Ok, I first used K2 a few months back on a website that I was creating and I really liked the functionality and ease of use.  I am now using it on another site but tapping into more of the functionality of it now.  I've ran into two things that I do not if they are Bugs or Limitations.Question 1:  I have created an Extra Fields group and started creating my Extra Fields.  I have a total of 17 fields but only 15 are showing up.  The odd thing is it's not displaying two fields nested in the list so I'm not sure why they are not being displayed.  I could understand if there was a limitation and it just stopped display fields after it hit the limit so I'm not sure what is going on here.Question 2:  There is the appearance that you can change the order of fields but the option is grayed out.  Is this by design?  Am I missing something?Any help would be greatly appreciated.Thanks,Mike

Sorry, I have an additional question. Is it possible to have the Extra Fields displayed across four columns instead of two?

Thanks again,

Mike

Hello "Mike"..
If not yet, just upgrade (install overrides) to the latest stable K2 v. 2.2.
Or, Back up and make a fresh install again.
I have no problems with what you asking above.

Thanks

Hi Mike,

I think this is a "special feature" as I am using V2.2 on K2joom.com but I can not change the order of the list, either manually entering a new value or using the up/down buttons. Besides, there is no save either.

I have 21 extra fields and all 21 show up, fyi in your example it shows 16 but you say only 15 appear ;)

You would need to change some core files to allow exta columns to be displayed too.

Ok, just upgraded but no go. There are Extra Fields still not displaying and the ordering option is still grayed out.

Followeyes said:Hello "Mike".. If not yet, just upgrade (install overrides) to the latest stable K2 v. 2.2.
Or, Back up and make a fresh install again.
I have no problems with what you asking above.

Thanks

Ok, I've added a total of 38 fields but only 34 are displaying in the front end.

K2Joom said:Hi Mike,
I think this is a "special feature" as I am using V2.2 on K2joom.com but I can not change the order of the list, either manually entering a new value or using the up/down buttons. Besides, there is no save either.

I have 21 extra fields and all 21 show up, fyi in your example it shows 16 but you say only 15 appear ;)

You would need to change some core files to allow exta columns to be displayed too.

K2Joom said:Hi Mike,
You would need to change some core files to allow exta columns to be displayed too.


I think Mike means frontend display for extra fields so there is no needs to change any core files, just some CSS customization.

Rgds

Update. I have used phpMyAdmin to view the ExtraFields table in SQL and it looks good. All the fields show and the public value is set to 1. Not sure where to look next. Oh and I have 36 fields not 38 and it's still those 2 field from earlier that are not showing.

Why doesn't ordering work? Seriously, this should not be a special feature and it looks built. Is there a trick to get extra field ordering to work? It's pretty important that this work.

Finding quite a few bugs: image gallery plugin does not work, front-end editing is messed up reversed right to left, and can't order important fields. Please tell me these things are fixable. Otherwise, I might have to go to those "other" guys jseblod.

Buddy

Anyone else have any ideas on troubleshooting the missing fields?

Hi Buddy,

Just a comment on the items you listed as not working.

Image Gallery can work, there are various threads about this and some working examples. To be honest, I am still trying to get it to work, however, as K2Joom is running a heavily modified version of K2, it is likely that some changes may be the root cause of out trouble.

The Right to Left issue, there is a fix, see here.

Extra Fields ordering. This has been reported as a bug and as a feature request and should be added for fix in next release.

Hope that helps.

k2joom.com


Buddy Q said:Why doesn't ordering work? Seriously, this should not be a special feature and it looks built. Is there a trick to get extra field ordering to work? It's pretty important that this work.
Finding quite a few bugs: image gallery plugin does not work, front-end editing is messed up reversed right to left, and can't order important fields. Please tell me these things are fixable. Otherwise, I might have to go to those "other" guys jseblod.

Buddy

Hi Mike,

I have spent a bit of time creating fields and groups, removing etc and can't seem to loose any.
Can I suggest you PM with backend login details, so I could take a look?

regards,

k2joom.com

Mike Feaster said:Update. I have used phpMyAdmin to view the ExtraFields table in SQL and it looks good. All the fields show and the public value is set to 1. Not sure where to look next. Oh and I have 36 fields not 38 and it's still those 2 field from earlier that are not showing.

Thanks, I will do that.

K2Joom said:Hi Mike,
I have spent a bit of time creating fields and groups, removing etc and can't seem to loose any.
Can I suggest you PM with backend login details, so I could take a look?

regards,

k2joom.com

Mike Feaster said:Update. I have used phpMyAdmin to view the ExtraFields table in SQL and it looks good. All the fields show and the public value is set to 1. Not sure where to look next. Oh and I have 36 fields not 38 and it's still those 2 field from earlier that are not showing.

Just sent you a friend request.

Mike Feaster said:Thanks, I will do that.

K2Joom said:Hi Mike, I have spent a bit of time creating fields and groups, removing etc and can't seem to loose any.
Can I suggest you PM with backend login details, so I could take a look?

regards,

k2joom.com

Mike Feaster said:Update. I have used phpMyAdmin to view the ExtraFields table in SQL and it looks good. All the fields show and the public value is set to 1. Not sure where to look next. Oh and I have 36 fields not 38 and it's still those 2 field from earlier that are not showing.

Your question 2:
I do not know if you resolved this, but I can order K2 extra fields from backend just fine (using K2 2.2).
However I have to sort extra field list by "Order" column first, otherwise the whole column is grayed out and order cannot be changed (in backend). I do not know if you referring to that or something else. Even order on website is correct, exactly as I set it in backend.

About your question 1:
I would try to recreate those 2 extra fields and delete old ones... my 17 fields work fine.

AHHHHHH!!!!!!! Yes, now I see. I think this is a minor bug but you're right. Once you hit to the table header "Sort" it will activate the greyed out sorting buttons!! Fantastic! Thank you!

BUddy

Rastislav Klc said:Your question 2: I do not know if you resolved this, but I can order K2 extra fields from backend just fine (using K2 2.2).
However I have to sort extra field list by "Order" column first, otherwise the whole column is grayed out and order cannot be changed (in backend). I do not know if you referring to that or something else. Even order on website is correct, exactly as I set it in backend.

About your question 1:
I would try to recreate those 2 extra fields and delete old ones... my 17 fields work fine.

About extra fields not showing, I think I have found the problem, and partially the solution
I'm using K2 version 2.0 as I need front end editing with Joomfish enabled

It seems that if you create an item and later create the extra field, it won't show up. If the creation of the field is before the item creation, it works.
Changing the item creation date to a later one (after the extra field creation) did succed to some of my items, but not to all, that's why I'm stuck...if I make a copy of the item that is not showing the extra fields, it works, but I can't duplicate the entire site at this point!!

any ideas?

Hmmmm.... I will have a look at this also. See what I can find. I'm waiting for K2Joom to accept my request so I can provide him with credentials to my site.

Juan said:About extra fields not showing, I think I have found the problem, and partially the solution I'm using K2 version 2.0 as I need front end editing with Joomfish enabled

It seems that if you create an item and later create the extra field, it won't show up. If the creation of the field is before the item creation, it works.
Changing the item creation date to a later one (after the extra field creation) did succed to some of my items, but not to all, that's why I'm stuck...if I make a copy of the item that is not showing the extra fields, it works, but I can't duplicate the entire site at this point!!

any ideas?

Well I did not see where you could modify the date so I went ahead and added a new Item and one of the fields now appears but the one is still now showing. I've provide K2Joom access to the site so hopefully he will be able to determine what the issue is.

Juan said:About extra fields not showing, I think I have found the problem, and partially the solution I'm using K2 version 2.0 as I need front end editing with Joomfish enabled

It seems that if you create an item and later create the extra field, it won't show up. If the creation of the field is before the item creation, it works.
Changing the item creation date to a later one (after the extra field creation) did succed to some of my items, but not to all, that's why I'm stuck...if I make a copy of the item that is not showing the extra fields, it works, but I can't duplicate the entire site at this point!!

any ideas?

you can modify the date of creation of the item when editing, it in the right panel with all its properties, or you can do that directly on the database...still don't know why it worked for some items and not for all

Mike Feaster said:Well I did not see where you could modify the date so I went ahead and added a new Item and one of the fields now appears but the one is still now showing. I've provide K2Joom access to the site so hopefully he will be able to determine what the issue is.
Juan said:About extra fields not showing, I think I have found the problem, and partially the solution I'm using K2 version 2.0 as I need front end editing with Joomfish enabled
It seems that if you create an item and later create the extra field, it won't show up. If the creation of the field is before the item creation, it works.
Changing the item creation date to a later one (after the extra field creation) did succed to some of my items, but not to all, that's why I'm stuck...if I make a copy of the item that is not showing the extra fields, it works, but I can't duplicate the entire site at this point!!

any ideas?