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Where do I have to take care, when using FLEXIcontent?

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Do not use standard com_content and FLEXIcontent together. There are two reason for that: If you edit and article in standard com_content, you won’t update its extended datas. If you don’t unpublish com_content search plugins (content, categories, section) you will get duplicate results
Create at least one FLEXIcontent’s menu link to avoid for the route.php to work properly.
The section chosen for FLEXIcontent must contain at least one category with one article inside.
Be sure to unpublish the search plugin for Joomla search.content to avoid duplicate results.
To use the comments feature, install JComments component (www.joomlatune.com) Select and enable comments on the general configuration.
Duplicate and rename the default templates before changing them to avoid losing your adjustments on each component update. The templates can be found in:
components/com_flexicontent/templates
It is recommended to create an item template for each content type to avoid headaches for positioning and ordering fields.
If you use the FTP layer, be sure to open (chmod-R 777) the following directory:
components/com_flexicontent/libraries/phpthumb/cache

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-1 #1 Guest 2009-11-17 14:07

One important question please..
www.GAVICK.com/www.joomlaworks/www.joomla.org... have super free tools, modules & plugins out there.
Can I use it with FlexiContnet?

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0 #2 Emmanuel Danan 2009-11-17 19:22

Have a look to this page: http://www.flexicontent.org/features.html
This is Gavick slideshow used without any modifications ;-)
That means yes you can :)

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0 #3 TQ FeSys 2009-11-21 18:47

Thanks.. that nice Emmanuel

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+1 #4 Guest 2010-01-14 19:25

How well does FLEXI content work with Ccommunity Builder? Surprisingly I didnt find a reply to the post on this topic on the forum.

Does it work well with plugins that display content in tabs, slides and iframes?

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0 #5 Guest 2010-01-26 00:16

Same as Bassy, I would like to ask about Community Builder too, I don't see the content author tab showing the articles created in Flexicontent, of course the community builder plugin is rendering the com_content articles. Any one can help to solve this? Thanks!!!

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0 #6 Tony Black 2010-01-27 17:21

Silly question, how do I unpublish com_content in Joomla? I can't find it. Thanks.

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0 #7 Guest 2010-01-30 16:15

Quoting Tony Black:

Silly question, how do I unpublish com_content in Joomla? I can't find it. Thanks.

Hey Tony. Did you ever find out how to unpublish com_content? This remains a big mystery for me. I tried renaming the file com_content and my website went blank with an error message. Now I have a menu tab called FlexiCONTENT in my menu (left of home) and duplicates all over the place. Please enlighten me if you find out. I'm researching like hell and can't find the answer.

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0 #8 Tony Black 2010-01-30 17:45

Hi, sadly not. I guess the guys are busy or have moved onto other things? I notice a lot of questions that are not being answered. Shame really, it does put a huge hold our developemnt so we'll have to go elsewhere. Best of luck.

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0 #9 Guest 2010-01-31 19:22

@Tony Black and @galleryx - you can unpublish plugins or modules in the Extensions -> Module manager or Plugin manager

The tutorial says: "unpublish the search plugin" NOT the com_content.

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0 #10 Guest 2010-02-02 20:55

Why is this using yet another cache folder rather than the "global" one defined in J configuration?
It could store all it's caching data in a subfolder within /cache/flexi-foo-bar making it much more comfortable to dump any cached data.
Please rethink the design of this and don't make me pin a whole in my server's access rules :-)
I like the component a lot but this is a very annoying if not unnecessary prerequisite.

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