I haven’t had much opportunity to use Joomla 1.5 in production – in fact, now is the first time that I use it for a ‘real’ project. I just finished entering my articles when I realised that they were still showing print,pdf and mail-buttons in the frontend (they weren’t supposed to). Since the article parameters were all set to “‘use global” I changed the parameters for the article component – to absolutely no effect.
A post in the Joomla Forum said that a change of the global setting would not affect existing articles but have effect only on newly created articles. What the fuck ? If this is true it’s completely retarded behaviour.
So I hope that I made some stupid mistake and there is in fact a way to change the parameters for some 100 articles in one go. Can anybody help me ?
Right. I am a wee bit out of practice with (using) Joomla and got somewhat confuddled with the new interface, so you comment really helped. Thank you!
Comment by Eike — June 2, 2008 @ June 2, 2008 8:19 pm
It’s not like that.
The problem is that the articles bundled in the joomla pack, came with the settings in EACH one of the articles, so they are not managed by the global configuration. You have to (painfuly) uncheck every setting applied to them so the global setting could be perceived.
If you created a new article based on the bundled ones you have to do as I said before,uncheck them individually to get global working on them. If you made new articles out of nothing and they are not responding to global, maybe you have set accidentally some settings individually for each article so the global settings have not effect on them. Again, uncheck them off.
Hope it helps.
Comment by Neurotoxine — June 2, 2008 @ June 2, 2008 8:12 pm
hi, i think if your doing it locally, i think one brute force would go to the database… if you have SQL GUI software, the least is you can copy and paste the correct parameters to disable the icons… if its a hundred articles… i suppose hundred copy and paste wouldn’t be that much… but then again i just hope im not giving a stupid suggestion.. cause i would probably do this… if you have sql gui it would more look like an excel file and if your familiar with sql codes.. then i suppose you can just type in the script, then execute
Comment by tony — June 1, 2008 @ June 1, 2008 5:54 pm