Yes, I see. Sorry.
In fact, all publishing a
Table - Content Section link helps to do, now that I look at it more closely, is to normalize the ItemIDs shown in
blog listings.
You are correct that ItemIDs in
Table - Content Category listings are different, and also that if you create an individual menu item for a content item then it receives yet another ItemID.
Using SEFAdvance helps to solve the problem because it needs to identify and use a single ItemID in order to function, and has an effective method of doing that, but there is no perfect solution to this. It is a problem which goes right to the core of the system and explains why a major overhall is in the pipeline (don't get too excited - it's a long pipeline - think trans-Siberian - although the devs are going at a cracking pace, so Vladivostok might just creap up on us like a fog in the Sea of Okhotsk before we know it!)
All you can do really is juggle blog listings and menu items around until things, whilst not perfect,
make sense to your site visitors.
Remember, they will not have a clue about all this back-end stuff and will not notice the problems you agonize over, provided you are clever with your site architecture and menu structure. Look around the Joomla.org site and see if you notice the problems as an ordinary visitor. It all works fine, looks nice and makes sense, because it has been designed to play to Joomla!'s strengths (particularly with the menu setup and the use of blog items without read-more links). They don't try to force it to do stuff it is in reality unhappy with (yet
appears designed to do). Though it is annoying to realize that, I know.
Just don't expect it to automatically and tidily do all the stuff it seems to be designed to do, and all will be well! By the time you have finished, the back end is going to be a bit of a jumble that only you understand (and then only after reading your notes), whatever happens. Joomla is fantastic and can do a lot - just not as neatly as you thought!
You can get the same effect as a Table - Content Category in a Category Blog by adjusting the parameters (though you will have to hack a little to remove the
More... line), so why not replace those for starters. They will pick up the ItemID of the Table - Content Section.
Then either use parameters to remove the links to categories from the Table - Content Section listings (and rely only on your category blog menu links), or do a little hacking to make them into categoryblog links instead.
See
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic ... l#msg97461 for a little insight, though it doesn't solve this precise problem.
Don't forget about Static Content Items. Very useful for the pathway because it simply reflects their menu hierarchy.
For menu links to content items which are already shown in a section or category listing, use a manually typed URL menu item and copy the URL from the one in the listing. Delete everything before index.php eg. your URL might be
Code:
index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=174
Do not rely on Joomla! to make the link for you, or you will get yet another ItemID (which can actually be useful if you want to show the same item with different modules).
Of course, the problem with URL menu links is that you can forget active menu item highlighting. But then that feature and the pathway only ever work nicely for certain types of site, and it doesn't look like yours is going to be one of them...
Look forward to hearing how you get on. Don't give up. Be creative!
And please do document anything useful you discover, especially about ItemID workarounds.
