[#14053] - Problem with banner keyword search appearance on the front-end
- Closed
- 25 Mar 2018
- Medium
- Build: 3.6.5
- # 14053
Steps to reproduce the issue
Add the keywords 'dog' and 'cat' to the appropriate Articles.
Add the Tags 'dog' and 'cat' to the appropriate Banners in the Banner Manager New/Edit screen.
Set the Banner module Parameter 'Search By Tags' to 'Yes' in the Banner Module Edit screen.
Checked the frontend article where the banner must appear, only a empty box appears.
Expected result
To see the connected banners (related banners) accordingly the meta keywords in the respective page.
Actual result
No banner appears to the article what has the same meta keywords set
System information (as much as possible)
System Information
Setting Value
PHP Built On Linux ct1.srv.run 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3 (2016-07-02) x86_64
Database Version 5.5.46-MariaDB
Database Collation latin1_swedish_ci
Database Connection Collation utf8mb4_general_ci
PHP Version 5.6.26
Web Server Apache/2
WebServer to PHP Interface apache2handler
Joomla! Version Joomla! 3.6.5 Stable [ Noether ] 1-December-2016 22:46 GMT
Joomla! Platform Version Joomla Platform 13.1.0 Stable [ Curiosity ] 24-Apr-2013 00:00 GMT
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3006.0 Safari/537.36
Additional comments
It looks for me like a bug that the connection with the keyword is not made. I was follow the exact official steps to accomplish the expected result.
https://docs.joomla.org/Help36:Components_Banners_Banners_Edit
Here a other user #7958 had the same issue, but the bug looks like still present.
Votes
joomla-cms-bot
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Thank you for your fast reply & help for the workaround!
But sorry, that is a bug obviously. Its nowhere written that its mandatory to use a client and a category. And it makes also no sense for me as Admin to select a client and a category when i don't need them.
Even in the official help site of Joomla its nowhere that i could find mentioned that those fields are mandatory see yourself https://docs.joomla.org/Help25:Components_Banners_Banners_Edit
Are you using the banner module in a template position or are you including it in an article using the loadmodule plugin
There was a report in the past that this will not work when included in an article
franz-wohlkoenig
- | Category | ⇒ | com_banners |
| Priority | Urgent | ⇒ | Medium |
| Status | New | ⇒ | Discussion |
It has been a year since the request for more information. I am going to close this at this time.
| Status | Discussion | ⇒ | Closed |
| Closed_Date | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | ⇒ | 2018-03-25 10:44:26 |
| Closed_By | ⇒ | brianteeman |
I have tested and was unable to reproduce the issue. Please make sure that your banner is assigned to a category and client and that you banner module is configured accordingly.