Confusing setting Articles to List in menu item List All Categories

[ghost]

Page Pagination display in blog layout of subcategories is dependent on a setting in tabulator "List Layouts" (and a bit confusing at all if you don't know it).

Test:

• Create a main category (level 1) + one subcatecory (level 2)
  To go shure check in subcategory: Tab Options > Alternative Layout > Use Global (or Blog if you have other setting in global options).
• Create/move/copy 11 or more articles in/to subcatecory. Subcategory must not have an own menu item!
• Create menu item "List All Categories" pointing to main category.
• Go to tab "Blog Layout"
  Set options:
• Leading Articles: 1
• Intro Articles: 1
• Columns: 2
• Links: 1
• Go to tab "List Layouts"
  Set option:
• Articles to List: ALL
• Save. Open menu item in frontend. Click subcategory link. You'll see a blog layout (but not all articles. Just 3.).
• Without page pagination!
• Go back to menu item in backend.
• Go to tab "List Layouts"
  Set option:
• Articles to List: 5
• Now there's a page pagination in frontend blog (with 3 articles but not 5).

EDIT-> Looks like there are some deeper dependicies that fail. Depends on the combination of "Articles to List" and values in Tab "Blog Layout" if you see pagination or not.

[ghost]

OK, I think this is a known "problem" since ever with blogs under List All Categories. We don't have a line

<field name="layout_type" type="hidden" default="blog" />

or similiar in default.xml of this view. So the blog is handled like a list at some places in code. An additional switch "Handle as Blog: Y|N" would be too much

There's an option "Choose a Layout" (category_layout) in global settings but I don't know how to get "layout_type" from XML file of this selected layout in cateory model.

Please feel free to close this issue if you think "Who cares?" ;-)

[pe7er]

Thank you for reporting this issue.
However, I am not able to reproduce it on basis of your description: In Menus > mainmenu > create new menu > type: Category Blog,
I can set the "Blog Layout" but there's no tab for "List Layouts" (I can only find that in Content > Categories [Options]).

Your issue and your code suggestion seems valid, but because no one else has reported this behavior, or shown any interest in providing any code to correct it, I am closing this issue at this time. If code is provided (a pull request) it can always be re-examined.

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[zero-24]

Set to "closed" on behalf of @zero-24 by The JTracker Application at issues.joomla.org/joomla-cms/7924

[zero-24]

Closing to the reasons above by @pe7er

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