I thought that the WYSIWYG editor was stripping the pagebreak tags but even after disabling the editor the pagebreak tags just make no difference to the content in K2. i see no pagination in k2 articles. The only pagination i can see in K2 is on the item and category listings.

K2 has already outrun all other similar extensions for joomla but Pagebreak in K2 articles would really make it more useful.

here is what the developers have to say about pagebreak at the JED......
Pagination in content items
by lijoe on July 2, 2009
With what K2 is capable of doing, one can only give a positive feedback. I would request the developers to clarify if K2 supports pagination in content items. I have a few extremely long articles paginated in com_content. When i copy the same articles in K2, the articles appear without any pagination. It would be a real help if someone can tell me how to use pagination in K2 content items.

Owner's reply
K2 supports article pagination in both listing pages and inside the article page, by using the "page break" plugin. K2 parses all content plugins in Joomla! like native Joomla! articles do. :)

Hi All,

Firstly, just a quick message to say that im thoroughly impressed with K2 - it's great that someone has finally done this for Joomla!

Secondly - I've installed the latest K2 release (after first uninstalling the beta) and had a few errors pop up. It seems that the only plugin which i had to upload manually was the search plugin.
Although, I've now tried to make a gallery for an item; and all that appears is the opening and closing {gallery} tag with 1 between them? Any ideas?
I have SIG plugin installed (and turned on) so not sure whats happening?

I've been playing with K2 for use with the web based version of a local small newspaper.

ogdenindie.com/

Primarily about 6 Categories of articles, under parent category of Stories.

STORIES>Dining, Editor, Community, Arts & Music....

My question is how best to arrange them by issue, ie: July 2009.

I guess I could use tags but that's not really how I'd like to represent it. It would be better if it was an extra field.

In exploring this I seem to come up short. Ideally I'd like to have the following.

1) Extra Field that is select box
2) Ability to add new item to select box on the fly
3) Front End - Issue Text would be clickable, just like a category.

Perhaps this brings up the need for another type of element "group" that behaved similar to category. Or maybe ability to be in more than one category would solve this.

Just thought I'd put that out there to see if anyone had any better ways to handle this.

I looked at your link, but do not understand. How does adding a page break link up the article titles? The php code only has a simple echo command for the title. A pagebreak would not create an href tag.

In order to recreate the boxes around the subcategories we had to add a div id with its own custom style. We could not figure out how to do this without changing the css. Anyway, we might not have done this correctly, but our 2.0 site looks and feels like 1.0.

We have replicated it but it entails digging into the php and tweaking the css.

Set up a top level category. (in version 1 you could utilize a top level template. Here we have found you have to fake it) Assign your subcategories to the top level parent. There are other posts that tell you how to do this.

In the default php view (around line 60) delete the echo subcategories line.

You then have to make the title linkable. Strangely, the image is href'd to the subcategory, but the title is not. You have to add your own href tag. I would think a lot of these things will be made optional in future releases. We are making good notes on what we change so that we can upgrade.

In the css you have to create your own css in order to mimic the boxes around the subcategories.

On the path /components/com_k2/views/itemlist in files view.feed.php and view.html.php JText cannot replace the following texts because of the extra space appended:

'Displaying items by tag: '
'Search results for: '
'Items filtered by date: '

I found another one in the back-end in file view.html.php on the path /administrator/components/com_k2/views/extrafieldsgroup:

'Add/Edit Extra Field Group '

These strings remain English even after appending the space to the end of the definition of the language file.

This is because JText cannot translate strings ended with a space. Please open file /components/com_k2/views/itemlist/view.html.php in your editor.

Find the line below:

$title = JText::_('Displaying items by tag: ').JRequest::getVar('tag');

and replace it with the following code:

$title = JText::_('Displaying items by tag:').' '.JRequest::getVar('tag');

After refreshing the front-end, the 'Displaying items by tag:' string should be translated.

Thanks for your reply.

I have followed your instructions, but I didn't manage to translate the string.

The Debug says:
# C:\domains\pvdatilburg.nl\wwwroot\libraries\joomla\cache\handler\view.php

DISPLAYING ITEMS BY TAG:=Displaying items by tag:


So I copied DISPLAYING ITEMS BY TAG: to my nl-NL_k2.ini and I tried to translate it.
But it still doesn't work.

Now the title displays: ??Displaying items by tag: ??

Someone other ideas?

hi, sorry for my english, i'm italian.
i would know if in k2 v2 is possible menù like "Default (Frontpage) Layout"...when i go to create a new menù i can't see the option "Default (Frontpage) Layout" but there is in the precedent version!

i would see the home page with categories!!

EDIT:
in others words...
from the forum:
1. I can't recreate initial K2 frontpage, the beautiful way of displaying categories in multiple categories from first version of K2. Maybe because i don't have this option in menu?

K2

*
Item Layout
o
Item Layout
*
Item Listing Layout
o
Categories - this is what i use- show only items, no categories
o
Tag
o
User Page (blog)

I don't want items in frontpage, just categories i choose to display. How can i do that?

Ok, just to be clear.

I'm not getting gallery tags in my content, but they are in the database. For every gallery I have uploaded the tags are in the db, and so are the images in the /media/k2 folder

I also do not have clickable title tags, but don't see any params for that either so not sure if that is a feature of K2 although I thought I clicked a title early on. Not sure if this is related but it would be nice to solve that next!! :)

Someone Please Help me here. Don't know what to do at this point. This is the biggest issue right now on my first K2 site ready to go live!!

PROBLEM: Gallery Tags are not getting inserted into item content.

*Looks like permissions are OK,
*Looks like the images ARE on the server,
*SIG can load K2 gallery from a standalone call on regular joomla article,
*gallery tags ARE in the mysql tables, pointing at the correct gallery.

This is my item view page output. No gallery tags inserted at all. However they are in the mysql tables!

!-- JoomlaWorks "Simple Image Gallery PRO" Plugin (v2.0.4) starts here
ul id="sig82f90f2c6d" class="sig-container"li class="sig-clr">nbsp;/li/ul
!-- JoomlaWorks "Simple Image Gallery PRO" Plugin (v2.0.4) ends here

---

Directory Permissions
Check Result

media/k2 Writable
media/k2/attachments Writable
media/k2/categories Writable
media/k2/galleries Writable
media/k2/items Writable
media/k2/users Writable
media/k2/videos Writable
cache Writable

Thanks!!!

v2 again :) I have the simple gallery pluging installed, configured and enabled but still my articles are not bringing up the gallery images instead they are just showing the {gallery} tags

Also I have been editing articles using K2 and for some really odd reason one article inparticular keeps on causing formatting issues.

legh :D

The extra ACL in K2 is great, but for large sites like some of ours I would not like to increase the amount of user Admin except where necessary.

What would be really useful for us is to be able define the K2 groups, with their rights, and assign a few of these groups directly to the standard Joomla groups (like Editors for example). In doing this I would hope that K2 would select its list of users from jos_users (or synchronise some other way) so that we could maintain our users for these particular K2 Groups using the standard Joomla (and CB) tools.

We would then only need to assign users to particular K2 groups in special cases.

I can see other cases where we might want to do the same sort of user synchronization to DocMan groups too, and there are probably components that have Groups too.

NB: I understand that the whole ACL thing is challenging, and we all wait to see what 1.6 will actually include and how it will work .... but for now, the above would be a major advantage to us.

I have Item-List Views linked as main-menu items and I am trying to have tags display on the Item view but not the Item-list view. It seems that whatever I set for Item-list view (whether in K2 global params or menu item params) overrides the Item view settings. It appears that this is also the case for the email button and print button settings; however, this is not the case for the view intro text/view full text params.

Am I doing something wrong, can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks for some good tips/pointers so far.

I'm interested in learning if K2 is suitable to use for a property listing/real estate site - which is under redevelopment now - and how i could go about creating the necessary structure using K2. The current lack of documentation is understandable with K2 being new, but leaves me apprehensive about jumping into blind.

So far I've been using hot property to begin the redevelopment, which even with its most recent release still requires many hacks to achieve far less than K2 appears to offer - such as image slideshow, video, google maps, tabs for content display etc. On their own admission the development roadmap for HP is a long way off incorporating any of the features mentioned above. I've also looked at Com Property which has many very good features but... just not too sure about it.

Tim's & Jozef's explanations and comments give some guidance. The biggest concern I have is the ability (or my lack of it) in setting up the listings/categories etc to be searchable in a way that real estate sites tend to be. Any guidance in how K2 could achieve that would be welcomed. I'm assuming that the use of tags could assist in filtering results? Is it possible to make custom fields searchable from within K2?

Also, any info/suggestions on how to go about integrating listings with front page slideshow.

Kind regards
Mark

Hi again. The importer just copies the values so the bug you are dealing is really strange. After import, if you open an item for editing can you see the markup ? Also make sure that you are not using any tag or attribute stripping options of K2.

Hi,

i have in all com_content Items, example:at the bottom of the content, 1 or 2 Links to other sites...

when i import them via K2 Importer i loose some Links in the content...

When an article has only intro text the links will loose the a Tag and display as normal text.

Also i loose all Images in the content items after import...

K2 V2
Joomla 1.5.11

Same if i moving categories than they not visible, but when i restart the admin session they are there.

Thomas

What version of K2 and Joomla are you using?

The titles of the Module Parameters are all called 'Tag Cloud Settings'.

Screenshot attached