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Say you have these categories:
Food (catID 1)
Fruit (catID 2)
Vegetables (catID 3)
Bread (catID 4)

And you have these articles:
Bananas
Cherries
Carrots
Celery
Cereal
Tortillas

You organize them like this:
Bananas (Food, Fruit)
Cherries (Food, Fruit)
Carrots (Food, Vegetables)
Celery (Food, Vegetables)
Cereal (Food, Breads)
Tortillas (Food, Breads)

You make category blog menu items:
Food
Fruit
Vegetables
Bread

If you click on Food, all of the articles will appear. If you click on one the articles (or readmore):
The article appears as it should.
The parent menu item is Food.
You can navigate through the articles using Prev-Next.

If you click on Fruit, only the articles included in the Fruit category will appear (as they should). However, if you click on one of the articles (or readmore):
The article appears as it should.
The parent menu item changes from Fruit to Food.
If you navigate using Prev-Next, you will see all of the articles in Food, not the articles in Fruit.

This is because, when you click on the article, it grabs the article's catID with the lowest numeric value regardless of the category from which the article is called.

If this OK or a non-issue for you, I would recommend one of the non-commercial options. They'll do the same thing, so why pay?

In my opinion, this deficiency makes this component completely pointless. Why go to the trouble of cross-referencing your articles if the user will be taken to a completely different section of the website when they investigate an article in a category that has drawn their interest?

As far as support goes, I don't really want to get into that, but suffice it to say I am not sharing this info because the support was fabulous. The developer is aware of the issue, and I guess has chosen not to complete the component. Good enough is good enough if it keeps pulling $50 a pop, right? To his credit, the developer did offer to return my money, rather than work on the problem.

If you are wanting to create a true cross-referenced library of articles, keep looking. I am.

This extension solves a serious Joomla flaw (in my opinion), so I believe the price is justified.
However, it does not work as advertised (i.e. ability to filter articles in modules) and it seems that the developer has abandoned the project, seen how the website continues to have issues and support requests are not seemingly handled.
I would love for the project to be picked up, because multicategories are badly needed.

My findings are that is only works from the backend. If you create an article from the frontend, it does not even get one cat.
It also does not work with the News Show Pro GK4, which I was expecting, as it was promoted with, working with "Your articles & modules will now be able to appear in multiple categories."
Also already waiting for a support reply for 12 days!

I would like to add to the review of 'klox7' that this extension does not work together with form2content lite and with LoF Article Slide Show

So it is useless for us.

Also the support is NOWHERE no one answers.

I am sorry I paid for that extension. And I suggest people use other ways to accomplish the same (K2 for example)

I wish I had and I also wish someone could answer me either how to solve the problems I got or how am I going to get my money back

Hello!

I recently bought this extension and I'm really unsatisfied with it considering it's quite high price. Since there is no front or backend demo, here are some weakest points of this extension for me:

-can't asign multiple categories in frontend
-can't filter article within all categories that article is assigned to
-if article is assigned to more categories (ex. 3), there are no 3 URL's, but just one

Maybe all this is possible, but I couldn't done it because there is no documentation and nobody replies to my support tickets or mails (have open 3 tickets for 14 days now and sent 3 mails...nothing).

This component works exactly as they say it does. Very easy install. Very easy to use.

I agree a little expensive, but like the other reviewer said, well worth it for me.

We used on our Joomla 1.5 site and component worked great. We have not tried it on joomla 1.6 yet, but will be testing it out soon and will post our findings.

works perfect for me on 1.6.
easy to install and use.
just a little expensive... but definitely worth it in my case.