FLEXIContent - v2.0.0 - final for J2.5 released (r1648)

hmm. it seems what this version in bad )
i also cant post new items with blank pop-up.
and it seems what "item" tab have wrong template - see "author" column with date choose under it.

but i can create article on com_content and bind it to flexi, so can try to test another things )

UPD:
the Favorites bug is still here - i favorite one article and steel have emptiness on list of my favorite content

Will try to find time to fix (late today) the bugs reported Atypicom & effrit

Regards

i think what now user (on fronend submission) can choose between categories from list what admin is selected before in submission settings:

flexicontent.org/forum/index.php?f=21&t=2218&rb_v=viewtopic

but still, when i (as admin), select 2 categories which in user can post items, he cant choose but just have simple text names of this categories.

this choose option (multiselect list required) is important if you have complex categories structure and want users can post in some categories they choose.

UPD
and if i edit from frontend my articles i have multiselect list with categories but it seems what changes didnt save

r853

BACKEND
1. undefined constant FLEXI_ADD_LABEL on save field without label (Russian lang)

2. remained
www.flexicontent.org/forum/index.php?f=2...opic&start=10#p18199

3. Order by Published on fields list sorts in one direction only

4. Category are not deleted

5. remained
linkslist.php string 90 replace $item to $val (or $vsyaka_byaka), else object $item destroyed.

6. when filling in the wrong "Field elements" (1::Yes%% 0::No%%)

7. remained on create new item.
replace to
8. Field "Related items" shows only the item is editable, and not other.

9. Published state not change on Fields List

FRONTEND

10. Field type "Date" causes error500 on frontend if field is filled, empty field error does not cause.

11. if email is filled incorrect.

12. replace in $this->category->name to $this->category->title.

Hi,

We're currently testing 2.0 Beta3 r853 on a fresh Joomla! 1.7, and I can't seem to do what I want.

We used to rely heavily on the old Section/Category framework in Joomla! < 1.5, and we turned to FlexiContent hoping it would get us back some of that functionality.

The main thing we want to be able to do is filter our top level categories separately from our nested categories.

When we create a new article, or view our articles in the main item table, our category tree is way too long to navigate efficiently.

In the previous version of Joomla!, we would just keep our Section dropdown selected to the top-level we were interested in, and the second drop-down would contain only a sub-set of the relevant categories that it contains.

Joomla! 1.6/1.7 made this impossible by allowing nesting categories, but only allowing you to see the entire list of categories at the same time.

In a word, this sucks.

Is it possible for FlexiContent to provide two different dropdowns for categories: one that 'only' shows top-level categories, and the the second that will 'only' show the nested categories as defined in the first drop-down?

FlexiContent looks pretty powerful, but to be honest, category management is why we are looking at using it, and I don't see it as any better here than with the core Joomla! admin tools.

I hope I'm just missing something. Please let me know if there's an easy way to organize multiple levels of nested categories.

Cheers

Arkadiy thanks for reporting,

Many of the bugs reported by you and other, require little time to fix. Some other will want more time.

I did not get time to fix them when i planned.

I will do tomorrow evening.

To yeahzoomzoom, Yes it is possible to show a category tree starting at a specific parent. I will examine this.

This can be done by adding a new task button at category manager called "Set as Base". Then you would select a category and click the task. Also a task button to return to top category.

Regards

To yeahzoomzoom, Yes it is possible to show a category tree starting at a specific parent. I will examine this.

This can be done by adding a new task button at category manager called "Set as Base". Then you would select a category and click the task. Also a task button to return to top category.

Regards

ggppdk
Core developer

Thanks for the fast reply!

This would be AWESOME if you could provide this functionality.

I have investigated every extension out there, and have not turned up any that attempt to restore the old Section/Category hierarchy functionality.

Cheers,

I just want to be clear on what I'm asking for to make sure we're talking about the same thing ..

I've added two quick mockups to give you the general idea.

In the item list, you would have two drop downs.

The Select Category drop down ONLY shows Level 1 Categories (it would also have an All Categories option to maintain the current behaviour)

The Select Sub-Category drop down ONLY shows nested categories that are children of the Level 1 category selected in the first drop-down.

By keeping the Include Subcategories checkbox, we would still be able to see a recursive list based on a higher level parent.

This functionality would then also be available when creating a new item (mockup also attached to this reply.)

Both of these selections would be persistent so that they don't have to be reselected for every new article we create.

Any other similar implementation would be interesting, I just wanted to illustrate as clearly as I could what our specific requirement is to make sure we're on the same page.

Does this make sense? Is this what you understood from my initial request?

Cheers!

Sorry, it looks like large images can't be scrolled when uploaded via this form.

I've attached a smaller version of the item-list proposal:

Cheers!

Interesting propose. +1