Alaskan

I am using AkoStaff V1.0 Beta 6. I like it and it works pretty slick for what I am doing. But, I need to have separate pages where I have different committees showing. So far I can only get one page with all the staff/committee members listed.
Can anyone help?
Oh, I'm also using 4.5.09 not the newer version of mambo.
Thanks!!
-jw

Sansibar

Alaskan,
It depends how many category-levels you need.
If you need just one level, you can add one category for each committee. If the different committee's (categories) should be displayed on different menu-points, you can use the relevant URL's to display only the category needed. But the display mode will of course be the same for the whole component.

If you need more than one category-level, p.ex. because each committee needs to have sub-cats on its own, or if categories should have different display modes, you are stuck with the original component.

A solution to that is to install the AkoStaff component several times.
Of course these 'childs' of AkoStaff must have different names.
You take the original AkoStaff component zip-file.
Then you replace in all files and in the file-names all occurencies of 'AkoStaff' with whatever text you like, p.ex. "Committee1".
If all replacements are ok, you can install the new component(s) the usual way and manage them thru the component menu.

It works for me.
Have fun..:-)
rgds
Thomas

Alaskan

Thanks Thomas!
How do you find the relevant URLs to have a link or menu item point to just a category? I tried a few times and it always went to the whole list (displayed all categories on one page). I think I am missing something here. ha!
I haven't yet tried to install the component twice by renaming files. I thought there was a nifty component or tool that copied a component or allowed someone to install multiples instances but I can't find that or reference to it anymore.
Thanks for your help!