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Front-end views of downloaded component not there 13 Aug 2012 07:44 #3118

cefnllys
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Hi, please help. i Have downloaded my component and wish to put the frontend views on my site. I understand this should be done through the menu manager by adding a new menu item and setting the menu item type. however i cannot see anything relating to my compnent in the list? there are definatly views there I've looked in the front-end component file of the directorys but i cannot show them. please help!

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Re: Front-end views of downloaded component not there 13 Aug 2012 11:14 #3122

admin Offline Administrator Chef Posts: 3711 Thank you received: 986	Did you created front view layouts in your component ? EDIT : Which PTL ? So I can try. Coding is now a piece of cake
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Re: Front-end views of downloaded component not there 13 Aug 2012 11:15 #3123

cefnllys Topic Author Offline Premium Member Posts: 102 Thank you received: 5	Yes and I can see them in j-cook and view them in the sandbox
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Re: Front-end views of downloaded component not there 13 Aug 2012 11:18 #3124

cefnllys Topic Author Offline Premium Member Posts: 102 Thank you received: 5	Catering, Menu Builder, frontend-Collection and Item.
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Re: Front-end views of downloaded component not there 13 Aug 2012 11:18 #3125

admin Offline Administrator Chef Posts: 3711 Thank you received: 986	Strange. It works on my hand. When you create a new Menu Item, can you see the name of your component ? Do you mean the list of layout is empty or your component not appearing ? Coding is now a piece of cake
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Re: Front-end views of downloaded component not there 13 Aug 2012 11:21 #3126

cefnllys Topic Author Offline Premium Member Posts: 102 Thank you received: 5	No i cant see the name of my component in the list of layouts when adding a new menu item
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Re: Front-end views of downloaded component not there 13 Aug 2012 11:34 #3127

admin Offline Administrator Chef Posts: 3711 Thank you received: 986	Wich version of Joomla ? For me there is no problem with your component. i tried it in local, it works perfectly. Can you try on a fresh Joomla 2.5.6. Coding is now a piece of cake
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Re: Front-end views of downloaded component not there 13 Aug 2012 11:36 #3128

cefnllys Topic Author Offline Premium Member Posts: 102 Thank you received: 5	just about to try it out now, will let you know if im succesfull.
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Re: Front-end views of downloaded component not there 13 Aug 2012 11:43 #3129

cefnllys Topic Author Offline Premium Member Posts: 102 Thank you received: 5	ok it works if i install the fresh download of the component but stops working if add my own code to it? does saving nit as a .zip or .tar.gz make a diffrence to that? everything else in my component is working fine.
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Re: Front-end views of downloaded component not there 13 Aug 2012 11:51 #3130

admin Offline Administrator Chef Posts: 3711 Thank you received: 986	All you must have are metadata.xml files in each front view directory. EDIT : Maybe in you language file ? (en-GB.com_catering.sys.ini) Coding is now a piece of cake
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Re: Front-end views of downloaded component not there 13 Aug 2012 11:53 #3131

cefnllys Topic Author Offline Premium Member Posts: 102 Thank you received: 5	oh and yes there are metadata files in those directorys. would it be possible to send you my component with my code added to it?
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Re: Front-end views of downloaded component not there 13 Aug 2012 11:58 #3132

admin Offline Administrator Chef Posts: 3711 Thank you received: 986	exceptionaly yes. support AT j-cook DOT pro Coding is now a piece of cake
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Re: Front-end views of downloaded component not there 13 Aug 2012 12:04 #3133

cefnllys Topic Author Offline Premium Member Posts: 102 Thank you received: 5	amazing thank you so much. I've just emailed it to you now.
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Re: Front-end views of downloaded component not there 13 Aug 2012 14:31 #3137

e-struct Offline Senior Member Posts: 76 Thank you received: 4	I have the same missing views. What the trick here ?
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Re: Front-end views of downloaded component not there 13 Aug 2012 15:14 #3138

admin Offline Administrator Chef Posts: 3711 Thank you received: 986	Did you wrote inside your component ? Is it working on a fresh install ? Coding is now a piece of cake
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