Blank Page disappears with theme override

snaffle

Hi there,

I'm trying to setup the JA K2 Filter module for the first time but I can't get the "Blank Page" settings (see attached) to work with the "ja_k2filter" theme.

As soon as I enable the theme in JA K2 Filter options, the content I have set for Blank page doesn't appear, including the search module which I'm loading through there.

If I set it back to Default then the Blank Page content displays.

Any ideas?

Thanks

saguaros

snaffle

Could you try to disable the override for K2 filter in template first?

I just tried at my end but the blank page still works fine with 'jak2filter' theme.

snaffle

Hi saguaros,

I'm not sure I understand as I haven't actually done any code overrides as such, I've just followed the instructions here, on adding the jak2filter theme - https://www.joomlart.com/documentation/joomla-component/ja-k2-filter#custom-layout - and then I've selected it in the K2 Filter settings as per attached - I've not modified the files at all.

Whenever I do that, the Blank Page content disappears.

If I set it back to Default, then the Blank Page content appears.

Am I missing something?

Thanks

saguaros

snaffle It due to your override in template as I tried to assign Protostar template to that 'The ABR Education Portal' menu item and the Blank Content Page displays correctly.

By default, JA Aiga template doesn't override K2 component like in your site.

Kindly check again.

snaffle

Hi Saguros,

Are you talking about a K2 template override?

The Joomla template I am using is, JA Aiga, a Joomlart template... surely you're not saying that it's not compatible with your own component?

Thanks

Nathan

snaffle

I really don't understand how my other K2 template overrides have anything to do with the K2 Filter component when it's specifically been told to use the K2 template you provide??

snaffle

In any case, I can't just remove the K2 overrides, the whole site is using them.

Do you have any idea what in the overrides is causing the problem?

saguaros

snaffle

Our template should work well with K2 and JA K2 filter, of course.

What I meant was that the issue comes from your override for K2 in template, kindly check your override again.

Did you override by copying file from core folder of K2 or any other source?

snaffle

Hi Saguaros,

We currently have around 11 heavily customised K2 templates that use custom fields extensively as per the attached. So while they were originally copied from the K2 source folder, they have been changed significantly.

I still don't understand how any of those templates matter though when, as the instructions say, the "ja_k2filter" template is selected in the JA K2 Filter Component Options:

So shouldn't it be using your template override?

Thanks

Nathan

saguaros

Hi Nathan,

I thought you overrode K2 template.

You're right, there is issue with the JA K2 Filter theme for K2 component, I've reported to the team for further checking and get it fixed.

Regards

snaffle

Hi Seguaros,

Thanks for confirming the problem and for forwarding it on to the team.

For now I will try a workaround of using module positions above the body area of the page.

Will look out for an update version though... there's also a few user interfaces glitches in the component interface that they could probably have a look at too.

Thanks

Nathan

saguaros

snaffle I will update here when having news.

snaffle

Hi @saguaros

I've worked out what the problem with the ja_k2filter template override is... basically it's missing the code at the top of category.php page which displays the blank page content.

The correct code is found in the default component file which is in:

/components/com_jak2filter/views/itemlist/tmpl/category.php

and is:

<?php
	if ((!empty($this->blank_page) && empty($this->issearch)) || (!empty($this->blank_page) && !empty($this->blanktxt_after_search)))
		echo nl2br($this->blank_txt);
	if (empty($this->blank_page) || !empty($this->issearch)) {
		?>

plus the closing tag at the end of the file before the closing div tag:

<?php
}
?>

Once I added this to the category.php file in the template override, the Blank Page content displayed as expected.

Would be great if the Dev team could add this to the package available for download to prevent other people from wondering why it doesn't display.

Thanks

Nathan

saguaros

snaffle Thanks for sharing, the team are working on upgrading to Joomla 4 and it will be updated too.