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avatar QuotesUK
QuotesUK
10 Oct 2023

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

In the "Articles - Category" site module there is an existing option to gives links to article titles. However there isn’t a corresponding one for the category. This results in nested lists of linked article titles under plain text category names.

There is an option to enable category display. However this adds the category name in brackets after every article title. This category text appears in linked format with no option for plain text.

Existing options:

Plain Text Category
- Plain Text or Linked Article Title (Optional Linked Category)
- Plain Text or Linked Article Title (Optional Linked Category)
- Plain Text or Linked Article Title (Optional Linked Category)
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Describe the solution you'd like

Add a new display option - Linked Category
a) Allow the option to toggle the grouped category headings from plain text to linked
b) Allow the option to display categories in brackets with or without links

Plain Text or Linked Category
- Plain Text or Linked Article Title (Optional Plain Text or Linked Category)
- Plain Text or Linked Article Title (Optional Plain Text or Linked Category)

Additional context

In my opinion the existing option for adding linked categories bloats the list unnecessarily. There is no need to repeat the category name in brackets after an article title when it could appear once as the heading. My main interest is in the simpler option A.

This is what I would like to achieve:


Linked Category
- Linked Article Title
- Linked Article Title
- Linked Article Title
avatar QuotesUK QuotesUK - open - 10 Oct 2023
avatar joomla-cms-bot joomla-cms-bot - change - 10 Oct 2023
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avatar brianteeman
brianteeman - comment - 10 Oct 2023

That is exactly the sort of thing you should create a template override for

avatar QuotesUK
QuotesUK - comment - 10 Oct 2023

A template override is the only way to achieve this at the moment. That is why I have suggested an update to the module options. Clean output of a nested list with or without links on titles and categories ought to be a simple starting point but it isn’t catered for. The bracketed option for category links after every title is bloated.

avatar richard67 richard67 - change - 10 Oct 2023
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avatar rdeutz rdeutz - change - 11 Apr 2024
Status New Closed
Closed_Date 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2024-04-11 15:56:20
Closed_By rdeutz
avatar rdeutz rdeutz - close - 11 Apr 2024
avatar rdeutz
rdeutz - comment - 11 Apr 2024

I am closing this for two reasons, it is a very specific use case and it can be done with an overwrite.

Thanks for bringing this up.

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