TOPIC: Browse Detail-Page Articles & Flexicontent integration

Possibility of browsing into existing articles, in order to easily select the one we want to link to, from one specific location (marker).

I would even suggest to integrate it with Flexicontent, as I'm working with both components (Hotspots & Flexicontent) in a project, and if they were really integrated it would be awesome, they would supply so powerfull and extremely flexible possibilities in any project involving geo-localitzation (real states, rural turism, government sites, etc...)

So you click a button - a module window opens and you navigate to the desired article? (the same way as you do this in an article menu item?)

I've never worked with flexi - I'll have to check it out first.

Yes, Exactly, that's what I ment. In this moment (correct me if i'm wrong), if you want to link a location marker to an article, you have to select "Link to --> an article" and then write the article ID on the Long Description field. Which is a little bit confusing at the beginng (at least for me). Maybe it's not a big deal for us (people used to Joomla), but if we think in final clients (if we are selling the project to a third company, which is my case), then it would be way easier for them to directly select the article from a navigation window.

I know the HTML Long Description itself is a very good approach for this, but for a non "computer-savy " persons it gives too much freedom, and the resulting "detail page" could be a mess, it could also "destroy" the template, as they can add too many things, different image sizes, probably a huge one.. you know... And of course the visual aspect could be a mess aswell...

That's why I thought Flexicontent was a great solution, as it allows defining specific types of articles, so you can define -for example- a type of article called "Apartments" which has several fields: address, square feet, price, number of bedooms, checkboxes to select if it has terrace, patio, tv, wifi, full furnished, etc. And a particular number of images that you can upload to be shown in pre-defined areas (div's). It even allow you to build a defined template for this particular article. That's why I thought hostpots & flexicontent together would be very powerfull!

Besides this, maybe it's because I'm using JCE Editor, I don't know If it happens with other WYSIWYG Editors. The thing is, when I introduce the articule ID in the Long Description field, the resulting link introduces <p> and </p> tags. For example, if my article ID is 5, the resulting link to the article is: whatever.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id= <p>1</p>

Actually works, but could be a problem. Maybe when it comes to SEO Friendly URLs (haven't tried yet, but I need them to be SEO friendy)

Another idea: sometimes you don't need to just link to an article alone, you may want other modules loading in the destiny page,. In that case what you really want is to link to a menu item (which allows loading other modules envolving the article). For that case I tried typing not only the article id but the item id too. Following the previous example, if article ID is 5, and Menu Item Id is 7, I would type id=5&Itemid=7

It is a fix, but it can be improved, and again (at least for me) the resulting link for the example would be:
index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=<p>5&Itemid=7</p>

with those <p> and</p> tags.

Apologizes for my poor English