Jacontentslider2 + k2 how to display most recent from multiple categories?

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  • robnob Friend
    April 16, 2012 at 2:03 am #176169

    Hi – I am using K2 I have a category such as MLB and subcategories under as red sox, Yankees, tb rays, angels, etc. when I use contentslider2 to display images and articles it won’t select the first most recent articles amongst all categories and instead selects the first 3 categories… Any suggestions? Sorry typing from iPhone

    robnob Friend
    April 17, 2012 at 3:32 pm #448750

    anybody? – dont be shy :laugh:

    Saguaros Moderator
    April 21, 2012 at 10:38 am #449489

    Hi robnob,
    May I know which version of Joomla you’re using?

    robnob Friend
    May 1, 2012 at 11:00 pm #450922

    Hi hien – I am using 1.5.25

    Saguaros Moderator
    May 2, 2012 at 7:46 am #450976

    hi robnob,
    Did you check Sort Order in Content Settings ?

    1. contentslider
    robnob Friend
    May 8, 2012 at 5:58 pm #452063

    Yes – but i have 50 or so different categories.
    I want the slider to show 3 of the “most recent” articles within the those 50 articles. Unfortunately, no matter how i edit the parameters i always get the first 3 categories articles.

    Is there anyway for it to check for the the 3 most recent amongst all the categories? Sorry – it sounds confusing.
    Thanks for your help.

    Saguaros Moderator
    May 9, 2012 at 2:47 am #452125

    Could you pm me a a temporary admin and FTP account in private message? I shall check it out.

    Saguaros Moderator
    May 23, 2012 at 4:39 am #454433

    Hi robnob,

    It will display only 1 article from 3 categories because in backend settings of this module, you only set maximum of articles for each category is 1

    So if you create 2 new articles in 1 category, it only takes 1 article from this category. Please change this value.

    1. contentslider2
    robnob Friend
    May 24, 2012 at 4:47 pm #454736

    Hi Saguaros – Thank you for taking a look.

    My only settings are –
    Number Articles Display:
    Max Artciles For Each Category:

    I would like to display 1 article (the most recent by create date) from 144 categories
    How would you do these settings?

    I’ve highlighted all the categories but not sure on the parameters… # of articles: 144? max articles for each category: 1?

    Thanks

    Saguaros Moderator
    May 25, 2012 at 1:49 am #454805

    Hi robnob,

    Number Articles Display means number of article will appear in the slider. If you want to show only 1 article, you should value for this parameter to 1. Then now the value of parameter Max articles for each category is not important now, you can choose a value which equal or greater than 1 because you only take 1 article displayed.

    Regards.

    robnob Friend
    May 31, 2012 at 2:06 am #455486

    Hi Saguaros – If below is true – it still does not resolve my issue.
    For example:
    I have 30 categories for all NBA Basketball teams (Alphabetical)
    I want to display the 3 most recent articles from all 30 categories.

    I cannot figure out how to do this… it will only display the first 3 articles from the first 3 categories alphabetical (so… atlanta hawks, boston celtics, charlotte bobcats) I know there are more recent articles in other teams. Any ideas?

    <em>@Saguaros 321983 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi robnob,

    Number Articles Display means number of article will appear in the slider. If you want to show only 1 article, you should value for this parameter to 1. Then now the value of parameter Max articles for each category is not important now, you can choose a value which equal or greater than 1 because you only take 1 article displayed.

    Regards.</blockquote>

    robnob Friend
    June 1, 2012 at 6:27 pm #455664

    Does anybody have any ideas?

    Saguaros Moderator
    June 4, 2012 at 4:30 am #455796

    Hi robnob,

    <blockquote>I want to display the 3 most recent articles from all 30 categories.

    I cannot figure out how to do this… it will only display the first 3 articles from the first 3 categories alphabetical</blockquote>

    I think there is no option for this. you can only display 3 most recent articles from these 3 categories if you choose to display only 3 categories. In case that you choose all 30 categories, you can choose to sort by:

    – Date: created date of articles
    – Ordering: order of article in category
    – Hit: hit count of article

    This module will display articles depending on above references NOT the order of categories.

    Hope you got the idea.

    robnob Friend
    June 4, 2012 at 5:52 pm #455929

    I’ve selected all 30 categories (all teams) from the Source (K2)
    I set my parameters
    Number Articles Display = 3
    Max Artciles For Each Category = 1

    But – the module displays the articles depending on the categories and not the ordering criteria (which is opposite from what you stated above)

    I need it to show me of the 30 categories selected which 3 articles were submitted most recent.

    <em>@Saguaros 323308 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi robnob,

    I think there is no option for this. you can only display 3 most recent articles from these 3 categories if you choose to display only 3 categories. In case that you choose all 30 categories, you can choose to sort by:

    – Date: created date of articles
    – Ordering: order of article in category
    – Hit: hit count of article

    This module will display articles depending on above references NOT the order of categories.

    Hope you got the idea.</blockquote>

    Saguaros Moderator
    June 5, 2012 at 2:26 am #455972

    Hi robnob,

    Please have a look at my previous reply in the 1st page, when you set: Max Artciles For Each Category = 1

    Suppose that you have 2 categories A and B, and 2 new articles in category A, if you set Max Artciles For Each Category = 1, it will display only 1 new articles from category A, please try to set to 3 and ordering by date.

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