Emmanuel,
Thank you for your personal response to my query. I am responding in ALL CAPS so you can see it clearly.
I went on this page
www.pan-america.org/index.php?op
... Itemid=393 and saw no warning. But good news for you : I use the same JA template than you and it works with Flexicontent. YES. I DID SOMETHING AND THE WARNING WENT AWAY. OF COURSE, I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT I DID. HAHA. GOOD TO HEAR YOU ALSO USE THIS TEMPLATE - IT IS SO FLEXIBLE AND CONVENIENT. YOU SEE THEN HOW LARGE IT CAN GET. THIS WAS ONE OF MY CONCERNS WITH STEPPING OUT OF THE SECTION-CATEGORY-ARTICLE MODEL - I WILL END UP WITH SOMEWHERE CLOSE TO 2000 ARTICLES. THE THREE PART MODEL WAS GOOD AS IT HELPED ME TO KEEP IT ALL ORGANIZED. DO YOU STILL THINK I CAN MAINTAIN THIS LEVEL OF CLARITY AND ORGANIZATION IN THE BACK-END WITH FLEXI?
First, make sure all your categories are displayed in the back-end of Flexicontent. If not, you must import the com_content structure or recreate the categories. RIGHT NOW ALL MY CATEGORIES APPEAR IN THE CATEGORY MANAGER AND I SEE THEIR AFFILIATED SECTIONS ON THE FAR RIGHT. IF I GO TO THE CATEGORIES FOLDER IN FLEXI'S BACK END, I SEE THE EXISTING SECTIONS AND CATEGORIES. THIS IS WHERE I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED AND A BIT WEARY ABOUT MAKING THE CHANGES. IS THIS WHERE THE EXISTING SECTIONS DISAPPEAR? AS YOU NOTE BELOW, NOW "ART & ARCHITECTURE" WILL SIMPLY BECOME A MENU ITEM. AND NOW "PHOTOGRAPHY" IN THAT SECTION WILL REMAIN A CATEGORY. I'M ASSUMING THAT THE TWO ARTICLES WOULD BE POINTED TO "PHOTOGRAPHY" AND I WOULD SEE TWO VIEW ITEMS. IF I DO THIS, THEN ALL MY CATEGORIES WOULD BE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY - AND I WOULD HAVE TO REMEMBER WHAT SECTION THEY WERE ONCE A PART OF.
For the frontpage, you have to tell the JA News Modules (JA news 2 and JA news Frontpage) to work with com_flexicontent and not com_content.
Try that with the files "blog_item.php" :
change "ContentHelperRoute" by "flexiContentHelperRoute". I FOUND BLOG_ITEM.PHP AND CAN SEE HOW I WOULD MAKE THIS CHANGE (IN SEVERAL PLACES, I SEE). MY CONCERN IS THAT NOW FRONTPAGE DISPLAYS THE SECTIONS, CATEGORIES, AND ONE SAMPLE ARTICLE - WILL I LOSE THIS? WHAT WILL APPEAR ACROSS THE GRAY BAR AT THE TOP WHERE YOU SEE "ART & ARCHITECTURE" RIGHT NOW
(In a general way, when a module doesn't "connect" with flexicontent, you can try that or replace in the code "com_content" by "com_flexicontent")
As for your menus, the "magazine menu" for example, they all must be Flexicontent menus (select the "category" type). I'M NOT SURE HOW I CREATE A FLEXICONTENT MENU. WHEN I CHANGE IT, WILL I LOSE THE CURRENT DESIGN? DO I CHANGE THIS BY GOING TO THE MAGAZINE MENU UNDER MENUS? OR AM I CREATING SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW IN FLEXI'S DASHBOARD. WILL I STILL HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY TO CHANGE THE SUBMENU OPTIONS, WHICH COME WITH THIS TEMPLATE (DROPLINE MENU, MOO MENU, ETC), AND MAINTAIN THE COLORS? BASICALLY, WILL IT ALL STILL LOOK THE SAME?
You might meet the problem of menus like "Art & Architecture" (several sub-level menues). On the demo JA template, when you click on this menu, the page displays items of all the sublevels menus (other categories). There are no such menus available in flexicontent. To solve the problem, you will have to create a category "art & architecture" but with no items in it. Then create another JA NEWS module with the categories you want (Arts, Architecture, Design, Graphic and Digital Arts,Photography) and make this module display just for the menu "art & architecture".
AGAIN, THANK YOR FOR RESPONDING SO QUICKLY. I HAVE READ SO MANY WONDERFUL THINGS ABOUT FLEXICONTENT, AND I'M ANXIOUS TO GET IT TO WORK FOR ME. I'D BE CURIOUS TO SEE HOW YOU MANIPULATED YOUR WEBSITE WITH THE SAME TEMPLATE.
I hope I could help you. good luck !