Hi there,

I really hope someone can help me. I have a collection of items (articles) within K2. I have my main menu set up as well which has been set up using the native Joomla menu system.

If I click on a menu item on the front-end it shows me numerous items which have been assigned to the menu item using categories inside K2.

So for example, I have assigned 10 items to a category named 'cars', and have set up a menu item called 'cars'. When clicked, it uses K2 to fetch all of the items assigned to cars and display them in a blog-style layout (1 column for the first item, 2 columns after that etc.)

However, I only want the headline and a thumbnail to be shown for each item, not all of the content.

I tried to alter the way the content is laid out when clicking a menu item by doing this:

1. I went to Menus --> Main Menu in the native Joomla menu section, and then selected the menu item I wanted to edit ('cars' in this case)
2. Once inside the 'cars' menu item I clicked on the 'options' tab inside the menu item edit screen. This shows me all of the K2 options I can change such as 'leading count' etc.

However, the system will not let me edit the options shown, or won't save what I change. If I try and select the 'leading count' input field I just get a 'no access' symbol and cannot change the setting. The template is set to 'default' and there are no other options.

I just want a user to be able to click the 'cars' menu item and a list of each item is shown by headline and a thumbnail, and all 1 column wide stacked on top of each other.

If anyone can help me I would be very grateful.




Can anyone please help me. I want to set the layout so that the content is just listed a 1 column, stacked on top of each other, and I only want the names of the item t be shown when someone clicks on the navigation bar.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Hello,

The options you are looking for are located in the category's settings.

Hi there,
Thank you so much for your reply, I really appreciate it.

Could you please expand a bit more as I am not clear on how I can alter the categories? - if I go to the list of categories and then click the 'options' button top right, it just takes me to the article set-up?

I'm assuming that is not what you mean, so if you could please let me know how to reach the part I need I would be truly grateful.

Hello,

These videos will help you set up K2's settings.
getk2.org/documentation/k2class2012

From getk2.org/documentation/k2class2012/860-setting-up-a-basic-blog and onwards you can see how categories are being setup.