JoomlArt Advanced Custom Module - link in separate window

mberwing

Hi there,
we are using JA EventCamp and have activated JoomlArt Advanced Custom Module.
For the 'Button Link' we want to have the link in separate window in order to keep the current site open and active - but there is no option to make a selection and using html tags with
<a href="https://www.example.com" target="_blank">Linktext</a> is obviously not working in this field.

Is there any solution available here and where can we change this in the underlying code for the module ?

Thanks and regards
Markus

saguaros

HI Markus,

There are different types of JA ACM used on your site, could you tell me which one you're referring to?

mberwing

Hi saguaros,

this is a generic issue for all ACM modules.
In our example it is the ACM module on the very top of our homepage called 'slideshow' and we need to have three URLs to open in separate window.

Cheers
Markus

saguaros

Hi Markus,

I will take that Slideshow module as sample.

As you can see this JA ACM module has type of Slideshow : style-owl so you will edit this file:

/templates/ja_eventcamp/acm/slideshow/tmpl/style-owl.php

Find the line of code that renders that button and add target attribute for it.

I updated the same for line 66 on your site:

<a href="<?php echo $helper->get('data.btn-link1', $i); ?>" target="_blank" class="btn btn-lg btn-primary"><?php echo $helper->get('data.button1', $i) ?></a>

When you click the button, it will open in new window tab now.

Kindly check.

mberwing

Hi Saguaros,

perfect.....this is exactly what we want and it works fine.
I will make a note for other cases.

In general it would be great to enhance the ACM module and introduce the option to select whether link should open in same window or new one as this would be more user friendly than editing the code ;-)

Best regards
Markus