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Hello Guys,

Before all, I would like to congratulate you for useful, great and what I was looking for component!

I have adapted my Magic cards full database to JCollector tables, making a global category "Magic" and there, one category by edition with all the cards on existence. It is working fantastic.

After that I made 3 different List Categories:
- Collection (for that cards available to trade)
- Deck (for standard and not standard users deck, the idea is to collect statics about challenges on a near future)
- Format (here I would like to do a list of Items Category related to expansions)

Right now, I'm facing an issue that I'm not sure if it is by limitation or my mistake. I would like to list the Lists by category, but I can't find an standard way to do it. Is there something implemented like that?

One more thing that just happened after upgrade to 10rc3 yesyerday, when I'm editing a list as user from the front end, the side main menu appears on the bottom of the page, any fix around at hand?

Well, again. Thank you very much for you time dedicated to the community.
Andres.-

Nevermind about editing a list. It was my broken html scrapped as description, I just escaped these using "$desc = strip_tags($item->description);" as workaround till I fix it on the db.

Hi,

sorry for the late reply... mh, I don't think there is a standard way to do this (show lists by category), other than "at the top" of an individual item. I'll have a look
Cheers,
Thorsten.

Hi Thorsten, nice to meet you!

What I did, is to add two dummy items to the parent category for that collection, On each "list" from a "category list" that should be published, this dummy item has to be present. Then I added a link on the main menu to that item. I was playing with listcat plugin to present the lists on a paragraph format and that is working fine, just I need to find a way to avoid the others categories on the list for that item.

What I would love:
- A view to present the list by category as original commented (an maybe by type?).
- A new relation cat2list. Where you can create list of categories (would it include all the items by default and maybe could track exceptions?). On my particular collection cards case it would help to track sets (sub categories) and formats (tournaments divisions by sets) but I think it could be useful for another types of collections when you have to separate a bulk of items under certain condition.

Well, I really thank you for you great job here, I'm amusing with this code, it is saving me lot of time on Joomla customization.

Regards.
Andres.-

Hi,
good to hear you like JCollection! Unfortunately, I am currently very much involved in developing the successor of JCollection, and I try to avoid inserting new features (or, as in this case, views) into the "old" JCollection. The good news is that category/list handling will be a lot more flexible (and easier at the same time), there is pretty much only one relation type from item to item, and certain items can then serve as categories or lists. The bad news is: it is not ready yet. The backbone library is almost done, I think there will be a release soon. The Joomla component using this backbone however will take a bit more time.
Cheers,
Thorsten.

Hello Thorsten,
It is really good to hear that you are preparing a successor to launch, nowadays it is the best component on its category and it is good to know that it will be beaten by itself. I would be happy to try it and help on whatever I can.
May the force be with you!
Andres.-