Hi Folks

I'm new to Joomla and even newer to K2. That said, I've looked for an answer to this on this site and Googled extensively, but cannot find the solution.

I am familiar with creating custom parameters in Menus in Joomla! 2.5 and have done so many times. For example, I can achieve my own category parameters by placing the params in /templates/mytemplate/html/com_content/category/mycategory.xml, and the matching mycategory.php is in the same directory.

How will I achieve a similar thing in K2? I have come to understand that the overriding mechanism is different in K2. I have my own custom category view in /templates/mytemplate/html/com_k2/mycategory/category.php. Now I need the Menu item that points to this category to have an additional setting parameter to be passed to this view.

So copying category.xml into this directory from /components/views/itemlist/tmpl doesn't appear in the settings list, and I've tried copying it to /templates/mytemplate/html/com_k2/itemlist along with the blank category.php, and again this doesn't work.

Am I missing something ovbious?

Thanks in advance

Mik

Hello Mik,

You need to read the documentation first.
K2 follows Joomla!'s MVC pattern for overrides.

This post will help you: getk2.org/documentation/tutorials/174-templating-with-k2-and-the-concepts-of-sub-templates

and this as well: nuevvo.com/blog/item/84-k2-inheritance-sub-templating

Finally you should watch these videos about K2 to help you setup your categories: getk2.org/documentation/k2class2012