News Show Pro GK5 Article Ordering

I am using the News 2 Template for Joomla 3.x

I don't think I understand the Data Source options for News Show Pro GK5 Module, particularly as it relates to News Order; News Sort Order; and First news number. I am inputting news stories and a news story from 2012 is showing up on the home page in the Highlights - Right II module and I have several stories from 2014.

In addition to the specific categories selected, here are my Data Source specs:

News Order - By Date
News Sort Order - Descending
First News Number - 0

Where does the First News Number come from? What field is this?


Please advise.

Thanks,

Ruth

Hi

First news number is telling module how many articles from the top of ordering should not be displayed. So it you want to show latest articles set it to 0 than sort order set to date and select descending option. This way module will show the most recent articles.

Hi - I think I found a bug in the NSP GK5 (v. 1.8.3):
Module mode: speaker's list; settings: 4 columns by n rows (it doesn't matter - it could be 1, 2, etc.)
Data source: K2 categories; News sort order (and that's the problem): set to Ascending (works OK if set to descending)
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the problem appears in small tablet or vertical tablet view, where the expected outcome for 4 columns / 1 row collapses into 2 col/2 rows:
(1) (2)
(3) (4)
but it actually does this:
(1) (2)
__ (3)
(4) __
---> if you add another row of items, it will look like this:
(1) (2)
__ (3)
(4) __
(5) (6)
__ (7)
(8) __
---> so the behavior repeats in 3rd and 4th column in each row
* BTW, the " __" represents empty space (the editor removes the spaces so I forced the "look" with the "_")

Hope you can look into this - thanks,
AZ

Actually - there seems to be more: there seems to be correlation between News Order and News sort order: the problem described above also occurs in a "Descending" setting when the following News order is set:
1) by publish up date
2) by publish down date
3) by modification date: this one is little different: only LAST TWO items are 'dislocated':
(1) (2)
(3) (4)
(5) (6)
__ (7)
(8) __

4) by order: same as by modification date
5) by hits amount: this one is even weird(er):
(1) (2)
__ (3)
(4) __
(5) (6)
(8) (7)
6) by rating: same as by hits amount

by title, by random order, by user input appear OK - that is, the columns collapse 4 - 2 - 1 as intended.

=> tested on mac (10.10.3) in Chrome (42.0.2311.152 (64-bit)) and Safari (Version 8.0.6 (10600.6.3)) on iPad Air

Hi

I think I know what is wrong. Please tell me the url to the page where You are using this module and make sure it's showing it wrong. This looks to be a problem when news boxes doesn't have the same height and not a problem with module order itself.