nouvelle version assigner flexicontent a une seule categorie

hello !

J'utilisais flexicontent avec joomla 1.5 pour une seule categorie bien précise.

Or il semble qu'apres la migration des donnees et la reinstallation sur joomla 2.5, cette option n'existe plus, on peut utiliser n'importe quelle categorie.

le probleme est que je ne souhaite pas associer flexicontent a tous mes articles, mais seulement a ceux de la categorie X

comment peut on remettre en place ce systeme ?

merci !

et du coup, lorsque je liste mes articles, j'arrive automatiquement sur le composant flexicontent sans les articles puisque je n'ai encore rien associé.

Comment faire pour :
- avoir flexicontent seulement sur une categorie
- utiliser le systeme joomla normal sur la gestion normale de mes articles ?!

merci !

This was not implemented in FLEXIcontent v2.0 for J2.5, it was done to avoid problems and complecations ... , so if you use FLEXIcontent for J2.5 you will have to use it for all categories and items ...

Regards

ufff, not a good idea to change this system...

now we have no choice to use or flexicontent or joomla system... not both for different purposes... will complicate a lot the management of items creations

well maybe it simpifies things because, you have a single interface to manage your content, plus you can do everything that com_content does and much more with flexicontent

e.g. homepage:
How to use an FC category as Homepage / Frontpage

e.g mutliple featured flags (via categories):
How to make multiple Featured Categories

- Create author views, my items view (via new type of FLEXIcontent menu items)

- of course all third parties com_content displaying modules work their just not aware of FLEXIcontent extra data, (but i strongly recommend using FLEXIcontent module, as it can do simple to very complex selections of items, and includes a very nice template for listing the items, sorry no slideshow template yet)

yes I do agree that flexicontent offers many interestings features.

but doing a migration brings a lot of change with this way of work...

would have been better to keep option to assign une category to flexi instead of forcing for everything.

There has been an another thread where this was discussed extensively.

It would create a lot more problem and complications that it solved, e.g. to change this would mean change 150 queries and problems/compications with ACL ... etc

It is feasible just not possible to do for this version. Various things would break for sure.

okok I understand...if I have new troubles implementing this new way of work, I'll let you know, for sure !

hello,

I think if you create a type without extracore field you have some joomla standard fonctionnality and interface.

migration from your old implementation seems not a problem.

You create

* a 'template' empty

* a 'type' without field but assignate to your

+ category formerly detached from flexicontent (in 1.5),

+ and previously template
you have restored your old joomla category content in 4 clicks
so I don't think separate joomla com_content and flexicontent it's necessary

thanks szallontai,

i may add this, do not bind the articles fields to any type ,

first create the new Content Type (e.g. 'Article Basic') that szallontai suggested, (with zero assigned custom fields), and then go back to item manager and click to bind the items selecting the new Content Type 'Article Basic'