I'm getting very limited results with the K2 search which is presenting issues for testers.Before I report this as a bug I wanted to see if anyone could point out and major oversights on my end.I have it configured properly but am not seeing results that I would expect from even a simple search.For example, check out:http://www.design3.net/by-software/unity-3d/unity-fundamentals?layout=categoryYou can see in the list plenty of names and descriptions with the keyword "Unity" as well as it listed in the tags and "software used" which is one of my extra fields.However a simple search for 'unity' in the search box brings up zero results.A search for 'intro' brings up one item from a different category.<b>My working assumption is that the search is currently only querying the item name field. How can I broaden this to include search results from the content description, tags and extra fields?</b>K2 is awesome but this is presenting some major challenges.Thanks!

I'm also getting odd results with the K2 search.
I have it configured properly but am not seeing results that I would expect from even a simple search.

For example, check out:
www.design3.net/by-software/unity-3d/unity-fundamentals?layout=category

You can see in the list plenty of names and descriptions with the keyword "Unity" as well as it listed in the tags and "software used" which is one of my extra fields.

However a simple search for 'unity' in the search box brings up zero results.

A search for 'intro' brings up one item from a different category.

My working assumption is that the search is currently only querying the item name field. How can I broaden this to include search results from the item description, tags and extra fields?

Thanks!

OK I have the last question answered by using a K2 Import component which really does the trick (thanks Artur). Still need some advice on how to make the article title dynamically appear with the "extra field group" title. EG Article is "My article" and extra field group title is "Additional info for" then this would appear : "Addition info My article"

The above would really be beneficial for SEO purposes because the extra field groups use header tags, so would be ideal to keep them different for every page.

I'm still trying to also track down the solution for getting a item field name to appear as an image. I did ask this on K2joom before and was kindly answered by Simon, but I never implemented (figuring that I could use the advice after other tweaking). If anyone could enlighten me on what to do I would be very appreciative.

This is exactly what I was doing. I tried it again and still no luck. Can it be because I have the view tags disabled? I will really love for this to work. Also I installed the gallery plugin and I am still unable to use the gallery section in the items.

William White said:deactivate the module you have now Use the Joomla Module Manager
Select New - K2 tools
Make sure that all is checked on the left and search box is selected in the picklist on the right
Select the position you want it in
Leave everything else default and publish
see attached png for my settings that work

Had issues with this in the module when truncating ntros in items

The utilities function doesn't seem to work in the module - cant speak for sub cats :)

try editing this function 'wordLimit' in the file '/components/com_k2/helpers/utitlies.php':
change to this;

function wordLimit($str, $limit, $end_char = '…') {

if (trim($str) == '')
return $str;
if (strlen($str) &gt; $limit) {
$str = strip_tags($str);
$str = substr($str, 0, $limit);
$end = strrpos($str, ' ');
if ($end === false) {
$end = $limit;
}
$string = substr($str, 0, $end) . '...';
}
return $string;

}

Hi,
       Am new to k2 component as of now i want to display the generic.php content which is similar to category page.

Generic.php:
 Needs to include attachments according to the tagged name
If Tagged names are 

Dvd and Cd

under Dvd ---product names are Dvd1 and Dvd2

under Cd---product names are Cd1 and Cd2

under Dvd1--am having an Dvd1 attachment

under Dvd 2 am having an Dvd2 attachment


Using some query i have got the values in generic.php


As of now am able display the 

Dvd1:Attachments are Dvd1 and Dvd2
Dvd2:attachments are Dvd1  and Dvd2

but i want to show Dvd1:should show only DVD1 attachment
and Dvd2:should show only Dvd2 attachment,what conditions needs to implement to get the correct attachment should be binded in the  product.
can you please help me out here.
Thanks in Advance

I feel your pain and I also want to find out the SEF thing. Is there any hope to change the words like "item", "itemlist" or "tag" etc? I know sh404sef supports k2 perfectly by giving links like ../YOUR-MENU-ITEM/CATEGORY-NAME/ITEM=NAME.html, but sometimes it also raise some other issues because we might also have other extensions installed. By the way if i remember correctly the sh404sef gives duplicates when it comes to tag listing view because you acturally enter tag listing from different items.

I wouldn't mind hacking, please anybody give some clue.

Carolyn Harris said:I would also like some input on the best SEF to use. I have my site split into regular Joomla! content (articles, news items), K2 (for a Library section) as well as JomSocial for our community. J! core SEF works really well for the J! content and also the JomSocial but the K2 content has silly links like: nwolibrary.com/nwolibrary/item/694-mystery-fulcanelli or, for a subcategory: nwolibrary.com/nwolibrary/itemlist/category/34-hermetics I would love to shorten and tighten them up but don't want to install something that a) invalidates or otherwise breaks the J! SEF, and b) messes up K2. Any suggestions?

Thanks for the help guys. Turns out it was the h3 tag after all. I can't figure out where it pulled that original font from which is what I was looking for but I just added my own stuff in and it worked sweet as.

Thanks again Luis, big help.

Luis Sarmento said:for what i can see in chrome's developer tools the color for that title is defined in brick.css under h1, h3, h4, h5, h6, h2. The font-size is defined in template.css under h3.
hope it helps
luis

Various template providers have started to provide templates that are advertised as "K2 Ready," "K2 Compatible" or as having "integrated K2 styles".  But nobody is giving any detailed descriptions of how their templates are particularly suited for K2.The only article I see on templating for K2 jumps right in to sub-templating.  I think a lot of us who are just starting with K2 need to have some basic questions answered.  I group those questions into 2 main categories:
K2 Specific vs Standard Joomla Template:  Will a standard Joomla Template work?  What K2 functionality will be lost without a "K2 compatible template"?  What are the minimal K2 specific template features that should be present for a template to be considered "K2 compatible"?
Optimal K2 Styling.  Even if a standard Joomla template will work, or if a template is "compatible", it might not be optimal.  Evidently there is some advantage to be gained by tailoring styles to K2 elements.  What integrated K2 styling features should we look for to maximize the potential of K2?

One other thing is needed in addition to answers to the basic questions above.  That is for template designers to be specific about K2 features so template consumers can know what they are getting.  So let this be a request for template designers to start adding feature lists to their K2 template advertisements.I'm looking forward to getting a handle on what to expect minimally of a free K2 specific template as well as what to look for in a premium K2 template to make full use of its special content management features.

Updating a friend's site today, which uses K2, reminded me of a couple of features that would be terrific.
The ability to edit captions of image gallery photos through the editing interface.I know how to use the labels.txt file, but the great advantage of Joomla is it's a tool which allows non-technical users to admin their own site without having to learn about FTP. There seem to be hundreds of lightbox-style image gallery plugins for Joomla, but I don't know of one of them that lets the admin edit the captions through the management interface. If K2 could add that feature to manage the SIGpro images, that would really make it stand out even more.
With that same image gallery, he wanted to add one photo to the 25 that were already up. This isn't something you can do through the GUI. You have to reupload the entire gallery. This required me to FTP the new image to the media directory and manually update the labels.txt file. It would be more elegant to allow the adding, editing, removing of single images within a gallery set.
During this it occurred to me that you are limited to one gallery and one video per article, but multiple downloads. I can see situations were I would definitely find value in posting multiple videos per article, and maybe even multiple galleries. I know that you can use the article plugin code to do this, but it would be cool to see the built-in gallery and video tools operate more like the Downloads, with multiple entries allowed.

I had the same error when trying to embed hulu.com movies. I was able to get rid of the error by removing the object width and height tags, the extra params tags and only used the actual embed source code. Worked like a charm.

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 seperate the options e.g.: "option 1, option 3"
Please check it and give me tips how to improve.

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

Not sure if this has been discussed previously - searched but couldn't find it.

 

I want to set up a screen that consists of simple, single line entries containing 4 fields including a link to another page. For example (the site, btw, is used to display photographic sporting images)

 (The | are the field separators)

 

VES Rnd 2 | Mt Beauty, VIC | Sunday May 09 2010 | Series | &lt;link to page here&gt;

 

So far I have only been able to find a way to display this information (which, btw, is no problem getting it into the database) but without hacking php code, only displays like this:

 


VES 2 Mt Beauty Additional Info


Date 27 Feb 2010
Event Name VES Round 2
Location Mt Beauty, VIC
Series VES 2
Site

First - even if I used this layout I want to remove, compleyelt, the wording 'Additional Info' - I can't find anywhere (aside from code) to do this (IMHO - an unprofessional look and abbreviation).

 

Now I realise, if I really want to, I can get in and modify the display code for this page BUT - I cannot get this information to display inside the Content pane of the web site (I am currently still playing around with the JA_Purity template - so nothing fancy).

 

The next item should, ideally, be listed straight underneath the first one and so on - IOW a simply list, down the screen for however many items I want to display. I have already been able to have these items come up and get listed under a specific menu button (I have 4 broad categories of events and these will contain many more items - which is what I want to display above).  I also realise that splitting these 4 categories may cause me troubles as I want ALL items to display, in the content pane, in reverse date order (ie newest on top going down the screen to oldest) and also be able to select a menu option to just display either a broad category or a series of races).

 

Has anyone set up a site along these lines. Maybe I am trying to get too much out of K2 - my one complaint is the lack of documentation - unfrotunately this is enough for me to only give this another couple of days before I start looking elsewhere to try and get what I want - but I am willing, at this stage, to give it a go IF I can get a simple listing in the content pane.

 

 

 

 

 

SORRY !!!

Hello friends, and developers of K2.

First I would like to congratulate you for the excellent work of yours.

I would like to take some questions because I am having some problems with the component K2.

Accessing this link www.portalcorretordeimoveis.com.br/dimas-64673/item/22-villa-paulista-apartments.

I developed this real estate website and use the K2 to make the ads, but am having problems with image gallery, the component is not recognizing the path of the zipped file that I send.

On this page I went to work I needed to make a gallery using the (gallery) (/ gallery). Realize that the end of the exit, another gallery page, which is the gallery of the same K2 that does not appear.

I would also give a hint to the component, because this functionally needed for this project and could not solve the problem.

It would be nice if we EXTRA FIELD, were possible criarmo SEB-EXTRA, use this function to create states and cities related to the states.

Another function very, very necessary for this project is a search engine that allowed me to filter a list of characteristics of extra-fild or tags, as in real estate systems, to filter, dormitories, values, state, city, etc. ..

One more thing, it would be nice too we can break the line in the description of EXTRA FIELD.

Well that's it, a big hug to everyone and thank you.

I'm waiting.

Dimas

1.
a- You can write a external script that query all K2 Items to get Tags of each item and update into meta fields :)
b- For new item, a plugin base on onBeforeSave can do same work :)

Thank you

Simon Wells (K2 Support) said:Hi SharkyOK, with K2 one of the main featured for you would be the nested categories, or categories within a category.An example for you would beMeat Dishes (category)Pork Dishes (sub category)Chicken Dishes (sub category)Lamb Dishes (sub category)Desserts (category)Cakes (sub category)Ices (sub category)Puddings (sub category)Blackberry (sub sub category)Strawberry (sub sub category)That would be a start of a structure.Then you create your K2 Items (replaces joomla articles)In your K2 items, you can then set tags as keywords to link the items.You can also create extra field groups for ingredients that maybe you would need.I have some documents over at K2joom.com which might help you get started or feel free to post more specific questions here, there are plenty of helpful users in the forums.SimonK2 Support

Many thanks for your reply.

I am now looking at it and came to think that it can be overwhelming many categories which can come in pull down menu on sight, but I have to try to get it to work as good as possible when I now want to use K2 for the task can be as low a standard template (document) which is set up to handle the recipes in K2?

-Henrik

Hi Robert, that would be one way of doing it, but it affects your core files and so would be lost when upgrading K2.

If you have setup your new K2 templates correctly, you will have also copied the generic.php, which sits one level up from your new k2 template.

The only restriction, is that it will then over ride the default, but be common to all new K2 templates you create.

Hope that gives an idea.
Also, check out my blog post regarding modifying the Tag results page.

Simon
K2 Support

I've figured out a "sort of solution" for this.

I altered the file com_k2/views/itemlist/view.html.php. Line 161 of this file is:

$this-&gt;setLayout('generic');

I changed it to:

$this-&gt;setLayout('tag');

Then, I copied the category.php file for my custom template to tag.php, and category_item.php to tag_item.php. Had to make some changes, mainly commenting out all the "if" statements that apply to categories.

Ok first of I know I have seen the this qeustion on the forum BUT I Can't FIND it! LOL so here it goes:I uploaded a K2 image gallery and it displays perfectly. However I want to be able to put the thumbnails somewhere else instead of the currenlty location which is below the extra fields and tagged under text.I want to place the thumbnails on the Rigth hand side of the Item Text thats inserte with the WYSIWYG editor. Or just somewhere else where it is more attractive than below all that extra items I added. any help on this would be great!Thanks in advance!Regards,Erik

On my site, I'm displaying articles both by category and by tag.When displaying by category, I've chosen a custom template in the category setup, and everything works fine. See, for example, thecanadian.org/k2-video  However, when displaying by tag, there isn't an opportunity to select a custom template, so I get the K2 default template instead. See thecanadian.org/stories/transportation-urban-planningThe best way to to this would be to provide a place to select the template when you create the k2 -> Itemlisting -> tag menu item.