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I have spent quite some time confirming this after I first noticed it, including checking any related configurable parameters that seemed relevant, and I am reasonably satisfied that it is indeed a bug.

I have installed a new nightly - as of two days ago - installation of 1.5 to evaluate and test, using the sample data supplied.

I created a "Category List Layout"  - which I assume is the same as a "Content Table Category" in the current Joomla - to list "Latest News" for which there is 11 articles.

The listing is displaying only "Date", "Author" and "Hits" but not the associated clickable page title so basically there is nothing to click to go to the article that should be listed.

This is the URL of the home page pf the site: http://www.mindpowercorporation.com/joomla15/ you can go to the listing my clicking "Category Listing" on the menu called "Top Menu".

The direct URL to the listing is: http://www.mindpowercorporation.com/joomla15/categories.html

I assume that this must be a bug - I cannot envisage there being an obscure option to display a category listing without the actual categories.

System info:

PHP Built on:  Linux host.mindpowercorporation.com 2.6.9-023stab044.4-enterprise #1 SMP Thu May 24 17:41:23 MSD 2007 i686 
Database Version:  5.0.45-community 
Database Collation:  utf8_general_ci 
PHP Version:  5.2.1 
Web Server:  Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) PHP/5.2.1 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a 
Web Server to PHP interface:  apache 
Joomla! Version:  Joomla! 1.5.0 Production/Stable [ Takriban ] 5-October-2007 21:00 GMT 
User Agent:  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; InfoPath.2) 

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It's not obscure at all, it is right there as an option in the global parameters and also in relevant menu parameters.

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I know about those options of course and have set everything to "Show" or "Global" and in system parameters the same. I can't see any other options, that is why I said "obscure".

But in the interests of saving time, please can you specify the precise parameters you are referring to so I can check again.

Thanks.

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Go to the article manager and click on the preferences or parametersbutton (depending on which build you have the label will be different).

Then in the second grouping, set Category Title and Category Title Clickable.

That will do it globablly.

For article level:

Category Title
Category Title Linkable

about 1/3 of the way down the advanced list.

For menu links look in the component parameters in the second grouping.


Added:

But keep in mind that there are definitely some bugs in the parameter cascade. if yousearch this forum for cascade you will get more detail.

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Thanks - that did it.

I would definitely say that is obscure though. By definition the Category Listing should produce all relevant information, and not leave a blank space where the object of the listing should be - the clickable links. I doubt whether many, if anyone would think to look in the Article parameters for a Menu option.

May I suggest that either the parameters you mentioned are set to on or "yes" by default, or there is corresponding parameter set within the Category Listing options so it can be over-ridden.

But thanks again - it is nice to know it does work

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Strangely enough this was in the changelog @ 9377

For /administrator/components/com_content/config.xml

Change linked titles to default="1"
That way a simple section or category link gives a simple linked list of articles.

Change show_category to default="1"
Change link_category to default="1"
That way a simple section link will give a list of categories that are linkable.


Change show_item_navigation to default="1"
This will generally make it easier for beginners to navigate their sites

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That sounds perfect - I guess others must be thinking in the same way

I am not sure what version I have  - it was installed 3 days ago - but when will this be changed and live for downloadable versions in accordance with the changelog?

Thanks again for all your help. 1.5 looks exceptional - looking forward to the final release!

Best regards,

Adrian.

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This seems like a silly way to implement things.

I don't want the article title to show on each page.

But, if I set the article title to not be shown I cannot have a Category List/ Section List page because the titles aren't shown in the list of articles.

What's the point in an empty list?

Thanks alot for this, been trying for days to figure out how to do this!

6 years later and this is still a useful post! Woot. Thank you.