The "viewAuthor" was "ucAuthorView"

With "ucAuthorView", I can browse featured articles by author even if there is no categories assgined to this article (which I thought was a very cool feature, and those featured articles are often the bio/intro about authors).

With "viewAuthor" (after upgrading to the new NA module) all the featured articles by different authors are no longer showing when browsing by author - unless assigning a category.

This is a big problem to me. I want people to be able to see the featured articles on top when browsing by author, but I don't want those featured articles showing on that category page. It was working perfectly before. But now if I assign a category to a featured article by an author, this featured article will also show on the module's category page ( which is a long list) - this is something I don't want.

Is this something could be fixed or I have to reconstructure my site's content?

Thanks!

1.) Featured articles not shown on author's page (unless assigned to a category)

-- That's right.

If we don't assign a category to an article, then it won't appear on the category page, so this shouldn't be an issue.

I'll have to check the code, but I'm a little stumped on why this would be occurring unless you have a category filter switched on the for the module instance.

-- Sorry I should've said the module's landing page instead of the category page ( like you said the module instance filtered by a category). An author often belongs to multiple categories (and possibly multiple module instances) so it would be helpful if we can have the option not to assign any categories for featured articles otherwise those featured articles will be shown everywhere.

I think you created the article by using the module which has filter setting as "All Categories". Yes in that case the featured article will be shown on both landing page and author page even if no categories assigned.

And yes I have the module that is filtered by category. Without assigning any category (ONLY assign the author) the featured articles will be shown on author's page but not on the landing page. And also the featured articles WITH categories assigned will be shown on the landing page. This is exactly what I wanted and my site has been like this for almost two years.

The newer NA version has changed this without me doing anything. All my featured articles (with NO categories assigned but author assigned) dissapearred after upgrading.

So that means the newer NA version has some changes on this part. I wonder if this is something you are aware of and this is a change that has to be made for the new version. Or is this something that can be fixed.

Thanks!

Thanks for checking that out.

I just tried the latest install. The same... The featured articles assigned to an author don't show if no category selected. They will be shown on author's page if category is seleted. But they will be shown on the module's landing page as well.