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[hamedt Friend hamedtJoin date: October 2009Posts: 3Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#156857

How can I use K2 category through JA Slideshow II?
I couldn’t select K2 category to show K2 items in JA Slideshow II.

[Sherlock Friend SherlockJoin date: September 2014Posts: 11453Downloads:0Uploads:88 Thanks: 221 Thanked: 2478 times in 2162 posts]

#364639

Dear hamedt,

At the current version of slideshow2 module,it is not supported to get sources from k2 contents,i hope this could be updated in the near future.

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[webkul Friend webkulJoin date: December 2010Posts: 2Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#367284

thanks for posting gr8 comment

[adurst Friend adurstJoin date: December 2010Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:2]

#369135

A bit disappointing since the themes it is advertised/supplied with…boast K2 integration.

I bought JA Socail for the design/K2 integration…can’t say I’m not disappointed.

[Arvind Chauhan Moderator Arvind ChauhanJoin date: September 2014Posts: 3835Downloads:74Uploads:92 Thanks: 1240 Thanked: 1334 times in 848 posts]

#369285

HI adurst,

JA Social supports K2 and the same is highlighted in the last menu item of the JA Social demo.

Supporting 3rd party component not necessarily means that, each and every extension will also support the same. Though we have updated most of our extensions to support K2 too and over the period we are upgrading our remaining extensions also for the same.

Template integrates with K2 or JomSocial or Virtuemart >> means, it has special style for these components, not feasible to re-develop the complimentary extensions to support all the 3rd party extensions.

Arvind

[mcongosto Friend mcongostoJoin date: December 2006Posts: 28Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#379461

<em>@adurst 211514 wrote:</em><blockquote>A bit disappointing since the themes it is advertised/supplied with…boast K2 integration.

I bought JA Socail for the design/K2 integration…can’t say I’m not disappointed.</blockquote>

I agree, this is very disappointing.

Are there plans to integrate slideshow with k2?

[jeffreyd00 Friend jeffreyd00Join date: October 2006Posts: 46Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanks: 3]

#387139

Guess I found my answer to a post I just created… again, very dissapointing. Please update to support K2.

[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

#387143

The problem here is that K2 does not use the normal Joomla database system. It uses it’s own database tables and structure making it very difficult for this component to be modified to support K2. It would take quite a substantial amount of work to make this possible.

Ther are some K2 specific slideshow components available in the JED that should fit the bill though.

[jeffreyd00 Friend jeffreyd00Join date: October 2006Posts: 46Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanks: 3]

#387144

Phill,

Thanks for the explaination though still when a customer pays $400 or so for a 1 year membership they kinda expect a template that features K2 support to have the modules work wiht it too.

I have looked for about 1 hour in JED with no luck. If you can point me to something that will support K2 articles and K2 videos I would be very appreciative.

[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

#387149

As Arvind says, not all components can be made to work well with K2. It is mainly down to the way K2 works. I understand it is a pain. Most other ccks use the normal Joomla content so it would work. The template overall does support K2 well.

Try this maybe – http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/extension-specific/k2-extensions/12405

I do not use K2 myself so it is hard to recommend anything.

[jeffreyd00 Friend jeffreyd00Join date: October 2006Posts: 46Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanks: 3]

#387156

So the brilliance of K2 is it’s actual downfall too? Seems there is no winning. 🙁

I thank you for taking the time to respond. Not everyone does, and for the suggestion. I will check it out.

[modernmagic Friend modernmagicJoin date: December 2011Posts: 58Downloads:1Uploads:10 Thanks: 4]

#443909

Its now March 2012. Is there any update on when your extensions will support k2?

Rockettheme has extensions like Rokstories that also use K2 content.

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[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

#443939

Sadly JA SLideshow will not support K2 but many of our other extensions do. You can still use the from images feature and link to articles but as far as I am aware there are not plans to add a feature to JA Slideshow that will pull articles directly from K2. Setting it up with the “From Images” method will work.

Many of our other extensions will pull articles from K2 such as the JA Content Slider.

[modernmagic Friend modernmagicJoin date: December 2011Posts: 58Downloads:1Uploads:10 Thanks: 4]

#443940

Bummer. I can’t find “JA Content Slider”. Do you have a link so I can check it out?

[Phill Moderator PhillJoin date: February 2014Posts: 7013Downloads:40Uploads:77 Thanks: 917 Thanked: 2206 times in 1818 posts]

#443943

It is not a slideshow sadly. It can be seen in the Kranos demo amongst others. The JA News Featured can also pull from K2 as seen in the Teline IV demo.

I did ask the devs about makind JA Slideshow work with K2 and sadly it would take a major re-write but we do have the option to pull from images and link to K2 items so from the users point of view the functionality would be the same

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