Featured articles

Mon Dieu, mon ami. You are not adding the featured article to the table #__content_frontpage which is part of the query for the frontpage model of Joomla! to find featured articles.

Please add that insert query to the save article function.

Thank you!

Hello,
thanks for pointing out,
this is important for compatibility with featured view of com_content,

but you sound somewhat surprised ? please take time to see the amount of work on the component, by reading the SVN log:
code.google.com/p/flexicontent/source/list

(the J3.x support has been delayed, (mainly) because we want a bug free component despite and component's size and features)

but everything takes time, and it is true we did not get around to finding time to search for featured flag bu:
- mainly because we don't recommend using the featured or frontpage view of joomla (unless you already have important styling addition to them), instead you should use the FLEXIcontent category view (since we support multiple featured categories, which soon be easier to use ... read bellow ...)

-- FLEXIcontent can support multiple "featured" category ... and these changes are coming for v2.0.3 or v2.0.4/2.1 :

1. we are adding extra class in all content list (category,mcats, etc) templates and views in small container so that developers can easily style multiple types of featured articles/items or items for which user lack the required access level

<li ...>
<span class="fc_item_has_access"></span>
<span class="fc_itemcat_45"></span>
<span class="fc_itemcat_17"></span>
... item content
</li>
<li ...>
<span class="fc_item_no_access"></span>
<span class="fc_missing_level_access_4"></span>
<span class="fc_itemcat_45"></span>
<span class="fc_itemcat_17"></span>
... item content
</li>

2. Assignment to these "featured" categories is now done via a multi-select field "categories", but upcoming version will allow selecting these via separate checkboxes too ... like the featured flag

No aspersions intended! I appreciate all the work. I had migrated a site from 1.5 and retained the featured articles on the front page.

My surprise was that you are a coding God who must be all-knowing. :ugeek:

I try harder to go flexicontent all the way. I find the blog template good but I cannot find where to turn voting/favourites off. I tried to edit the template files item.php and item_html5.php but nothing changed.

What could I be doing wrong?

Thank you

directly in type

About voting:

FLEXIcontent uses a special Field which also configurable per content Type,

if as you say you cannot disable it, then it is not the FLEXIcontent voting field,
it is Joomla Content plugin for voting, please go to joomla plugin manager and disable it there

Joomla content voting plugin places it's code via the onBeforeDisplayTitle event (we have a such position in all our templates for compatibility) since about 2-4% of content plguins use these events (onBeforeDisplayTitle, onBeforeDisplayContent, onAfterDisplayContent)

Hello, in r1692 we

- fixed the item featured flag to be updated properly - and also allowed the access to the backend featured management view,
- added a quick icon into FLEXIcontent Dashboard too that open COM_CONTENT backend featured management view in a popup

The Use Joomla Featured Flag option on the configuration what it does? hide the Featured flag on the "basic" tab for item edit? Cause is not working

Hello

this is not used by FLEXIContent views,

-- it used in Joomla featured listing (if you want to use it, create a Joomla menu item of type "Featured ...")

-- FLEXIcontent has multiple "Featured" categories capability, which we recommend using

(select your top-level featured category inside component parameters at TAB "Featured and Markups")

please read a small description there

I see. I was thinking it was a way to remove the "Joomla featured" option to avoid confussion with the featured categories from flexicontent (that is the way we are using)

Regards

Hello

you can hide/ignore Joomla featured FLAG for frontend item form
-- configure in Component Settings (item form TAB),
-- and you can override for each Content Type (item form SLIDER)