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[danieljames50 Friend danieljames50Join date: March 2012Posts: 17Downloads:21Uploads:1 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 16 times in 6 posts]

#178737

I wanted to sort the timeline by category instead of year but there are no settings to do this in the back en d that could find. So I can up with a sort of “work-around.”

1.) Change PHP code to display category name instead of year:

In file: templatesja_lenshtmlcom_k2ja_lenscategory_it em.php – Change the following:
<div class=”inner item-inner clearfix”>
<h2><?php echo $timeline; ?></h2>
<p><?php echo $this->yearCounts[$this->currTimeline]; echo ‘ item’ . ($this->yearCounts[$this->currTimeline] > 1 ? ‘s’ : ”) ; ?></p>
</div>

To:
<div class=”inner item-inner clearfix”>
<h2><?php echo $this->item->category->name; ?></h2>
<p><?php echo $this->yearCounts[$this->currTimeline]; echo ‘ item’ . ($this->yearCounts[$this->currTimeline] > 1 ? ‘s’ : ”) ; ?></p>
</div>

2.)Sort ‘Item Ordering’ in ‘Basic Options’ by ‘order’

3.) Order K2 Categories in in order you’d like them to be displayed.
4.) Change year of items in each category by year. (top category items 2012, 2nd category 2011, etc…)
5.) Order items in the order you’d like them displayed.

That’s it. It’s not a perfect solution and it takes time to setup but the final result ended up being exactly what i wanted. Hope this helps someone.

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#477903

YOU. ARE. AWESOME!
😀 Thank you!

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#477906

Glad my tip was helpful. 🙂

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#477928

The only questions I have now are; Is there a way to hyperlink the categories?
and is there a way to move the words on the category square up or change the font size because the article count is cut off on a few of them.

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#477965

I’m not sure how to link the category name. I’m guessing the link attributes can be added to the same line as the edited code above but I don’t know Joomla well enough to explain how. As for the location of the words, just edit the corresponding code in template.css. Use Firebug in Mozilla Firefox to tell you which line to edit.

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#478218

Thanks for this tip – very good. One ‘problem” i have though id that I can’t get the headings for the different categories to show – it is only the heading for the first category that is displayed. There are 2 categories Street Photography (3items) and Stenciled art (5items) but for some reason i only see the first heading and the total item count of BOTH categories.
please attached screeen shot.

thanks,
j

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#478311

Hmmm…sounds like the articles might be in the same category. I’m happy to take a look if you want to share a link to your site.

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#478489

Hi,
I figured out the problem I had. I didn’t follow ‘Step 4’ – ie order the articles by year depending on categories.

Thanks for a great tip. Unfortunately this will not work for us as we require the creattion date to be true – ie when the articl was/is created.

j

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#478755

You could probably adjust the category listing settings to get it to display the way you want it.

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#479251

Hi,

Are there anyway to not have the articles to ‘group’ by date under the categories? For example in attahced screenshot the articles are all under the same category but they are added at 2 different dates.

Any suggestions would be much appriciated.

Thanks,
j

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#479289

Have you tried changing the ‘Item Ordering’ in ‘Basic Options’ to date instead of order?

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#479310

Hi,

I did try different sorting options. If I for example select ‘Most recent first’ it will sort the items coreectly but still group them the by date. The same occur if I select any other sorting option.

Thanks,
J

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