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- dana murphy
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Okay - this will show my complete ignorance, but...
How the heck do you show multiple articles or modules on a page from a menu link? The menu link types are article or section but it's single article (which I don't want) or section which just gives me an (ugly) clickable list. Obviously I'm missing something basic since it's clearly done everywhere. Please take pity on me.
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- JEM
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The menu links to the Articles in Section or Category that you have created.
There are two basic types, Blog and List.
List will give you that (ugly) clickable list you're talking about...
Blog will give you a blog layout which you can configure while creating the Menu Item, or come back later to tweak it.
Modules are shown on the Menus you publsih them to.
You'll have to go to Extensions > Module Manager and click on each Module to see where it's published, publishing to Menus it's missing from or un-publishing from Menus you don't want it on.
When you make a new module, it's published to all menus by default and you un-publish from Menus you don't want it on.
HTH
Post back if you need more help..... - Thanks,
jim
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- dana murphy
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Thanks!! ;D
Okay, let me see if I got you.
I can create several modules (articles, etc.) position them in various template positions (user4, user8, whatever) and then assign them to that one menu page and then all of them will automagically show up on that page... So the only issue is how I make an article a module. I think I'm onto it.
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- dana murphy
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Okay - I'm back. I can get loads of modules to show up on a page and just assign each of them as custom html to get them to just be the text for the article, but...
They're modules. Modules don't have that nifty functionality that Articles do. That is, I cannot specify a "stop publishing" date for a module - or at least I haven't figured out a way to do that....
So... Can I either post lots of articles to template position or into a module and/or assign end dates to modules?
Help!! <g>
Thanks!
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- JEM
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Good news and bad news…
The good news is you understand how to make custom modules!
The bad news is that custom modules are not designed to work the way you had hoped.
Sorry, plain old custom modules were not designed for that type of behavior.
Let’s clarify:
Article = text saved as an Article in the Joomla hierarchy, Section > Category > Article.
article = any type of text, could be just a few lines of text, a news article, a recipe, advertising hooks, leaders, etc.
If you are going to place an article in a module position, it should be somewhat static, something you are going to publish in a certain position and leave it there for a while, or be prepared to be updating it whenever necessary…
An Article, published under a Section or Category, is the only thing that can take advantage of the cool features that Articles have, one being the ability to stop publishing.
But, all is not lost!!
You can publish Articles in a different type of Module and get that type of behavior.
This won’t work for a bunch of single articles you have published to several different Module positions, but it does work for groups of Articles in a single Module position. (E.g., RokNewsRotator, RokMiniNews, etc.)
So, if you have several different articles in several different positions, you’ll have to publish / unpublish manually.
If you have several Articles that can share a position, you can use a different type of module to publish them and take advantaged of the features assigned to Articles.
If this is something you might want to try, let us know what template you’re using and perhaps we can suggest a solution. - Thanks,
jim
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- dana murphy
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I'm using Catalyst (1.5) and I almost don't care what module position they show up in. User 8 or user 1 would probably be fine as it's to the right of the left menu. What I'm doing currently to get around this (and maybe it's what I'll end up using - not sure) is blog style section/category listings. What I don't like about this is that it looks fine if you link to it from the menu item, but not from the Classes bouncy thing in advert1 (no menu, no showcase...) and I don't know why. So, I'd rather have some way to publish them all to a specific module position and be able to control how it looks always not just sometimes.
If you want to see it, it's here: www.cnti.biz
Right now, it's in the early development stage so there's little content except my lame placeholders, but you can see the behavior.
Thanks,
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- JEM
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If you decided to use some type of Module to display your Articles, User 8-12 are tabbed, so you'd want to use User1.
I have a Catalyst site also, and I used the same technique that you've mentioned.
I think the reason you're seeing the behavior you've described is that you're linking to an article, and not a menu item.
You could:
Create a Section or Category
Place the Articles that you are linking to under that Section or Category
Create a Menu, for example Advert Articles
Relink the Articles linked from the Adverts
After you link the Articles, you can unpublish the Advert Articles Menu
You can see the behavior here: www.spoon-full-of-sugar.com/joomla_1/
Click on the 'Read more...' link in the Home Module. - Thanks,
jim
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- dana murphy
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You're a genius. Thank you.
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- dana murphy
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- So, is there some way to link to a menu item without going to it and copying its URL from the location field? I had been copying the link in the URL field on the page, but that's the article's URL, not the Menu Item URL, right?
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- dana murphy
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And now I'm realizing that what you seemed to be saying in your earlier post is that the only way to do it is to link to a blog list by section or category. There's no way to directly assign 15 articles to user 1, right?
Sorry if I'm being dense. You've been great.
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