Possible to use for front-end content submission only?

First off, great component! I already posted a 5-star review on the Joomla Extensions site, in fact. Anyway, with that said, in order to save myself the time of (re)creating (for FLEXIcontent) the custom layouts and CSS I previously created for my site, I was wondering if it is possible to disable features/functions of the component that affect content display, link creation and interaction with SEF components. I understand that would seriously strip the extension down however, the main feature I need is the simple, permission manageable front-end content submission it offers. Would be great if a separate FLEXI extension was available just for content submission.

I find myself now rewriting style sheets/templates, reassigning modules to links (which doesn't always work so well when FLEXI takes over references to com_content, leaving article and category linking broken) and modifying how at least 3 other components (and plugins) I am using work because their functions depend much on how they interact with com_content.

Essentially, I would like to provide my site members access to post, edit and publish their articles to the categories I specify in FLEXI while still maintaining the look/style and current module assignments of my site. Can this be accomplished by disabling FLEXI features/plugins?

Thanks for any insight.

thegrindlab wrote: Essentially, I would like to provide my site members access to post, edit and publish their articles to the categories I specify in FLEXI while still maintaining the look/style and current module assignments of my site. Can this be accomplished by disabling FLEXI features/plugins?

1. You speak of module assignments
your module assignments do not work because the com_content menu item links are redirected to FLEXIcontent views, thus the menu items cannot be selected, thus the module assignments do not work.

See this small FAQ article
www.flexicontent.org/documentati ... items.html

-- essentially the menu items pointing to categories and articles need to be converted to be FLEXIcontent menu items,
-- then your module assignments will work without changing their assignments,
-- if you do not have many then you can change them manually or wait for v2.0a (very soon) which will have this automated.

2. The "look/style of your site" will be unchanged EXCEPT for the component area which will not be com_content but com_flexicontent, thus you will need to customize this,

-- but NOTE you need to only to customize a single category and then copy the configuration to multiple categories via the copy params button, and only customize the Content Type of an item (e.g. the template parameters) and all items of this content Type will be affected

Thank you for the input. In my case, I have setup certain rules through Advanced Module Manager that include or exclude articles from categories I have specified. These rules are ignored after everything is converted to FLEXIcontent. These rules do not apply to menu items, only to com_content items. Is there a suggestion to overcome this? Also, is there a way to get all/most plugins written for com_content to work with FLEXIcontent?

Thanks again.

Author of AMM said to support FC v2.0 after the final version comes out, so i will contact him soon,

but you can use PHP code to achieve same result (last parameter of advanced module manager when editing a module)

e.g. FLEXIContent item view for items in categories 34, 56, 78 e.g. FLEXIContent category view for categories 34, 56, 78 e.g. in ALL FLEXIContent tags view e.g. in ALL FLEXIContent tags view
Also i have taken the opportunity to add this FAQ article:
Using Nonumber Advanced module manager with FLEXIcontent