Author link tutorial bug

Helo please, I follow this tutorial and can't make it to work: flexicontent.org/documentation/f ... uthor.html

1 - create category AUTORS
2 - create type of item AUTOR
3 - add an item called ME
4 - open your user in the Autors list and assing it to the ME item
5 - create a menu item and list all AUTORS ITEMS
6 - create the field in the tutorial
7 - remove all links fron the cateogry config so the items cannot be linked
8 - in the template autors put the field in any place exept in the read only
9 - refresh the page and there is nothing there not even the label.
10 - in the backend I get this error in the item: Either the query is not valid or it doesn't return any rows


From what I can debug:

SELECT id AS value, name AS text FROM # __users WHERE user_id="{item->created_by}"

USER_ID does not exist rigth? How can I fix this?

Also should the feature: "Hide in item form" be BOTH?

Also there is another error I think, should be:

index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=category&layout=author&authorid=

instead of:
index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=category&authorid=

please advice

yes maybe link should include
&layout=author

about hide in item form: no, do not hide this field, the field must be saved at least once with a value, so if you hide it , it will never have a value,

also for this field to work , existing items must be re-saved once ... so better create it before you add too much content to the site.

- in future, we will be adding a real custom field for this, so they will be much easier to use ...

All testes and worked like you said.

Please correct the tutorial, for us only worked with the correction in the URL.

Thanks.

Thanks for feedback, i have updated the FAQ article

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