Strange behavior of grouping data

[uvrenight]

Hi everybody,
this is my first post in this group.
I'm a new user of this wonderful component, but I have good experience with the old FacileForm component.

Joomla 2.5.6 Fabrik 3.0.6 and last SVN update from Github.

I have a list of italian cities categorized by zone.
I have a simple list with these fields

• id
• date_time
• name
• zone

The associated MySQL table is "fbk_cities".

In my list view I want to group those cities by zone.
So I have set the "Group By" to "zone" and the "Front-end template" to "Zone: {fbk_cities___zone}".

When I go to the front-end and I view this list, I can't obtain the result I wanted.
What I see is "Zone: {fbk_cities___zone} ( 10 )" below the table header, instead above the table header, and a strange count in parenthesis while I didn't set up any counting.
And more, the placeholder doesn't work.

Where I am wrong?
Thanks.

 

[troester]

The groupheading position is below the header (which is displayed only once), you can open/close the grouped record with the little triangle.

Count in paranthesis = number of records in this group.

The placeholder is working on my site, maybe you have a typo; the placeholder must contain the full element name (best is to copy/past from the element list)
But if you want to display only the "grouped" element you don't need to put anything into the template; then this element is inserted automatically.

 

[uvrenight]

The fact is that I've followed the tutorial "Table Grouping" and when I wrote "I can't obtain the result I wanted", I thought at the layout designed in that tutorial.
Maybe I'm making a mistake, because the tutorial was made in Fabrik 2 (right?) while I use Fabrik 3.
This could make a difference?

The placeholder, instead, isn't working on my site.
I have copied and pasted the full element name as you say, but in the front end it isn't rendered in the right way.
Maybe this is a bug? Because I followed "line per line" the tutorial above.

For the number in parenthesis, I've understood what was. Is it possible to remove it from the visualization?

 

[troester]

Groupheading layout has changed in Fabrik3.

If you want to omit the (x) I would do it with a custom template:

• Form templates
• List templates

Copy your list template folder, edit default.php, in line 74 (assuming you've copied the "default" template ) delete

( <?php echo count($group)?> )

and select this template in your list settings.

Placeholder: make sure to have no spaces inside the {}

 

[uvrenight]

SOLVED!
Thank you Troaster, your explanations are very useful! Thank you again.

I have also found the problem for the placeholder: the problem was not in typing the full element name, but in a not correct use of it. In fact I was using the element of a DBJ table.
I'm sorry for that.

Bye.