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• FirstTracks
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 24, 2008 - 03:53 PM

  Sorry for the bunch of questions I'm asking today! I've been at this upgrade now for about 14 hours and it's slow going. I'm working in a separate directory to keep our main site (PostNuke .762) up and running until I iron out the wrinkles in Zikula 1.0.
  
  The News pager appears at the bottom of the home page but not on a category view (there are many more stories that have that category than the 10 displayed). I've searched high and low for the template to modify and what code to add to display the pager to the category view, but I've struck out.

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• nestormateo
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 25, 2008 - 12:43 AM

  Check if your theme overrides the news_user_view.htm template, because is that one the responsible of the list. The weird thing is that if the pager appears in the homepage, should appear in the category list unless any conditional prevent that.
  
  Also, debug the template inserting <--[pndebug]--> in the first lines and check which values are in the $pager variable for both screens.
  
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• FirstTracks
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 25, 2008 - 02:36 AM

  I found the news_user_view.htm template, of course, but how do I determine if my theme overrides that?
  
  Thanks for the hint on the debug variable! I used it in news_user_view.htm and noted that on the home page http://www.firsttrac…zikulafto/index.php it correctly recognizes the number of items:
  
  

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  array (2)
  numitems => "5106"
  itemsperpage => 10

  
  
  but when looking at a category view such as http://www.firsttrac…rop=Topic&cat=10023 it incorrectly counts the number of items as 0:
  
  

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  array (2)
  numitems => "0"
  itemsperpage => 10

  
  
  That's got to be something regarding how the categories and topics are constructed, no? Checking the categories_mapobj table there are 2370 stories assigned to topic 10023, which is "Resorts". Here's my categories list:
  
  

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  Root category
     General
       ActiveStatus
       Gender
       Pending Status Basic
         Approved
         Pending
       Pending Status Extended
       Title
       YesNo
     Modules
       FAQ
       global
       News
         Articles
         Features
           Equipment Features
           Event Features
           Other Features
           Resort and Destination Features
           Technique Features
       Pages
       Topics
         Equipment
         Events
         Resort and Destination Features
           Asia
           Australia and new Zealand
           Canada Eastern
           Canada Western
           Europe and Mediterranean
           South America
           U.S. Eastern
           U.S. Midwestern
           U.S. Western
         Resorts
         World Cup
     Users

  
  
  Using "Main" I categorize each story as an "Article" (news) or a "Feature". If it's a Feature I choose from "Equipment Features," "Event Features," "Other Features," "Resort and Destination Features" or "Technique Features."
  
  Then with "Topics" I categorize each Article as "Equipment," "Events," "Resorts" or "World Cup" and if it was a "Resort and Destination Feature" I choose a Topic from "Asia," "Australia and New Zealand," "Canada Eastern," etc. to narrow the geographic focus.
  
  
  
  edited by: FirstTracks, Oct 25, 2008 - 12:40 PM

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• FirstTracks
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 25, 2008 - 07:21 AM

  I don't know why I didn't think of this before, but I switched to Extralite and...same phenomenon. So it's not the theme, it has to be that the pager isn't getting the right number of articles passed to it. I suspect that it has something to do with the screwy articles/categories configuration passed to it by he way I had PostNuke .764 set up. I've just upgraded the database from scratch again, to solve another problem of orphaned articles, and I'm reluctant to screw around with categories unless someone can really tell me the proper way to do it.

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• lordevol
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 27, 2008 - 06:17 AM

  Isn't it the same thing that we solved here: http://community.zikula.org/module-Forum-viewtopic-topic-55339-start-15.htm ?

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• FirstTracks
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 27, 2008 - 06:35 AM

  lordevol

  Isn't it the same thing that we solved here: http://community.zikula.org/module-Forum-viewtopic-topic-55339-start-15.htm ?

  
  
  Hmmm...I sure hope so, I'll download that file when I get home tonight and try it.
  
  I saw that thread when I was looking for a solution before posting my problem here, but I got the impression that the problem being fixed there was getting news articles not marked to be displayed on the home page to still display in a category view.
  
  That's not my problem, per se -- my problem is getting the news pager to appear on anything other than the home page or index.php?module=News.
  
  For example, the pager does not appear index.php?module=News&func=view&prop=Topic&cat=10021 even though there are literally hundreds if not over 1,000 news articles in the database that have category 10021 for a topic. If I manually add "&page=2" to the end of that URL, page two of the articles list does appear. It just seems that the number of available articles being passed to the pager is zero, thus the pager does not appear on the page.
  

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• FirstTracks
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 27, 2008 - 07:53 AM

  Yesssssssss!! lordevol, that did it! Thank you, thank you, thank you.
  

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• lordevol
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 27, 2008 - 08:07 AM

  I'm happy for you, I like zikula!
  But you should thank nestormateo he helped me to solve my problem,
  now if you know how to show the "most hit news" in homepege I will be very happy to read about it :)

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• FirstTracks
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 27, 2008 - 08:11 AM

  Yes, thank you to both of you, as well as everyone else who has put up with my half-dozen topics over the past week and provided me with helpful advice. Although I've been around for a few years since I first migrated our site to PostNuke I've only popped in here on a few occasions when I've needed someone much smarter than me to help me solve a problem -- I've never known enough about PHP, mySQL, etc. to lend much assistance to anyone else. What struck me over the past week, however, is how pleasantly helpful everyone here has been. I truly appreciate it!
  
  And if I stumble by accident across a solution to your "most hit news" problem I'll be sure to let you know, but I'll also assure you that it could only happen by accident.

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