after searching in a category property of K2 i get the results as default joomla com_search result page

 

I want that the search should display results like category view of category only. so either i will hv to get access to all the fields of the searched property. Can anyone tell me is there any easy way to display the search results just like the category view of items of k2 ???

You want to customize com_search to show the list of results with similar styling as you have in your category lists in K2, right?

Yes ... exactly.... Right it behaves like a default joomla search with just the item title coming being populated in search result......

 

Any way ?

All you have to do is to create a template override of com_search (Copy the folder search in components/com_search/views/search and paste it in templates/Your Template/html/com_k2/search) and customize the pages default_results.php, default_form.php, default.php.

Hmmm...well that sounds worth trying....I will get back as soon as i give it a shot.....Thanks a lot for the reply....

Between one more question I hope you won't mind?? when the K2 item is opened from backend by administrator then the creater ie the author changes to administrator..... Would be great if you can help me out with that as well.... :)

The author should not belong to Registered users because the registered users cannot have any rights to edit items, so they are not included in the author lists in the backend.

So it means I will have to change the registration type of joomla user ie user should register as type Author/Editior/Publisher.......I hope by changing that editing will not be affected from front end ???

Just Author group will suffice. It won't change anything in your frontend, no.

That was awesome......This two were hurdles to me in further development of my work... Thanks a lot...:)

I copied search folder from components/com_search/views/search to templates/Your Template/html/com_k2/search.....

Note:- There was no com_k2 folder within html....

 

Still i copied it...but what changes shall i do in the files you mentioned......Can you guide me more...Thnx