Im wondering if it can really be true that it's not possible in any way to change how your item is presented, without having to fiddle with code that, to be honest, i started to use joomla to prevent entirely.

There are many paramaters in both the item and category view that will "change" the way the item is presented.
The k2 templates or overrides control the order in which they are presented, and you can move that around, insert tabs, and other things by working with the appropriate blocks of code in item.php and category_item.php You also have the text field where you can do just as any normal j article

To me being able to decide how all the items information is displayed on the site is an absolutely fundamental feature, but in K2 i seem to be limited to "Extra fields - hide/show"...

The default behavior is for all the fields to show along with the field names, and if there empty they dont display. You can hide all of them. Many times you will need to use the overrides to display extra fields in a custom place. this requires php

A good example of cars with k2 is at joomcar.net/k2ef-demo using a custom module with k2

Hi there, I've downloaded the component and started working through the training video's, and must say I like the look of K2 enough to want to purchase both the story and multi-category components. Before I do, however, I would like to make sure that these will in fact do what I need as per my questions below:


a) I need to be able to create custom form and article layouts for users to submit articles in the frontend. These articles (in various categories) will not be available for the original authors to edit so I'm looking for
Article in Category A to have a specific layout, B a specific layout, C.... The form should simply be the means to capture the information I need displayed in a pre-specified layout as a Joomla / K2 article.

b) I have a specific need for a review site that works as follows: Authors / publishers submit a review request (specific form) together with upload of their e-book. Public can submit request in the frontend.
These are then saved to articles with a download file (which only allows one download, and hopefully can record who downloaded). Reviewers log in on front end and access article management, can then edit the article to add their review and rating (two extra fields needed here). The finished article then displays in the relevant categories (need multiple categories for the reviews). ONLY reviewers have access to view and edit the articles in the middle step. Thereafter only admin can edit or delete, once review is finally posted, but the articles are available for public view.

c) categories and multiple categories. I realise that there are going to be overlaps in categories. e.g. The reviews section will have the same sub-categories as the bookstore section, e.g historical, western. and books will also belong to more than one category e.g. both historical and western. I'm concerned that same sub categories will cause conflicts, or that searches in bookstore categories will bring up review categories. This might not necessarily be an issue (if reviews are available for books in the bookstore) but could be a problem if the search brings up review requests which are in the "middle phase". It is imperative that only reviewers (and only one reviewer per book) may download these books in order to review them.

These are my basic queries and I would be most grateful if someone could assist. I am desperately trying to complete the site as soon as possible and would like to purchase what I need today if possible.

Many thanks
Jude

Eduardo wrote: 2.6.1 update:


1) Problem remains when saving an article in frontend:
Fatal error: Call to a member function getSearchValue() on a non-object in /home/.../public_html/administrator/components/com_k2/models/item.php on line 721

2) Extra-fields are not showing when the Category is selected - SOLVED

3) Cpanel.php problems (error on backend, can't change order ir the file is deleted). The error is gone. I don't know if the change order being blocked (grey) is indeed an error, because you can activate it by clicking in "Order", but for people who have lots of items, this is not easy at all to modify.

4) Facebook problems, HTML as it was text, still the same: See Post Problem remains

5) Extra fields simply don't work anymore.

2.6.1 update:


1) Problem remains when saving an article in frontend:
Fatal error: Call to a member function getSearchValue() on a non-object in /home/.../public_html/administrator/components/com_k2/models/item.php on line 721

2) Extra-fields are not showing when the Category is selected - SOLVED

3) Cpanel.php problems (error on backend, can't change order ir the file is deleted). The error is gone. I don't know if the change order being blocked (grey) is indeed an error, because you can activate it by clicking in "Order", but for people who have lots of items, this is not easy at all to modify.

4) Facebook problems, HTML as it was text, still the same: See Post Problem remains

Edit: Ok, I'll compile 2.6.0 erros so far:


1)
Fatal error: Call to a member function getSearchValue() on a non-object in /home/l ... /public_html/administrator/components/com_k2/models/item.php on line 721

I get this error every time I try to edit an article (when saving it). It's very frustrating...

2) Extra-fields are not showing when the Category is selected.Only when the article is saved, but as stated, then you can't edit it anymore.

3) Cpanel.php problems (error on backend, can't change order ir the file is deleted): See post

4) Facebook problems. See post


I would say everyone to DO NOT UPGRADE YET! It was a lot of issues.




PS: I had to create a new account because I wasn't able to post here with the old one, it always said:

-post-: Category has been locked.

hi,im using joomla 2.5 with k2 2.5.7.
and for the question:
is it possible to have more than 1 main field in an article?
i mean i need to have 4 or 5 article fields with different border styles in 1 article.
for example 1 field for a description with a 1px border with red color , the second field for another description with a different border color and so on.its like what zoo cck does,with zoo we can make as many text fields as we want in a single article.
the default k2 gives me only 1 main field for the intro text and 1 for the main text and 1 for extra field.but i want more fields ,thats it, i hope i could tell what i meant.
btw for an example of what i need here is a sample page (in another language and i guess its wordpress).look at the fields :

tafrih.ir/place/padideh-shandiz

thanks for the help in advance.

Jarno Seppänen wrote: Hi!
I try to embedd that code...
<iframe src="rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=itstescom-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B004M8RPBI&ref=tf_til&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0">
it's a picture link to Amazon online store. (affiliate ads).
I can't embed that link, I bought JCE Editor and iframe plugin and I can add iframes everywhere except extra field. Is it possible that K2 allow that iframe tags everywhere but not in extra fields. So can anyone help me.

Hi everybody,
this is my first post...
...no one can help us??

Hello!

I have to come back to my original problem, beause I could not solve it till now.

What I need is to display a list of items gruped grouped by categories, as you can see below. Using extra fields!

======================================================

<h2> Title of category 1.1 </h2> (order by "default")
..........<h3> Title of Item 1 in this categorie </h3> (order by "title - alphabetical")
....................+ item Body
..........<h3> Title of Item 2 in this categorie </h3>
....................+ item Body


<h2> Title of category 1.2 </h2>
..........<h3> Title of Item 1 in this categorie </h3>
..........<h3> Title of Item 2 in this categorie </h3>

======================================================

What I lerned till now is that the last-item-view can display items grouped by categories,
BUT it can not display extra fields,
and the category-view can display extra fields but can not dispay items grouped by categories.

The best way, I guess, might be to modify the category-view (categories.php), incorporating parts of latest.php. Or may bee it is easier to make extrafields to be displayed in last-items-view?

I understand that it is quite tricky, would be greate if someone could find out how to.

Thank you!

@Julian

You cannot do this. The reason we do not offer that functionallity is that we store extra fields in JSON format. This means that in order to sort items, you need to first get all items, then get their extra fields and then sort them using PHP. This is something that is not supported in K2.

Hi Piotr,

thanks for your answer and for your efforts.

I looks like this extensions offers the possibilty to select or filter articles of a category according to the content of their extra fields. This is not exactely what I am searching for.

I have got a category containing more than 100 articles. Each article got a extra field called "Postal Code". This field contains the postal code of the association described in the article.

I would like to have a option to display the complete article list of this category sorted/ordered ascending by their postal codes (which are stored in a K2 extra field).

Any ideas?

Kind regards,
Julian