Page Break in K2 articles

A fairly simple question, yet I have been unable to find the answer on google nor the fora.

If I use a page break in a normal Joomla article, everything works fine. If I use a page break in a K2 article, the pagebreak is simply displayed as the originally coded <hr>.

Running the lastest 2.5 version of the music template from a Quick Install.

Anyone else had this problem? and or a solution?

Thank you for your time.

My regards

Hi,

There seem to be a solution at http://getk2.org/community/New-to-K2-As ... break#3202

Dear Don Lee,

I assume that you mean that I should Install Uber Page break in order to fix the page break in K2. Or at least the "rigged" version you linked to.

So a way more simple question. Why is it that the page break doesn't work with K2?

If you ask me, and im sure many customers agree, it makes no sense in adding functionality that doesn't work with other modules that you add support for. Page breaks should be working in all articles, or it should be clear that K2 is NOT fully supported in the template.

I mean this as constructive feedback. It's not the first and will certainly not be the last bug I find in Gavick templates. A bit more thought in the product is more than due.

Regards,

Hi,

Apparently it's a problem from K2 but the template, if you change default template to another you can confirm this. Therefore what I could do was to link you to K2 community to discuss and get it fixed instead of here where we could only support well with just our products.

Thanks for understanding!

If its a problem from K2 that simply means this template does not fully support K2. This is directly true from the definition of supporting a component.

Attached you see a familiar screenshot of gavick acknowledging K2 support. This means that as a customer I can assume the modules / plug-ins / designs, provided will work with K2. And this appears not to be the case.

If pagebreak isn't working with K2, it should be stated in the template description. If Gavick builds a plug-in / pagebreak design, and advertises with K2 support, it has the responsibility to deliver working plug-ins. For now, K2 support is more than mediocre (lets not even start about gavicks facebook connect and K2 users).

I hope you can understand that this does indeed mean that we (customers) are more than entitled to come and ask here, on the gavick support forum, for an explanation and possibly a fix.

It would be nice to see that this is taken in to account in upcoming templates. Gavick delivers good products, but why stay on good, when there are the capabilities of delivering great products?

As for now, i will give this possible fix a try, to see what the result will be.

Also just tried out the pagebreak fix you sent me.

It does add a page break. But I don't seem to be able to add the same accordion like functionality that the original music template page breaks have.

Any thoughts on how to get this fixed Don?

Hi there,

I understand clearly what you as a customer expect at our products, however we should not misunderstand between the definitions of K2 Support and Support K2. Our templates support K2 BUT us, it means that we do not support for K2 BUT themselves.

What we make for our templates is that we re-design K2 classes and layouts then any K2 pages using our templates should have a compatible style with the whole site. It does not mean that we support to fix K2 issues, for example, Pagebreak is a feature/function of K2 and K2 is responsible to make it work well but somehow you know it's not working, so of course we can't fix it just because we do not develop that component. I hope you will get this.

Well, yes, you are welcome to post any problems here and there might be some expert will know to help you out, but it is always better to post issues to responsible people who are authors/developers of products, this case posting the issue to K2 is better to get better support and quicker solutions.

What I have been trying to help you out is to give you a right direction to get correct support because I can't fix such an issue though I'm glad to take time to help but when K2 does not function properly itself, we can't control it from our template side.

I will try to check the last issue for you once I have access to you site, so please send me a PM!

Regards,