The apparent bug -

Regardless of the template selected on the landing page menu item, the landing page always seems to use the 'default' template. I was hoping to be able to use two different landing pages with their own templates, but each page uses the default template.

Suggestion (or two)

It would be great to have a 'Show on Landing Page' boolean on the Teachers, Series, Message Type, Topics, and Locations records. I realize the Teachers has the show on list which does affect the LP, but they should be independent decisions - I may want a teacher on a teacher's list, but not on the LP.

It might also be good to have a selection criteria to inform which items in a category show and which ones are revealed by the show all button. For example, we have many speakers who have fewer than 5 sermons and 3-4 speakers who have many sermons. It would be good to have the frequent speakers shown initially in alphabetic order with the larger number of less frequent speakers shown in alphabetic order when the show-all button is clicked.

I could imagine this type of behavior for each of the headings on the landing page, except years. I could also imagine using this type of selection based on hits as well.

Thanks for a great product.

Bill

EDIT: Upon further investigation, it appears that the default template is also the only thing used for a series list? So maybe the problem is my installation?

We are awar of the bug and believe we have fixed it in the upcoming version 7.0.2,. We will look into adding your suggestion to the 7.1.0,. With that version we are reworking the how front end lots of new options should be avalible to.

Brent,

I did try the 7.0.2 module and the default template issue appears to still be there. I am trying to plan a new website release and just curious if you have sense of when 7.1 might release?

Thanks
Bill

Hi Bill,

Was this a module issue? I thought it was a component issue?

The component under 7.0.2 does work with multiple templates.

As far as release - we are close but now Joomla 2.5 is coming out in just days and we are scrambling to test against that release - we've discovered some critical issues, some bugs with Joomla, and others that may be with our component that need to be addressed.

So ... we are not sure at this point whether to release this or keep testing under 2.5. Stay tuned! If you want to contact me directly I could share with you the component as it is now, but it may still have a few bugs.

Tom