Tuesday, September 28, 2010

"Global Use" Does Not Work

The Problem:

You do not want to display "Written by", "Created Date and Time" and "Modified Date and Time" in your article. In Joomla 1.5, you can set the configuration globally by setting the Parameters in the Article Manager. (Content > Article Manager > Parameters icon). So now, when you create a new article, under the Parameters (Advanced) in Article Editor, there's no need to choose the dropdown menu to hide the unwanted fields. Use Global should do the job. Right? Wrong... it doesn't work.

The Remedy:
For some reasons, the global settings (Use Global) will not work if Joomla was installed together with sample data. Just make sure, the next time you install Joomla, you do not install the sample data. Until now, we still do not find any other remedy besides this one. We'll post it here if we find any other solution to this problem.


Joomla Resources:
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