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[James Weston Friend James WestonJoin date: September 2014Posts: 1030Downloads:11Uploads:70 Thanks: 408 Thanked: 16 times in 1 posts]

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Hi Guys,

Probably a silly question but am using JA Tiris and want to allocate one of the pages on the main menu to be a blank page that I can then position modules in. So for example this page http://www.myjakartaconcierge.com/index.php?option=com_jshopping&controller=category&task=&category_id=&manufacturer_id=&label_id=&vendor_id=&page=&Itemid=587&lang=en would not have any of the shopping categories at the top just the JAKARTA’S BEST RESTAURANTS module at the bottom.

Cant work out which Menu Item Type to pick.

Jim

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#436428

Hi Jim,

Use different template profile for the pages you want to display only modules and not the main content area. And use different profile for the pages having main content area.. In both these profiles all the settings will be same to maintain site consistency only except the param Hide main Content, which you need to set to NO to display main content area and YES for the pages where you only want show the modules and skip the main content area..

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1. James Weston

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#436429

Sorry Himangi,

I don’t understand. For example I have on the top menu a button called restaurants. I want to set that so it just has modules that i assign to it. However, when I click on the Menu Item Type i can’t work out which type to choose?

Jim

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#436433

If you do not want to show the content which is displayed as per the menu type you have chosen then it does not matter which type you choose.
e.g. , currently I see the Restaurants menu item is set to some Jshopping component type of menu. But you do not want to show whatever categories being shown because you have selected that particular menu type. So since this content is not meant to show you can choose any type.. Then assign the modules you want to show on this menu item..

So currently to have output like in screenshot below, follow the steps and that will do it.

1. Go to Tempalte manager > JA tempalte > Profiles tab and choose some profile which is not being used for all pages.
2. Find the Hide main content block as shown in the second screenshot attached and set it to NO.
3. Using Page assignments, choose Restaurants menu under Pages and choose the profile under Profiles for which you have set to hide the main content block.
4. Save the template and check Restaurants page from frontend.

Please note that you do not need to make any changes in the menu item type as of now. First follow the steps and see if that achieves what you want, if it doesnt then let me know.

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1. James Weston

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#436436

sorry tried that. I chose the profile BROWN, when I changed it all that happens is this http://www.myjakartaconcierge.com/index.php?option=com_jshopping&controller=category&task=view&category_id=10&manufacturer_id=&label_id=&vendor_id=&page=&Itemid=587&lang=en

Jim

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#436440

Hi,

Can you please provide site admin details.. will implement what I am saying and you can check settings then.. It seems you havent changed the layout and theme to match the settings in the other profile being used..

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#436442

thanks have sent you a pm

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#436446

Hi,

Please check page Restaurants and check the Hide Main content block and Theme settings in the Brown profile, changed to match as in the Default profile.

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1. James Weston

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#436450

<em>@himangi 298113 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi,

Please check page Restaurants and check the Hide Main content block and Theme settings in the Brown profile, changed to match as in the Default profile.</blockquote>

Hi Himangi

Thanks for that. I have now realized that maybe this is not going to solve my problem as it turns off the content block on every page within the restaurant section 🙁

I created the custom HTML module to display a list of the restaurant categories and then the idea was when you click on one it goes to the link that is the is jshooping results. Now of course that does not happen as when you click on the link it goes to that page but has no content 🙁

Thanks

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#436463

Please check now.

I have removed the page assignment I did earlier and now I have duplicated your restaurants list module and shown it on Restaurants menu which is now linked to a single article containing that module. I have changed the itemids of links in the modules to a newsly created menu item in Unpublished Menu container. And the duplicated module is displayed on this new menu item..

Let me know if this works now.. If it does then you will need to publish the modules you want to show on the Restaurants pages on this menu item, if the module is not published on all pages.

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1. James Weston

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#436573

Thanks Himangi,

That looks to have done the trick. Does this mean that each time I add a new category to the module I need to add it to both modules?

Jim

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#436579

Unfortunately with this setup, yes you need to implement any change in both the modules..

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1. James Weston

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#436626

Himangi,

You are an absolute genius. That is working great and actually having two modules the same means when I work on one if I stuff it up I can now go and get the code from the other one to fix it 🙂

Himangi, could you tell me which CSS file i need to go to to make the module move down the page a little bit when there are products on the page http://www.myjakartaconcierge.com/index.php?option=com_jshopping&controller=product&task=view&category_id=45&product_id=175&Itemid=592&lang=en I would like to move it down the page a bit so it is not so close to the bottom of the information about the restaurant.

I was thinking I might also try and put a background colour and box around it like they did here http://www.londontown.com/restaurants But that will be a job for another day.

Really appreciate all your guidance and clever ideas to solve the issues that I have had.

Best regards,

Jim

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#436629

Hi Jim,

Thank you for your kind words ! 🙂

In your template.css find
<blockquote>.ja-mass-bottom {

}</blockquote>

And add combination of following styling to see what suits your needs..

<blockquote>margin-top: 40px;
border: 2px solid;
background: #CCC;
padding: 5px;
margin: 5px;</blockquote>

In my opinion following is looking better..
<blockquote>.ja-mass-bottom {
margin-top: 40px;
border: 2px solid;
}</blockquote>

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1. James Weston

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#436632

Cheers that looks great.

Jim

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