10 years ago
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Struggling with trying to include related articles in the content view of an article. My thought is to use the Tags field to relate articles.  I was able to get a joomla 3rd party plugin to work but that is only good for displaying Titles with links. I need to show the Intro View of the related articles.  Seems like it should be a simple thing but I can't find a solution. Has anyone done this?
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Kadministrator
10 years ago
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Level 1
Hi,

have you tried using Related articles field? One of the options is to show introtext
10 years ago
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Level 2
Hi,

Yes I have, but unless I am missing something that field allows you to select only one article and it's a manual process requiring the user to select.  To have multiple articles I would have the include the field multiple times.  Likewise for every new article I create I would have to manually related it to historical documents.  The site has a couple thousand pages which is a lot to sort through.

This is why I am looking Tags for my relationship method.

If I am missing something with this field please let me know.

Thanks for your reply and support.

Joe
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Kadministrator
10 years ago
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Level 3
Hi,

you can add field x field and set it to replicate related articles field, this way user can add as many instances as desired
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giorgia74
5 years ago
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Level 4

"you can add field x field and set it to replicate related articles field, this way user can add as many instances as desired"

Hi Klas I'm interested in this, can you explain me better please?

Grazie

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Kadministrator
5 years ago
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Level 5
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giorgia74
5 years ago
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Level 6

hello Klas, thanks for the reply, I have another problem always related to the article: I set the field on link (I have no clear configuration +) I left the default, unfortunately in content wiev if I click on the article link related, the link does not work and the browser refers to the home page. I would like to point out that the two linked content types are different and that the first one comes from the relative List & Search Types

Grazie

Giorgia

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Kadministrator
10 years ago
0
Level 1
Hi,

to make related articles by joomla tags (ofc you need to have joomla tags field in the content type) you need this live plugin (currenlty joomla 3 only as 2.5. uses different database table) https://www.dropbox.com/sh/p0e8ef6odo3q86n/amUsQ8zx-S/live_related_by_tag.zip

With this plugin you can add Article ID field to the new search/list form and use this plugin as live value with »any words exact« matching and "no-quotes". Plugin inserts ids of related articles if any tags match current article.

You can show this new list with the list module or in content item line using form plugin http://www.seblod.com/products/8538.

Small detail: set »No result« message style to None on the new search/list type or you will get no results message each time there is not related articles :)
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Catastrophix
10 years ago
2
Level 1

Hi Klas

I'd like to use this plugin, but am a little worried that it has not made its way into the Products section of the SEBLOD site and therefore might not be maintained. Should I be concerned?

All of the best,

Stephen

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Kadministrator
10 years ago
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Level 2

It should work ok unless joomla decides to change its database structure related to tags again in the future, but that is not likely to happen.

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Catastrophix
10 years ago
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Level 3

Thanks Klas

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