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Kannan Naidu Venugopal
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12 years 2 months ago #101062 by Kannan Naidu Venugopal

Controlling K2 plugin appearance area was created by Kannan Naidu Venugopal

Hi Guys,

I have a custom plugin for K2 that displays contact details, social media urls and a small logo, at the moment the plugins display here (K2AfterDisplayContent) - item view :-

					
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12 years 2 months ago #101063 by Lefteris

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Hi. K2 provides several hooks for K2 plugins. So you can pick one of them. Also you can move the events around inside the layout depending on your needs. Finally all the plugin events are passing the item object by reference. This means that you can add custom properties in the item object depending on your needs. Then you can access those properties in the layout file.

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12 years 2 months ago - 12 years 2 months ago #101064 by Kannan Naidu Venugopal

Replied by Kannan Naidu Venugopal on topic Re: Controlling K2 plugin appearance area

Hi Lefteris,

Thanks for the reply, i will use the other hooks for the plugin. However, is it possible the use the <field> instead of the <param> to show the backend form in the plugins tab ?

If i use this, it shows....

					
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12 years 2 months ago #101065 by Lefteris

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Unfortunatelly, the JForm fields are not supported by K2 plugins. But you can define an element and have any field you like by doing something like:

<params group="item-other" addpath="/plugins/k2/yourplugin/elements">
<param name="yourElementName" type="yourElementType" label="XXX" description="XXX" />

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12 years 2 months ago #101066 by Lefteris

Replied by Lefteris on topic Re: Controlling K2 plugin appearance area

The above assumes that you have some knowledge about how to define form elements. If not you can take a look at exisitng elements bundled with K2 under /administrator/components/com_k2/elements

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12 years 2 months ago - 12 years 2 months ago #101067 by Kannan Naidu Venugopal

Replied by Kannan Naidu Venugopal on topic Re: Controlling K2 plugin appearance area

Hi Lefteris,

Thank you very much, unfortunately i still have a lot to learn :D

i'm using a different method now to display the image, extra work and it works.

Thanks again.

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11 years 24 minutes ago #101068 by Jacqueline

Replied by Jacqueline on topic Re: Controlling K2 plugin appearance area

Hi,

I encounter this kind of problem. In my k2, I have installed k2 Store and k2 Link Items. and it displays in the same area with the events <?php echo $this->item->event->K2AfterDisplay; ?> ..

I want to move k2 Link Items in a different area in my page. How did you manage to do it? please help.

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