much pre-thought and no fexibility.

Sigpro_firsttry to wrap this up, Alejandro will always keep Jreviews in the loop, although it lacks design it remains the best option when you need flexibility. Owners of Jreviews like us have to make a big choice, design over function.

sigpro_firsttry said:Hi Mongo! That´s really an interesting question as it would be great advantage to use all the com_content plugins and modules available. For single modules or plugins it might be just as easy as replcacing "com_content" with com_k2"? Or is that complete nonsense...

The other interesting thing in your post is that you already tried jreviews as well and compared it against K2. I am in the same situation now.

Would you mind giving a little statement for what reason you switched from jreviews to K2?
This is a burning issue here now. Maybe we can save a lot of time NOT trying jreviews and better directly get into action with K2?

Thanks for any statement from you!

I'm going to preface my comments by warning you that I'm going to provide alot of noob feedback here, and some of it may sound critical. Take it as a fresh perspective and take the best and ignore the rest! But I also want to say thanks a million too, because without this site I would have abandoned K2 already.

Templates?
I found the "91-templating" doc you mentioned and was able to get a new K2 "template" to show up in the category drop down list. However, I'm not sure you can truly call that a template, since the scheme you described doesn't include any css. I haven't yet looked into the css 4 k2 tool you mentioned, but it sounds like it may be necessary to create a complete template for K2. In fact, in my case that tool may be all I need.

Functional K2
At this stage of my development I'm just looking to get functional content into K2, and I believe I can do that through the k2.css alone. My issues deal primarily with text visibility. I say K2 isn't functional but that's just because there's a conflict between the K2 foreground / background and that of the Artisteer template.

Dark or Light Text "conflict"
It may very well be that the color of an item's title, which is inherited from the Joomla template and not specified in k2.css is the same color as the (block) background which is defined in the k2.css file, therefore rendering the title text invisible. I suspect that type of conflict has a high degree of probability of occurring, especially if the joomla template has a dark tone or background. Is it even possible for a K2 template to be designed such that it doesn't know or care about foreground & background colors of the Joomla template it inherits values from?

Similar problems arise within joomla itself, such as white text for a dark background that can't be seen in the article editor without changing the editor configuration to provide a dark background. Fortunately that capability is available.

Template Expectations
I also read your article about template expectations (simon.getk2.org/blog/item/422-k2-templates-the-expectation-a...) and was surprised by the lack of details there.

To be fair the purpose of that article seemed to be explaining how joomla templates and K2 templates are totally separate and segregated beasts and therefore they are inherently "compatible". However, I can tell you from first hand experience that is a bit of an oversimplification.

What is Compatibility?
There are several things to consider in determining template compatibility in addition to structure. Perhaps it's all in the word "compatible", but I'll bet many people expect turn-key compatibility where such issues are handled by Joomla or K2.

It would be nice if K2 was structured such that templates were fully encapsulated, including an xml file etc so it could be installed like any other joomla extention. From what I can tell a K2 template must be "placed" in the correct location by ftp or other direct file insertion method.

My Expectations
When I installed K2 I had a site template I was fairly happy with and I wanted to add K2's functionality. However I discovered I needed to redesign the k2.css to make it work (mainly to resolve the invisible text problems due to foreground and background choices in the 2 templates). And that is a time consuming and tedious task as it stands today.

As I read the "expectations" article it sounded to me like people didn't expect to work through all the detailed tweeks as I am doing, which seem to arise as a side affect of choosing a dark background color scheme.

Darell, a simple hack of the template should sort out his problem for you.

In the default.php, change the line

to


and this will strip out the {lofimg ...} tag.

Darell Sison said:Hmmm, again this is a great module, except when we use the custom tag it still appears on the introtext. And a simpler solution would be just to get the k2 item image. I will investigate on how to edit the code to get the item image, after the holy week break.

Hi Mongo!

That´s really an interesting question as it would be great advantage to use all the com_content plugins and modules available.

For single modules or plugins it might be just as easy as replcacing "com_content" with com_k2"? Or is that complete nonsense...

The other interesting thing in your post is that you already tried jreviews as well and compared it against K2. I am in the same situation now.

Would you mind giving a little statement for what reason you switched from jreviews to K2?
This is a burning issue here now. Maybe we can save a lot of time NOT trying jreviews and better directly get into action with K2?

Thanks for any statement from you!

The default image directory is if you want to use the gallery as tags inside the item and therefore should stay as images/stories.
When you upload the zip file of images do you see the images at the backend or inside the folder media/k2/galleries?

Better late than never I guess... I came across this same problem and this is the code I used to accomplish it:

< ?php
jimport( 'joomla.application.module.helper' );
$modules = JModuleHelper::getModules( 'moduleposition' );
foreach ($modules as $module) {
echo JModuleHelper::renderModule( $module );
}
?>


Obviously, change moduleposition to the module position you want to load... and remove the extra space in the opening tag...

There is a new version online (0.3): www.individual-it.net/en/Joomla/
Now its possible to import images and tags.
I have also a little help ready: www.individual-it.net/en/Instructions-for-K2-Import-Component.html

The import of images is very slow because K2 create 6 different images out of one. Do we need them all?

P.S. if you like the component please write a small review or vote: extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension-specific/k2-extensions/12408

I just bought the Simple Image Gallery Pro to use with the k2 component.

The problem i get is with the k2 image gallery uploader.

Nothing appears once its uploaded, All that appears is a tick box asking me if i want to delete these items.

All works ok using the standard tags in normal joomla articles.

see below:

www.laurencecorner.com/cms/blog

I have tried changing the location to media/k2/galleries, still doesn't work.

Any ideas would be great jason

Dear Simon,

 

Goodmorning again from Kos!

 

I have a problem with prinitng articles using "print button". I'm using tabs & slides plug-in from Joomlaworks and when the user clicks on print button the content inside the slides is invisible.

The page that the print button displays, acts as a HTML page inside a popup.

 

The strange think is that In my localhost installation (which is used for testing) I have no problem. The print button displays the "{slide= Title}" tag as a title and than displays the contents.

 

Try the following link to see the problem live (the page is in Greek!):

 

www.travelfree.gr/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=19:κως-οικογενειακές-διακοπές-8-ημέρες-/-7-νύχτες-σε-ξενοδοχεία-4*-ακτοπλοϊκώς&Itemid=20

 

Have you got any idea?

 

Thanks in advance for you help!

 

Best Regards,

George Vouliakis

 

Dear Kenneth,

i just noticed your post while looking for comparison of K2 vs. jReviews regarding speed/performance behaviour.

You tell us that K2 is very fast - did you already tested it on a live site against jReviews?
I really would love to get some more details about the advantage/ disadvantages of they two systems!

Thank you and best regards!

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Hi,I am having a problem in using k2. In admin panel i add a item under a catagory. But it is not showing in the site.But it is still showing in the admin panel. 

I attach three screenshots which will give you better idea about the problem.

Please get me out of the problem.

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It's at RC2 stage.
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