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The message should be pretty obvious, but what are you doing wrong? First make sure your environment meets the minimum requirements, for instance PHP version 5 is needed. Second of all make sure you have set a Category within the Menu-Item.

If you have already read the tutorial on how to use SimpleLists and the problem still persists, feel welcome to post your problem on the forum.

The component doesn't work at all

First check if you are using Joomla! versie 1.5. This component will NOT work with anything older than Joomla! 1.5 Release Candidate 3. It is not compatible with Joomla! 1.0 or Mambo.

Second of all, check that you're using the latest version of SimpleLists. There is still some work in progress. In most cases the component works fine, but bugs may still exist.

After upgrading SimpleLists, the page doesn't work anymore

The problem here is that if you deinstall a component within Joomla! you might loose your menu-item parameters as well. After reinstalling the SimpleLists component you'll need to reactivate the menu-item properties by editing the Component Parameters within the menu-item.

This problem is confirmed on Joomla! 1.5.3 and older, but might be solved in newer Joomla!^TM versions. It is not related to SimpleLists.

I've created a list but the text/image/link doesn't show up

The cool thing about SimpleLists is that it's very flexible. But - in general - the more flexible a software package is, the more you'll have to configure.

For every page you can decide whether to show the images, links or main texts of the items contained within a list. You can do this by setting the "Preferences" within the SimpleLists component (check the toolbar), or you can do this for a single list through the "Component Parameters" of the menu-item.

Toggle or hover doesn't work

You might want to make sure that the regular MooTools script of Joomla! is not overriden by any kind of module, component or template. Check the browser source of your SimpleLists page for any occurance of the script-name "mootools.js". It should only appear once.

I try to edit an item but it's locked

First of all SimpleLists works together with the regular locking of Joomla!: If somebody else is editing the item, you'll get a message telling you that the item is locked.

If you're the only one editing the item, you might be running into an old bug: The database-field "checked_out" in the table "#_simplelists" should be of the type "int(11)" and not "tinyint(11)".

Because later versions of the component allow you to uninstall the component without loosing the data within the database-table, it might be that you're stuck with this bug even after upgrading SimpleLists to the latest version.

For now try to edit the database manually for instance with a tool like PhpMyAdmin.

404 - SimpleList not properly configured

You didn't put any items in the SimpleLists category yet, or you didn't configure a category for the menu-item.

Toggle in Internet Explorer

Sometimes the toggle-layout doesn't work with Internet Explorer. This is not a problem of SimpleLists but of the MooTools Accordion used to create this effect. Ofcourse, it's actually a problem of Internet Explorer.

The Accordion-effect fails to work if the browser is put into the so-called "quirks mode". This "quirks mode" is sometimes called by the browser if some HTML-elements are messed up, but in other cases this mode is actually forced by the Joomla!^TM template by using a XML-statement at the top of the HTML-document.

If this is the case, and you're not able to change the Joomla! template to work without quirks mode, forget about this effect.

JFolder::files: Path is not a folder

When installing SimpleLists, the installer tries to create a folder to store images for the lists. This folderlocation can not be changed at the moment, but is required for SimpleLists to work correctly.

Probably the permissions on your filesystem are set too strict. You'll have to create the folder manually: The folder is called "simplelists" and is placed under the common "images" directory.

Cannot redeclare class jfilteroutput

If you get a PHP Fatal Error "Cannot redeclare class JFilterOutput" you probably have a Joomla!^TM 1.5 installation that was upgraded from a very early 1.5 version.

This problem is not related to SimpleLists but to some files still remaining within Joomla! after the upgrade. You'll need to clean up your directories otherwise some components (both from the Joomla! core as third-party) might fail.

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