[TYPO3-ttnews] startingpoint doesn't take effect?

[Bing Du]

Hi,

> Bing Du wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Typo3 V4.0.4
>> tt_news 2.4.0
>>
>> I created two sysFolders news1 and news2.  I also created several news
>> categories in both news1 and news2 sysfolder like this.
>>
>> news1 sysfolder
>>     news cat1
>>     news cat2
>>
>> news2 sysfolder
>>     news cat3
>>     news cat4
>>
>> Then I created a content element which was a news plugin that was
>> supposed to show CATMENU.  'news2' sysfolder was selected as
>> startingpoint.  I expected to see only 'news cat3' and 'news cat4' on
>> the page.  However, the page lists all the four categories.
>>
>> news cat1
>> news cat2
>> news cat3
>> news cat4
>>
>> So starting point doesn't take effect to show only selected categories?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any insight.
>>
>>
>> Bing
>
> hi,
>
> startingpoint (aka pid_list) configures only the place where the plugin
> looks for news. The categories are configured with the "General Record
> Storage Page"
>
> greets
> rupert
>
>

Thanks for helping.  If I understand what you suggested correctly, in my
case, I should put 'news2' in the General Record Storage page field of the
page properties.  I tried that.  But no difference.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Bing