how does the mod_featured_article works

Rolando · Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 3

Hello,
I cant put any article to this modul, how does it works?

Thanks for help

best regards
Roland

RicardoCorai · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:03 am Post subject:

Hi Rolando,

The Featured Article module will display the featured article for the issue currently being viewed. So if you are looking at issue #1, the module will show the featured article for issue #1.

If you are not viewing a magazine page, the module will display the featured article of the default issue of the default magazine.

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Regards,

thingwarbler · Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 5 Location: Vermont

Rolando,

That's what I would have thought, but unless I specify an articleID in the mod_featured_article I don't get anything displayed on a non-magazine page that's showing the module. The module doesn't seem to be able to find the featured article of the default issue of the default magazine -- instead it claims "No Featured Article Available" which is almost worse than the module not showing up at all.

What more do I need to do to make that happen?

thingwarbler · Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 5 Location: Vermont

... the featured article from the default issue does show up inside the magazine component, but the whole idea of being able to use the mod_featured_article outside the context of the magazine should be to "tease" a feature article e.g. on a homepage to draw people inside, yes? But if I don't have the magazine set as my default homepage then it appears that mod_featured_article can't do its job unless I manually set the articleID in the parameters for the module. (See http://demo.vtsports.com for all of this).

RicardoCorai · Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 11:50 pm Post subject:

Hi thingwarbler,

I tested my mod_featured_article in my site and it works fine. It shows featured articles inside and outside the iJoomla Magazine.

I'm using 2.1 version without any special configuration (no item id, text/html, intro text 0, etc).

Which version are you using?

thingwarbler · Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 5 Location: Vermont

I'm using 2.1 with nothing special configured anywhere as far as I can tell???

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