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#130730

there are no active links in the read more articles

additional articles are suggestion but no link for the users to click..

the issue can be viewed near the bottom of the following page

http://www.fashionistas.cc/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=13&Itemid=197

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#259156

<em>@sanjiovani 65771 wrote:</em><blockquote>there are no active links in the read more articles

additional articles are suggestion but no link for the users to click..

the issue can be viewed near the bottom of the following page

http://www.fashionistas.cc/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=13&Itemid=197</blockquote>

Unfortunately, that is one of the bugs that I noticed in Joomla1.5x-Teline II. The only way I can do with it now is to use the “Read more” option when you edit an article. so that the reader has something to click..

If someone knows a better solution, I would be interested to know also.

Cornelio

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#259252

I think the way round this is via the Magazine Menu.

You can actually activate for section/category ‘clickable headings’ so that the actual title of the article becomes the link to the article itself.

Open the Magazine Menu and click on the section/category you wish to modify.

On right hand side choose Parameters – Component:

Set ‘Title Linkable’ to Yes … mmm I think!

Don’t shoot me if it doesn’t work, I’ve never tried it 🙂

Good luck
Chris

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1. sanjiovani

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#259270

<em>@questbg 65886 wrote:</em><blockquote>I think the way round this is via the Magazine Menu.

You can actually activate for section/category ‘clickable headings’ so that the actual title of the article becomes the link to the article itself.

Open the Magazine Menu and click on the section/category you wish to modify.

On right hand side choose Parameters – Component:

Set ‘Title Linkable’ to Yes … mmm I think!

Don’t shoot me if it doesn’t work, I’ve never tried it 🙂

Good luck
Chris</blockquote>

Please try and make a tutorial, Chris.:) Another good one for the Collaborative Support Group.

I really really do not like the “Read more” option — that is for “children” not adults. I like to believe that my readers are not stupid.

Cornelio

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#259275

<em>@cgc0202 65904 wrote:</em><blockquote>Please try and make a tutorial, Chris.:) Another good one for the Collaborative Support Group.
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Best to wait until sanjiovani tries this to make sure it works! Or maybe I’ll try tomorrow and check it works!

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#259278

Chris,

After, I went to the Joomla 1.5x-Teline II site myself, to try your suggestion. I just realized it should work (but must be treated as an interim solution) but it is a bad long term strategy for a number of reasons:

1. When you have a gazillion sections and caategories, you have to do it over and over. Waste of time.
2. Also, not all sections and therefore categories may be included in the Magazine menu.

However, as interim solution, they could be “included” but then unpuglished, after doing what you suggested.

So, in this sense, your suggestion works, and until a better solution is done, it deserves a tutorial.

I used Gavick Pro News tabs, in Joomla 1.5.3, and this is no problem, because in their News Module, you can activate what you just suggested here.

Thus the long term solution to this problem is to include this as a feature to activate in the JA News Module, as Gavick Pro did.

Note that this issue is not encountered in Joomla 1.0x-Teline II. Why? In Joomla 1.0x, one of the features to activate in the Global Configuration is to answer Yes to Linkable articles, or something like that. Unless I missed it, I do not find that in the Joomla 1.5x Global configuration.

This is one of the features why I told you that there are some features that are lacking in Joomla 1.5x There are quite a few and they are very criticial or would be significant features.

Cornelio

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#259302

it works fine but how do i get the related articles to show up on all of the articles it only show up on the 1 article i referenced.

Also how do i get the read more link to show and be linkable ?

thanks

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#259314

<em>@sanjiovani 65942 wrote:</em><blockquote>it works fine but how do i get the related articles to show up on all of the articles it only show up on the 1 article i referenced.</blockquote>

If you are referring to Chris proposal, it does work with the limitation I indicated — those sections not included in the Magazine menu will not be affected.

<em>@sanjiovani 65942 wrote:</em><blockquote>
Also how do i get the read more link to show and be linkable ?
thanks</blockquote>

This is an article feature when you edit via the Administration page. When you are creating or editing an article, at the bottom of the Article edit page is the icon (“Read more”). This will tell you where the article will first truncate in the Section Intro Page — and it will show this first truncation by the “Read more”.

I do not like “Read more” though, as I stated above.

I would prefer a linkable Title for each article, which you can do with one action in the Global Configuration of Joomla 1.0x, but a feature not found in Joomla 1.5x. This is not corrected in Joomla 1.5.4. either.

The use of “Read more” to truncate and also serve as link to a page, is one of the more “not so bright” innovations implemented in Joomla 1.5x, like some other omissions.

However, Gavick Pro was able to overcome this problem by having the option not only to “not show” the “Read more” but also to cause the Title of each article be linkable even in Joomla 1.5x, by introducing scripts to do these in their Gavick News Module.

Joomlart JA News Module does not have those features — not thought of it, or just was pressed for time, and not able to consider such subtleties, that some template companies were able to address.

Cornelio

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#259345

no

if you look at the bottom of this page you will see there are no related articles

http://fashionistas.cc/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=146:khushali-kumar&catid=83:india-fashion-week&Itemid=197

whereas

http://www.fashionistas.cc/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=13&Itemid=197

the realated articles are listed

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#259360

<em>@sanjiovani 65996 wrote:</em><blockquote>no

if you look at the bottom of this page you will see there are no related articles

http://fashionistas.cc/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=146:khushali-kumar&catid=83:india-fashion-week&Itemid=197

whereas

http://www.fashionistas.cc/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=13&Itemid=197

the realated articles are listed</blockquote>

Hi sanjiovani;

The first one is a full article link, the second one is the Section Intro for Deisgners

http://fashionistas.cc/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=13&Itemid=197

If I click on the link, The Original Fashionistas, it shows its full article:

http://fashionistas.cc/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=161:coco-chanel&catid=81:fashion-designers&Itemid=198

which is like your first link above — no links below.

Did you follow what Chris suggested for the Section “Fashionista”? If you did, then as you can see, the titles of the articles will show as links in the Intro page.

Cornelio

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