Minor problem with showing up empty (sub) categories.

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DiepFreezeR
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Minor problem with showing up empty (sub) categories.

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First of all compliments for the great component. I am running it on a local football clubsite.
I have several categories for easy navigation (e.g.) Teams 09-10, containing subcategories C1, C2, C3 (etc.)
Starting via de menulink I get nice view of all (sub) categories containing pictures.
Selecting a (sub)catergorie is presenting nicely the tumbnails with back imagepicture.
Selecting this back image brings you back to the teams 09-10 category, but now you see also all empty subcategories too. (Map icons for empty ones and pic if containing pictures).
I want the empty subcategories not shown as at the start, however could not find the correct setting for this.
I checked the forum and read the doc's. I have set the phocagallery menu link settings to shown and the rest to general.
I probably mixed up the various settings in the control panel and lost my way :idea: Can someone put me on the right track?
Here the link to see what I ment: http://svommoord.slclubsite.nl/index.ph ... &Itemid=79
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Re: Minor problem with showing up empty (sub) categories.

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Hi, you need to disable it in parametes (in parameters in menu link to gallery), see:

https://www.phoca.cz/documents/2-phoca-g ... -menu-item
https://www.phoca.cz/documents/16-joomla ... -in-joomla


Check your Itemids, maybe you have more than one menu link to gallery, so it can happens, that the back link links to other menu link (disable SEF if enabled and check the itemids, if you go back to other itemid then set the parameters for this itemid - itemid = id of the menu link in menu manager)

Jan
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Re: Minor problem with showing up empty (sub) categories.

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Thank you for thourough answering my question.
I checked menu's there's only one. Have no SEF. Checked articles etc. Could not find any references to other than Itemid=79. So I did a clean fresh life install of joomla! 1.5.15 (including sample data).
Added only one gallery menu link.
Put some pic's and empty maps (set global and component/menu parameter).
But the same behaviour. Down OK back empty maps showing up.
It's not a big deal and will live with it :wink:
It's an outstanding component and ,even with your detailed documentation, while finding your way around looking for the right or wrong settings you just realise what all the posibility's are.
You could build a <Phoca for Dummy's> button so all the setting will return to "factory/standard" <BG> :|
Some day I will probably stumble upon the wrong setting while looking for something else.
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Re: Minor problem with showing up empty (sub) categories.

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You could build a <Phoca for Dummy's> button so all the setting will return to "factory/standard" <BG>
Hi, it is good idea :-)
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