By Andrew Gabites on Thursday, 07 June 2018
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Hi

I'm trying to use EB to manage all the content across my site. In my case I have a few different areas trying to use EB in different ways. Most of the areas though have a standard page layout, with a latest posts/categories area at the top of a right hand column on the template

The wiki section however I want to show in a slightly different format. Essentially putting an index of the wiki categories at the top of a right hand column (as they are most likely to be more important when someone is in that area)

I've done this by creating two different templates in the backend - one with the standard (default) view, and one with the wiki format. The relevant modules (and therefore the order) are set in the template rather than the ordering function of Joomla.

I've managed to get one page working with the wiki template - the "weather wiki" page (https://sitename.net.nz/wiki-eb), selectable from the main menu. What I'd like to have is every category and item view within the wiki use the same wiki template / layout.

If I look at one of the wiki pages that currently use the non-wiki layout, the URL is not what I'd expect to see.

So in EB there is a category structure of Weather Wiki ==>Definitions, I'd expect to see a URL like http://www.sitename.net.nz/weather-wiki/categories/definitions, but instead I see a url of https://sitename.net.nz/latest-news-blog/news-feeds/watches-and-warnings/categories/definitions.

The extra piece "latest-news-blog/news-feeds/watches-and-warnings" in the URL relates to a category structure elsewhere in the site, and I'm wondering if this is preventing me from applying the right format to the wiki entries. This extra piece in the url would have been the first thing I set up in EB

It possibly has something to do with this

https://stackideas.com/forums/url-routing-issues-with-multiple-blog-pages-categories-posts-not-following-routing

but I've gone through and checked the menu settings and they all look to be set to single article - unless I'm missing something?

Apologies for the long explanation - any thoughts on how to fix this?

Cheers and thanks
Andrew
Hi Andrew,

Perhaps you can try creating separate menu items for those categories under the menu item wiki-eb. For example, I have helped you create one menu item for one of the categories as you can see in the screenshot(http://take.ms/S9OXH).

The link generated as a result would be something like this format: https://www.sitename.nz/wiki-eb/weather-wiki
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Thursday, 07 June 2018 16:36
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Hi

I was hoping to avoid doing that. - It would mean that each time we create a new category (there could be a few) then I would need to add a new menu item.

Advantage is of course that I can assign the wiki template to the menu item, so it solves that problem.

I think I'll do that, and hopefully I can come up with a better solution later on ;-)

Cheers and thanks
Andrew
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Thursday, 07 June 2018 17:17
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Alright Andrew and you're most welcome.

Regards.
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Thursday, 07 June 2018 17:46
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