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jleger, this is good news, you are lucky you can use it! Is there any way you could share this extension with us?

Loved this module for J1.5, sad that it has not been updated for 1.6/1.7, so I took it upon myself to do so. Hopefully the authors don't mind. I'd be happy to share it with them. Its really just a small change to the SQL in the helper.php file and updating the install XML file. I have not done any extensive testing as yet, but it appears to be working properly on my dev site. I would offer this on their support forums but I would have to pay to do so. If someone from their site would like to contact me, I'd be happy to share my updated code.

I think this is a great extension for J1.5 but I cannot make it work with 1.6 - no parameter options for the module display in the module manager. I tried several different ways of forcing it into submission with no luck.

I'll try again when there is a 1.6 compatible version.

Thanks to the devlopers of this module I can now have a faq module on my site which also connects with core content. Why is this good ? because the entries will show up on search results but also on the alphacontent search results. It also doesnt conflict with other faq comps and modules. Well done it would be great if the developers could include a hit counter, rating and instructions of how to make it appear on a blank page as unlike a component you cant just select it from the menu manager options.

Thanks again for the free module
DF

Just what I was looking for, something simple to use that I can set up for my clients that uses standard J! articles. Thanks :)

love your work people, keep up the good job

No words are available in the dictionary or in my vocabulary to describe how Good the module and Support are. I had a problem running the module and seeked their help via their forum and a couple of hours later, I got a response with an easy solution and it resolved my issue. Again, the problem was mine and not the Module. Thank you Jason and everybody else at joomlabamboo

Very easy to use FAQ using your Joomla Article Manager. Article Titles are the Questions and the Article Content is the answer. How easy is that!

I did mine like "thomasmes" below using the module in content. It words great!

It's the best FAQ for Joomla!

Thank you

Love this module, but wanted to add a few clarifying points to the excellent step-by-step guide posted by 'thomasmes' below (Oct 14, 2009 post) for those, like me, who are new to Joomla. This assumes you're creating a new FAQ from scratch, and can be modified for those trying to use existing content:

Step 1: install module, enable and publish to appropriate template position
Step 2: Create an UNCATEGORIZED article containing "{loadposition FAQ}"
Steps 3: in the latest release, after creating a new section and category (probably each named "FAQ") you simply choose the proper sect/category combination from a drop-down list in the module
Step 4: add menu link to the article created in Step 2 (most users will end up adding a menu item to their Main Menu entitled ("FAQ", "About", etc.) Choose "Article" as the menu item type, then select the specific article in the Parameters portion of the form)
Step 5: Add your questions/answers as new articles under the FAQ section/category. The article title will be the "question", while the article text will be the "answer".

Don't worry if you have a long question that turns into an unruly, long article title. In most cases these 'articles' won't be viewed as individual pages, but will appear on a single page {yoursite/menu item alias.html} in collapsed form, to be expanded by your readers' clicks.

However, if you do select "Yes" under the "Show Read More Link" in the module parameters (e.g., you have a long individual FAQ entries), you can adjust the article alias field accordingly to avoid a crazy-long URLs, as each FAQ will need to be read on a separate page. However, with Readmore set to "yes" I found ALL faq entries, even those with no ReadMore's inserted in the article, still appeared with the Readmore link in the FAQ.

Installation was a bit tricky, but the forum post a few down from here really helped streamline this ... however, newer version of the module no longer require you to remember the section and category number.

Also, editor's not about required registration for download seems to be out of date. I did not register on the author's site.

My only issue right now is the difference in performance between the demo and the installation on my site. Demo shows a very clean interface with completely collapsed questions, but this appears to be dependent on a feature the author has developed in one of their templates. In my installation the FAQ answer shows as a flattened line, close/open do nothing and clicking on an item launches it to a separate pane.

Possibly user error ... next stop user forums.

This module works great and works as described. The only problem I have is it doesn't work well if you break your FAQs out to multiple categories. While you can display multiple categories, there is no way to group them together or distinguish them.

If you try to separate them by using multiple modules within an article or page, the java script seems to act funky. The more instances of this module you have on the same page, the more times it will open/close. If you have 3 instances of this module for 3 different categories, each time a user trys to expand an faq item, it will expand and collapse 3 times.

So, it works great as long as you only have one instance on a page at a time.

This module is very good and the display of the content if what every FAQ should be.

The installation can be a bit difficult, but if you follow the steps on their website you should be fine. Summary of steps:
1: install the module in Joomla
2: create an article on your website with {loadposition FAQ} as text. Make sure you use {loadposition FAQ} and not { loadposition FAQ } (with spaces).
3: create a new section (i.e. called "faq") and remember the id
4: create a new category (i.e. called "faq") and remember the id
5: got to the module admin and fill in "FAQ" as the position and fill in the section and category id's
6: create a link to the article created in step 2.
7: add all your questions (as articles) under the section and category created in step 4 and 5

I love this module but it has a seriously annoying flaw, when displaying all articles from a section, I would love the module to list the articles in a categorical view with the category name as the headings.

In other words, when configuring the module to display and entire section of articles, there should be an option to display the articles in its separate categories with the category title as the heading above each category. If the user chooses not to display it like that, the user should be able to disable it and it should just show all articles in one big list. In order to do it the way I want, I have to go and create a copy of the module for each category and load the instance of that module on the same content page multiple times just to display the layout the way I want it.

Another thing I would love added is the ability to sort the articles alphabetically under each listing. At the moment, the sorting is defaulting to the article ID which is not always nice.

Other than these 2 issues, I LOVE this module! I would have given it an excellent if it had these features. I hope to see these changes in the future.

a very good extension but it has a issue... it reserves the space for expanding in IE 7, making the site with a very big height, and a very big empty space on the bottom...
it is not a big thing but it would be nice to be resolved... thanks

I like the demo and think it is something that I could use, however, it is not very user friendly and I am still trying to figure out how to add Questions to the FAQ module.

This module is rather good but it would have been excellent if the author could explain it with simple words. For a rookie this is nearly impossible to understand. With only one sentence everything work with 15 min work.
Enable "Content - Load Module" plugin and the steps explained will wotk rather easy.
But if you don't know that one plugin you'll be messing around for a long time without any results what so ever.

This is a great extension and I'm happy to have come across it. It was a little tough at first to figure out how to use it (the documentation skips a few steps).

The only problem I've encountered is in Internet Exlorer (both 6 and 7), where the plus sign icon is cut off when the question is more than one line long. It would also be nice if on questions that are multiple lines, the second line would be indented so that the plus sign is hanging by itself on the left.

I am building my first website and this program worked great. I did have some set-up issues, but the support was outstanding. The fix for the multiple article issue was simple once I understood what to do (remember - newbie).

Under the Module Parameters enter the section ID for the FAQ section and do the same for all categories under the section, for instance:

Section ID - 25
Catergory ID - 23, 37, etc

Great program! Exactly what I wanted! I really appreciate the support!

This is a very nice FAQ module; however, I am not able to use it because I seem to have no control over which Joomla document Section/Categories are included in the FAQ list.

It appears that the only way to have an article omitted from the FAQ list is to not assign it to a Section/Category.

I must use Sections/Categories for JoomSuite Membership. I'd like only those articles included in a FAQ category to be listed in this module.

Just another module to list articles from sections or categories - not even selectable by a dropdownlist but by typing in (!) ids into the parameters ... download the thumbsup module, thats 10 times better.