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pkirbyr

On our home page [hide]http://www.techmediaglobal.com[/hide] we are using several content modules and the Ario template. I believe i\'m having this problem (below) due to changes in the Ario template and the following modules: mod_latestnews, mod_mostread and mod_latestnews etc.

As an example, the mod_latestnews is a list of articles/papers

The problem is that when clicking on a link associated with a paper, the paper is displayed below the three rows/modules in the center column - this is not what needs to happen. I need those three rows/modules to vanish and then the paper can be displayed from top to bottom for the entire center column.

The same problem occurs with any module that displays an article including: mod_latestnews, mod_mostread and mod_latestnews.

I appreciate any help. By far, I receive more help on this forum in comparison to all others combined!

k.

waseem

Hi,
What are the module positions of the \'Latest Papers\', \'Latest Forum Posts\', and \'Latest Blog Entries\'

the issue may most likely be that they are in the top most module positions that loads above the \'inset\'(where articles usually load)

Andy

I could be wrong but this is a Joomla thing... itemid

If you look at all of the links, they have te same itemid in the link \"77\" this means it sees any assigned modules to that itemid on all pages that have it. I have come across this many times with building Joomla sites in the past but I actually thought they would have fixed it for 1.5.. appears not so!

Do a search for itemid problems with Joomla and your issue with the modules, it will bear some light on the subject!

pkirbyr

Don\'t know if it is this ItemID problem...

The good thing appears to be that when you first come to the site (home page), the links from the modules appear to work correctly. If i click on the first link in \"Latest Papers\" (aka mod_latestnews), then the full page/text will appear. The same ~good~ behaviour continues even if you click around the site and again on the \"Home\" menu button at the top-left of the page. HOWEVER, when you click on the \"Home\" menu button at the lower-left side of the page, then the problem occurs with the text loading ~under~ the home page center column (inset) modules.

I\'ve had trouble with that \"Home\" button on the lower-left menu before:

If I set that Home menu button within that menu that as ~default~ for the site, every time you point with the curser to that link, the IP address for the server displays. Subsequently when clicking on that Home button, the entire session continues to use the IP address of the server and not the domain name (:-O), which starts to mess other things up. To fix it I set the top-left Main menu button as the site ~default~ and then the problem went away.

So I\'m trying to understand this notion of the Item ID problem and have looked at many posts on the topic.

k.


k.

pkirbyr

Geez... I was wrong.. once i click on an article and click Home on the top left menu, I then start to have the problem where text is placed under the center column rows..

i really need a fix to this.. This is not as bad as many other issues, but it\'s certainly a big usability problem.

k.

waseem

set your home menu to type Link url and direct it to http://www.techmediaglobal.com for now as a temporary fix while we try and sort out the main problem

waseem

ok, just so i understand properly

you want your \'Latest Papers\', \'Latest Forum Posts\', and \'Latest Blog Entries\' on every page ?

but when you click an article you want the article to be on the top with the \'Latest Papers\', \'Latest Forum Posts\', and \'Latest Blog Entries\' below the article ?
do you also want this on the home page ?

Andy

Ok, I just tried something that shows me again this is an itemid problem... possibly cause by the way your content is setup but I am not sure..

1.Go to the site so the url looks like this

http://www.techmediaglobal.com/

2.Then click the link the first popular pages link in the module in the sidebar

--> Integration of MPLS with Optical Transport Networks

3.Now click the home link again and look at the url

http://www.techmediaglobal.com/index...iew=frontpage&Itemid=77

**Notice the Itemid

4. Now click or hover on any links in the latest or popular papers and you will see they now ll have the same itemid=77

The modules now will load on all these pages because the modules load based on the itemid number its assigned to it. The Itemid is what Joomla uses to decide which modules and templates need to appear on the page.... Perhaps its just a bug in the Joomla latest and popular modules.

OK, I did a quick google search and found a module that helps fix itemid problems with these 2 modules. I am not 100% sure if it is related or not... but you have a read and search around I am sure this is where the problem lies.

First: long joomla thread about this

http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=125365

A module that fixes the latestnews itemid:

http://extensions.joomla.org/compone...821/Itemid,35/
http://electronicmother.com/cms/inde...id=23&Itemid=9


If you are still uncertain and think its the template, then try assigning the default Joomla template to your site and see if it stops happening....

One other place to look at the details of this issue is a great article from Alledia

http://www.alledia.com/blog/joomla-t...s-and-itemids/

I hope this helps,

Cheers,

Andy

pkirbyr

Actually it\'s not even a temporary fix. Once you go into/read an article, the problem perists forever until you close the browser, open a new one and connect to the site.

k.

pkirbyr

Thanks Andy.. The modules that apparently work around the problem refer to a file \"com_content/content.html.php\" that is supposed to replace or get modified to support forced ItemID\'s. I can not find this file.

FYI - from reading, it sounds like this problem was supposed to be fixed in 1.5.x

k.