Module problem - driving me nuts

[Macview]

I've successfully moved 8 sites to Mambo over the last year and I just noticed a problem in my last site (while working on my current test site) But all my other sites are fine.

For some reason the Modules for certain things (latest news, most popular) which are designated to be home only, transfer themselves (if you click on a link in them) to the articles page actually all modules which are designated to homepage only appear there. There is no rhyme or reason for this.

I tend to copy the database and files from my last successful site and do setup but even on a fresh install of Mambo (4.5.2) it happens.

Example of site is http://www.sp-mag.com, if you click on a popular item link the modules will appear with the article, but if you click on a upcoming events link it works as it's supposed to. I have even seen it work properly and not properly form two links in the same module! Both links were the same other than the id number being different.

I've tried many different things, none have worked. I think it has to do with some 3rd party module or mambot (though I don't know why) that I'm loading as It was working properly (seemed to) until I loaded a few up. Even though I deleted them it still acts wonky so I have to go back to a fresh install and use the process of elimination.

If anyone has a clue to why it's doing this I would greatly appreciate some help, thanks.

[stingrey]

The problem is caused by the rather arcane complex and totally excruiating problems caused by the itemid system in mambo.

Its one of the oldest parts of the code, going back into the mists of time and is being used far beyond its principle objective when it was created.
Unfrotunately because it affects so many things, its somethign we can only fix with a major overhaul (e.g. 5.0)


Anyway that doesnt help you.
What you need to do is create a hidden menu (e.g. a menu whose mod_mainmenu module you do not publish).
Now wht you need to do is to create a `Table - Content Section` for all your sections.

The problem is that because you have no menu item that is linked with the sections that hold your news items, the system cannot assign the contents that reside within the section an itemid, so the default setting is to use the Itemid of your 'homepage' which in this case is 1.
So when you click on any new item, the system still thinks your on the frontpage as it sees an Itemid of 1.


Put another way.

If you have two sections

News

Events

And let say in all you Menus you have a Section for Events as a menu item, which gives it an Itemid of 16.
Now all news items in the Events section will inherit an itemid of 16

But let say you News section has no link in any of your menus.
So the default behavious takes over and its is assigned an itemid of 1

[kooshin.com]

Have you checked where to show the modules ? Click on the modules and see if it says ALL in the which pages to show on I guess that is the problem .

[Macview]

You are a god in my eyes! That is it! I'm just so surprised I never had this problem before but now I know what to look for. Can't wait for the next version. Keep up the great work!

[biggazillakilla]

I have to say that this seems like a rather tedious way to write articles. For me, it seems to affect only one category. Does that mean I can just create a new category and just stop using the affected category?

[themancan]

Stingrey, that fix is unbelievable. I've searched for hours and was about to give up but finally found it.

Question: I have a menu item that is a "Blog - Content Section" with a module in the User1 section. It displays fine on the main Blog page, but when I click "Read more", I'd like the module in User1 to disappear and only have the content.

Obviously I cannot assign the position of the module because there are no menu items below the "Blog - Content Section". Must all the content within the Blog be treated the same?

I hope that makes sense. Not as big a deal as the frontpage fix, but it'd still be nice to fix it.

Example page here: http://afvsolutions.com/news/

Thanks!
-Brett