Problems in the Template Edit Style settings

christofferl

As you can see in the attached image there is no cog wheel appearing on the main menu template box. How to fix this?

christofferl

I have the JA Company template and there seems to be a problem with the main menu template module position as the small cog wheel to the upper right corner is not appear.

Please assist as I need to be use this for replacing the menu system for another.

saguaros

Hi christofferl

It's a special block inherits from T3 framework, you can see how it's declared here:

/templates/ja_company/tpls/blocks/mainnav.php

That cog icon is used to change position or hide current position, let me know how you want to do with the main menu block so I can suggest further.

Regards

christofferl

Thank you for the reply. I am not a coder but consider myself as a "super user". What I would like to achieve is to be able to place a menu module in this position. It is of vital importance to be able to do this (which is the reason for now joining Joomlart as a paying customer some days ago again).

I have tried to place this new menu module in other different positions to test that it all works, which it does perfectly.

For your info, I do not need the "nav-right" position at all (so this can be removed if needed)

Please assist on how to fix this.

Thank you in advance.

saguaros

christofferl

If you don't want to use the default menu, you can remove it and add a new position to that place in the 'mainnav.php' file as I mentioned above.

You will need to create a new module position and load that position in this mainnav block like the 'nav-right' position now.

<?php if ($this->countModules('nav-right')) : ?>
<div class="nav-right pull-right">
	<!-- HEAD RIGHT -->
	<jdoc:include type="modules" name="<?php $this->_p('nav-right') ?>" style="raw" />
	<!-- //HEAD RIGHT -->
</div>
<?php endif ?>

christofferl

christofferl
Great. I will try this and let you know how it goes.

Does this change that I will do need to be done everytime I make an upgrade of the framework or template?

saguaros

christofferl

You can try that file and see how it goes first.

Then copy it to this directory: /templates/ja_company/local/tpls/blocks/mainnav.php

Create the 'local' folder if it doesn't exist now, everything you override inside this local folder will not be affected when updating new version of template.

christofferl

HI again, sorry about this. I need a more elaborate description on how to do this. As you can see in the attached image I got an extra nav-right box now which did not help me.

What should be removed and what should be added in the mainnav.php file? Are there any other php files that need to be edited?

christofferl

Ah, sorry I sent the message the same time as you replied 😉

We are getting closer to a solution. So, I created the mainnav.php in the /templates/ja_company/local/tpls/blocks folder ... and copied into this file your code above... but now the menu is "cut" so that it starts from the middle and goes to the right as you can see in the attached image.

The layout looks like this now:

You can see this, now not so good looking menu, live here: https://confivo.se/

Hope to hear from you soon!

saguaros

christofferl

Could you share the admin + FTP account of your site? I will take a look.

Regards

christofferl

saguaros

Thank you! I have now updated with the requested information. Let me know if you need further details!

christofferl

Please let me know the progress here as my site is live with the "error". Thank you in advance.

saguaros

christofferl
As I can see that your site is loading fine now, which 'error' is here?

saguaros

For the mainnav block, I changed a little bit to:

<?php if ($this->countModules('nav-right')) : ?>
<div class="container <?php $this->_c('nav-right') ?>">
	<!-- HEAD RIGHT -->
	<jdoc:include type="modules" name="<?php $this->_p('nav-right') ?>" style="raw" />
	<!-- //HEAD RIGHT -->
</div>
<?php endif ?>

Kindly check.

christofferl

I was referring to that the main menu was misplaced as the "error". But now it seems to be working fine. Thank you!!