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[totvos Friend totvosJoin date: July 2008Posts: 17Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#131616

Hello,

I recently started working with Joomla 1.5 and JA Iris. In playing with the Newsflash module, I found something weird. If I create a category, point Newsflash to it, and then add articles to that category from the front end, it works fine. However, if I add articles to that SAME category from the administrator, those articles are not cycled.

What is going on? I have looked closely at the articles, to see if there is anything different, but I cannot find it if there is. Can anyone help?

Thanks, in advance,

— tomo

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#263398

Hi totvos !
Please send admin acc and url of your site , i will check it for you.

[totvos Friend totvosJoin date: July 2008Posts: 17Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#263413

This site not published anywhere yet, as I have not set up hosting while I am still evaluating whether the JA templates are a viable solution.

So then, is there something in particular I should be looking for? The database rows for working and not working articles “seem” to be similar, but I don’t know enough about Joomla or the schema to look deeper.

Please suggest what i can do.

— tomo

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#263667

Hi totvos !
Please check category what you select for ja newsflash, you must make sure that there is more one content in it .

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#263738

Thanks for the suggestion but, as I indicated in my original post, if I add some articles via the front end, it works fine. It is only the articles that I add from the administrator that are missing. Right now, I have about 5 articles, three of which show up, but two do not, all in the same category.

Where in the code shall I look to debug this?

— tomo

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#263795

The problem is now solved.

When I turned on debugging from the Joomla admin (a very useful thing, if you are new to Joomla like me!) I could see the SQL being generated by the newsflash module. It turned out that when I added an article from the admin, the timestamp for the article was not what I expected it to be, because the timezone for the site was set incorrectly. It was therefore posting articles in the future as far as newsflash was concerned. For some reason, articles posted using the front-end did not suffer the same problem, presumably because the time was being grabbed from the browser (but that is just a guess).

Anyhow, when the timezone is set correctly, articles appear in the newsflash as expected. I hope this tip saves someone else a bunch of grief.

— tomo

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#263810

OK , i will mark this thread to “solved”.

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