How to display list of articles created using submitcontent.

Hi guys - Newbie here....
I downloaded submitcontent.cfbak and made the necessary changes to the form:

<?php
$_POST['catid'] = '3';
$_POST['id'] = '';
$_POST['sectionid'] = '1';
$_POST['state'] = '0';
$_POST['created'] = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
?>

I simply want people to use the form to submit their Art Ideas.
I receive the email OK telling me there's a new Art Idea Submission - then I approve it.
That approved article, section and category are all set to "Public".

Now here's the Newbie question. I can't figure out for the life of me, what menu item to add to my main menu in order to get the entire list of Art Project Ideas (Articles) to be shown?? 😶

I've tried every type of menu item, but I cannot make this work.
I don't know what the heck of doing wrong!

The submitcontent form works perfectly.
I receive the submitted article perfectly.
I approve the article and it's set to Public.
Both my Section and Category are set to Public.

Can anyone help this Newbie????
Thanks

Hi MarleyMan,

Isn't it Internal Link | Articles | Category List Layout ??

Bob

Hi MarleyMan,

Isn't it Internal Link | Articles | Category List Layout ??

Bob

That's exactly what I did but as you can see here: http://baaso.web-tactics.com/index.php/Table/Art-Project-Ideas/
When you click on the "Earth Day" Category nothing happens....it should be displaying the article that was submitted, approved and that's set for that Section/Category.

I'm doing something wrong...Augh.

Can anyone out there help? 🤨

I really need to get this working asap!!

Thanks

No one out there? Not one person can help me?
Augh. How can this lack of response inspire me to purchase a license for this product? 🤨

Hi marleyman,
Could you please verify that you do not have both a section list and a category list with the very same alias in your menus?

Using http://baaso.web-tactics.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=3 shows an empty list of articles, with the URL altered to the url you posted earlier. Refreshing that url takes you back to a section list (containing that single category).

/Fredrik

Oh wait,
It actually points me to a different URL http://baaso.web-tactics.com/index.php/Table/Earth-Day/ which will always list the articles. I'm still a bit confused that your section list won't allow you to show the belonging categories, and why the router does not pick up the "/Table/Earth-Day/" URL for the category listing from the section list.

There seems to be something going on with your menus nevertheless.

/Fredrik

I'm sorry to sound ignorant but I'm not fully understanding your question.

I've added a screen shot of my main menu.

My Section Title is: Art Project Ideas
My Section Alias is: art-project-ideas
My Category Title is: Earth Day
My Category Alias is: earth-day

I hope I'm giving you the correct info that you're asking for - my apologies if I'm not....I really do need to solve this.

Thanks so much for your help.

I was told to display the articles created using submitcontent that I should add the following Menu Item:
Menu Item Type
Category List Layout

So is this wrong?

'k,
Do you think you could post a screenshot of the menu object "Art Projects"? Especially the Link/URL part?

Category List layout is just fine for listing articles. But for some reason, your menu item is actually displaying a Section List layout.

/Fredrik

Please let me know if this is what you wanted me to post.
thanks again.

Yes, that's the screenshot I asked for.
Unfortunately, this only makes me more puzzled. Those settings are perfectly fine.
Especially, I can't figure out where that 'Table/' portion of the URL is originating from.

Have you tried disabling Search Engine Friendly URL's from the global configuration?

/Fredrik

YIPPIE!!!

Even with sh404SEF enabled - it's now working!!

I had "Search Engine Friendly URLS" checked off and sh404SEF enabled and I guess that messed everything up!

I am so very grateful for your patience and your help on this!!

Thank you so much!
Whew...that was a frustrating couple of days!! :mrgreen: