Hi Vince,

I just tried this on my test server, with the latest version of com_linkr. It seems to work fine, when accessing the article via a menu link, or accessing it via a linkr link inside another article. I tried it with both SEF URLs off, and turned on (using standard Joomla SEF).

I did notice that with SEF turned off, the URLs coming out of com_linkr are a bit mangled, though Joomla still managed to decipher them.

e.g. index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=3%3Anewsflash&id=42%3Anewsflash-4&Itemid=29

The two "%3A" things in there should be ":" I think. Perhaps these are confusing things?

Could you write back with the exact URLs that are appearing on the page that works, and the one(s) that don't work? There must be some kind of difference between the two. It would also help if you could repeat the experiment with SEF URLs turned off completely.

Thanks,
Stephen

Hi Vince,

the difference between the ones that work and the ones that don't work is that the ones that *do* work have Itemids. You can see that with SEF on, the one the works has transformed itself into a proper SEF URL, while the other one starts with "component/content...".

I wonder if you might have used the "Menus and menu items" selector as well as the article selector, in the same rule? If so, MetaTemplate will be trying to match both the article id AND the menu item. So without the Itemid, no URL is going to make the rule succeed.

Cheers,
Stephen