Hi again,

Using Search module (K2 Tools module), on kiji_Search position, I need my search results to go to an specific Search page, already created as a menu item, instead of showing the search results on the homepage, which is happening now.

I followed every config from the demo site without success on this matter.

Regards,
Felipe Z.

This is quite tricky.
The search layout does not have a separate view (menu item) so it will render through the current menu item.

This feature will be included in the next version of K2 but until then you can try this method:

Step 1: Create a new menu item
You first need to create a menu item for the results. For maintenance reasons and the sake of clarity I always create a search form or results menu item.
Hint: Leave the Search Term field empty.

Step 2: Copy its id
In this step you need to copy the menu item’s id. You can easily find its id since it is the last parameter in the URL.

Example: For a URL like site.com/administrator/index.php?option=com_menus&view=item&layout=edit&id=190 the id would be 190.

Step 3: The overriding part
If your template already has overrides for the K2 tools modules you can safely ignore this part.

If you read the K2 inheritance & sub-templating post by Yiota, you already know how easy it is to locate the files to override.
For those of you who didn’t read that post, this piece of documentation is quite helpful as well as Yiota’s post.
The K2 Tools module files are located in the /modules/mod_k2_tools/ folder and the file you need to override is search.php which is located inside the /modules/mod_k2_tools/tmpl/ folder.
Follow the same procedure which is described in these two posts and move this file in your template’s html/mod_k2_tools/ folder. Your final file structure should match the one in the following image.

Step 4: Now the coding (and final) part
As you might have already suspected, what we need to do is to make the form's action post in that particular menu item.
To achieve this you need to edit the form’s action attribute and append the menu item id you copied in step 2.
You need to change this line of code

Let me know if that worked.

Thanks Krikor, it worked!!
I have another problem now: the results page shows the whole article.
Several of my K2 categories don't have intro text; they are blog-like entries and I don't want intro text.

How can the search results page show only 25 or 30 words of every article?

I have the same problem with the front page. I need to include categories that don't have intro text but i can´t because it shows the whole article!

Regards,
Felipe Z.

Hello Felipe, I 'm glad it worked.

You need to read this post: getk2.org/community/English-K2-Community/192346-Show-featured-items-only-in-menu-page#192531


The file you need to change is located at templates/kiji/html/com_k2/default/category_item.php

Krikor, I have spent several hours trying to fix this without any luck.
Even on those K2 forum posts seems that the solution proposed didn't fix the problem.

1. One problem is to limit the words of the articles when using more than one category (on the front page).
2. And the other problem is to limit the words of the articles on the search results page.

Please if you could help me with this it will be incredible.

Regards,
Felipe Z.

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This actually a matter of K2 actually, not the template.
You need to use that snippet to replace the introtext tags.

You need to replace
with
in both category_item.php in templates/kiji/html/com_k2/default/) and in
generic.php (in templates/kiji/html/com_k2/).

useThe same applies to the tag.php and user.php files
20 is the word limit. You can also experiment with characterLimit which limits the introtext to characters.

PS. Backup all your files.

PS 2. This will force the limit on all category views. It is better to create a new K2 template for the homepage with only the new category_item file inside it.

Read this, it will help you, read it before you do any changes: nuevvo.com/blog/item/84-k2-inheritance-sub-templating

PS 3. Have a great weekend.

Thanks again Krikor, it worked great.
(Maybe, the option to set word limit for K2 category menu item, tags, and users, are some good features for K2 future releases).

Is there a way to show tags (or users) on an specific page? Right now, if I click on one tag from the tag module (or one user from the K2 tools - authors list module), it goes to the frontpage...
Or should I open a new question to ask this?

Regards,
Felipe Z.

Not really, You need to set a base menu item so all orphan tags are rendered through that menu item.

Take a look at this thread: github.com/joomlaworks/k2/issues/133

Incredible: so simple and effective! The solution even "override" our fix to search.php and now when clicking on tags, users or search module it goes to this "blank" menu item, which is excellent.

Felipe

I 'm happy it worked :)