websquirrel wrote: And it also changed my previous global article view settings completely, though I set "use global" everywhere. But these global settings seemed to be changed by flexi content. Why?
1. FLEXIcontent uses its own parameters that exist in
FLEXIcontent component settings
- please configure default behavior in FLEXIcontent component settings, this applies to ANY other component that you may install
2. For language, component is big and we have no control over the translator,
nor is the translator paid to do the translation, (maybe you can join in transifex.org and help with the translation work)
because we do not speak every language we do not know if translation is good or update to date in ALL cases
in this case we recommend that you use English in the backend
3. Here is what to do for simple usage:
(For basic usage do not edit any files !!)
a. assign a template to your category
(do this in category edit form)
b. Go to template manager and
drag and drop field into the category layout of the template that you have selected
c. note that some template besides template positions (e.g. FC 'blog' template), have template parameter, you can find these at the bottom right of the category edit form
4. Please note that FLEXIcontent is built for many different web-sites and it has many options and parameters, most people find it perfect for their needs and intuitive, i can understand that it may not be suitable for your needs, we take no offense (we do our best to improve UI of it even more)
5.
if you want to uninstall
- please first install v2.1.3 r1857 which fixes an uninstall issue
- and then uninstall it
6. almost all problems that you may have are due to configuration e.g. frontend editing uses Joomla ACL, have checked who can edit what in component permissions, yes in FLEXIcontent
component permission
the large number of parameters that this component has make it possible to create many different sites without being a developer.
7. Finally to answer questions about behavior is not always easy because we do not know your configuration,
try making a single specific question about a template or specific feature, the more specific you are, the easier it will be to answer you
e.g. ask us how to add FLEXIcontent image/gallery field to a category that uses the 'presentation' template
also if you do not like blog, try using the 'presentation' template for your categories
thank you for appreciating years of our time spent on this free component, and please note that answering this forum takes great effort
Regards