Add JA Masthead Module to 'Content Top' - JA Builder

brittambrosebracey

Hi there,

I'm using JA Builder and want to add a masthead module to a position that places the module on relevant content pages (e.g. category blog) this will make life easier than having to apply a block to each and every individual page in 'content-top'. This is far to hard for customers to manage.

Is there a default position? (I have tried most and nothing shows up - not header, not debug, not breadcrumb)

I have JA Masthead installed and assigned to relevant pages via the core menu assignment, much the way I would if I build any other Joomla site.

I tried adding some code (below) to the index.php - but I cant get anything to show. I have also added 'masthead' to the TemplateDetail as a position. Nothing shows up.

Here is what I tried in the index.php...within the 'content-top':

<?php if ($helper->pageContent('top')): ?>
<div class="content-top">
<?php $helper->_pageContent('top') ?>

		<!-- start Added Masthead -->
		
		<?php if ($this->countModules('masthead')) : ?>
		<!-- JA MASTHEAD - CONTENT ONLY -->
		<div class="ja-masthead <?php $this->_c('masthead') ?>">
			<jdoc:include type="modules" name="<?php $this->_p('masthead') ?>" style="raw" />
		</div>
		<!-- // JA MASTHEAD -->
		<?php endif ?>

		<!-- end Added Masthead -->
	</div>
	<?php endif ?>
	
	Can you please advise how I can achieve this.
	
	Many thanks
	Bri

saguaros

brittambrosebracey

Hi,

If you want to show a Joomla module in JA Builder blocks, you can try to add Spotlight block and load JA Masthead module to Spotlight block.

P/s: I tried to access backend of your site but it always redirects to homepage, if your host limits access from my place, pls add an exception for my IP here: 118.70.176.221

Regards

brittambrosebracey

Thanks
I have turned off the white IP so you should be okay to access back end now.

Very important point is - the reason for the module JA masthead is so that we can scale up the site - using category blog, and we can't ask the customer to manually add a spotlight to all the individual new pages....

If we can't achieve this is where JA Builder falls down and can only really be used for micro sites. It's something if it can't be achieved, JA should add to the priority list.

Appreciate if you can take a look. But the solution is NOT to 'manually' add a spotlight (I'm already using JA Bulider hero - but it's too manually intensive when applied to dynamic pages like category blog).

Thanks
Bri

brittambrosebracey

Ideally you will be able to get my JA Masthead to show up on this page as a masthead, as an module controlled item. http://churchill.clickhead.com.au/buy/buy-darwin/luxury-home-on-the-water-front-pool

Thanks

saguaros

brittambrosebracey

JA Builder is a bit special, could you try with the Masthead block as you're using now?

brittambrosebracey

saguaros

I guess you are basically saying you can't help me any more on this subject?

No, it's too manual with 30 plus property listings articles - sadly it sounds as though you can't achieve something quite basic like a generic position to be assigned to a core Joomla module? - I know Gridbox by Balbooa allows a generic position like 'breadcrumb' to be used for this sorrt of thing, so it is a shame that JA is so limiting in this case.

Perhaps I am not explaining my requirements well enough, but I don't think so - it's a pretty simple request.

After trying to push JA Builder so many times to make building a site easier, but at the end of the day (anything above 'static' small page sites) we hit some sort of road block every project, whenever we want to use a category blog feature- it just lacks basic scalability.

Really disappointing.

brittambrosebracey

Do you have anything to add to this issue? apart from saying JA Builder is a bit special?
I'm sure a lot of others would find this a very useful feature.

Is there any position in the content top section that we can allocate this to?