Reproducing "blog style" and List style" category views

After installing flexicontent into my Joomla site I discovered that it took hold of the Joomla content manager.

Among other things, it also affected the left menu (which disappeared for a while but then mysteriously returned) and now I find myself with a hybrid system to display my content.

Originally I had category views that were both "blog" and "List" style. Now, I have changed some of my menus to reflect flexicontent items and categories, but I have been unable to find a flexicontent category in "list" style equivalent to the one Joomla offers by default.

I also don't know of it is good procedure to switch the content creation to Flexi but keep linking to the content using Joomla links. It appears to be possible but I don't know if it will have any negative or unwanted effects in the future.

From the point of view of designing the site it is a bit confusing to have to link the category to Joomla in order to keep the same formatting I already designed and that was approved but then have each article link to a flexicontent template. It just seems messy to me and I would prefer to keep them all under the flexicontent umbrella.

however, there are many things that I would need to recreate in Flexicontent and I haven't been able to find a "list style template yet.

What are your suggestions? How should I proceed (hoping my explanation was sufficient. If not I will rephrase it in a later post).

thank you.

FLEXIcontent uses template to style FLEXIcontent component area.

FLEXIcontent (category layout) of blog template and default template
match respectively
blog layout and list layout of Joomla , while providing much more capability,

note you can still list your categories using Joomla's blog layout and list layout of Joomla

To define template used by a category, look at the bottom left, then visit templates management to define fields that will be used by the choosen template

Thank you. So "default" is the "list" template, correct?

I will be looking at both since I just designed my blog template I am now much more comfortable dealing with Flexi.

let me tell you: at first I was totally lost. One of the issues was that some of the documentation beside being in french (which I can read somewhat but google does the rest nicely) was a bit outdated. Were the templates in a different location at some point?
I found this tutorial and it showed the template system location as something else entirely, so at that point I kind of despaired.

If I am correct that the template system was located elsewhere at some point, those tutorials should be amended. At the very least with an "obsolete" mark so we know not to chase something that's old.

Anyway, all in all I am getting the hang of it. It seems that as soon as I give up on somethig, I find the solutioon on my own inside the next 10 minutes, but I make an effort of at least makinig a note in my post for future users.

thanks.

yes it is outdated, here is an updated tutorial by netassopro:

extensions.netassopro.com/9-tuto ... -structure

Very nice, thank you. The more I work with it the more I like Flexi. I just built a blog and a list template for the categories, even though I may end up using the default Joomla one, I figure it cannot hurt to learn how to do it.

I have two questions:

1) There is a "flexicontent.css" file that seems to have a lot of the CSS FC uses in the templates. By looking at its location I figured that it may get overwritten in an update so as much as I could I moved my own CSS inside the template css file. Is it worth doing that?

2) In the list template I did not see a way to sort the table wit the arrtcile listings using the headers as Joomla allows you to do/. In fact, I did not see any code that could do that anywhere and I couldn't find

You should never modify it !!!

Proper way to customize CSS for FLEXIcontent and any other Joomla component, is this:

-- Copy a small number of rules in a EXISTING css file of you Joomla template, OR even create a NEW ONE mycustom.css and load it in you Joomla template
-- There you can modify the CSS rules that you copied, you can make them higher priority by
(a) adding !important to the individual styles
(b) or lengthening the CSS rule name by adding one more element to it, for example rule:
#flexicontent fc_button {...}
becomes:
body #flexicontent fc_button {...}
or
div #flexicontent fc_button {...}

Regards