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[lcgrant Friend lcgrantJoin date: August 2007Posts: 12Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#121986

I’m using Joomla 1.5 with the Ja Teline template installed with the Legacy plug-in. When I try to follow the set-up instructions it tells me to create a Position for ja-tabs and ja-news but I don’t have the Position option in Module Manager or in Template Manager.

What am I doing wrong?

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#226939

<em>@lcgrant 24254 wrote:</em><blockquote>I’m using Joomla 1.5 with the Ja Teline template installed with the Legacy plug-in. When I try to follow the set-up instructions it tells me to create a Position for ja-tabs and ja-news but I don’t have the Position option in Module Manager or in Template Manager.

What am I doing wrong?</blockquote>

I’m not sure what you mean by “you don’t have the position option.”

To create a position, you simply type that position name into one of the open/empty fields within your Module Positions administration.
The path within your Joomla Control Panel is is Site -> Template Manage -> Module Positions

That’s all there is to it. When you go back to your Module Manager and you want to designate a position for a particular module, you will now have the newly created positions available to you within the drop down (within the module parameters area itself).

Hope that answers your question.

TOM

[MuffinDCC Friend MuffinDCCJoin date: March 2007Posts: 230Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#226965

With Joomla 1.5, the positions are/will be controlled in templateDetails.xml. As it is legacy mode, I am unsure but with the 1.5 conversion, I have done, you add the following to templateDetails.xml
<blockquote>
<positions>
<position>A position name</position>
<position>A position name</position>
<position>A position name</position>
</positions></blockquote>

Either way, I would not use the legacy plugin and try to convert yourself, there is enough documentation for it now.

[lcgrant Friend lcgrantJoin date: August 2007Posts: 12Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#226986

<em>@tcraw1010 24270 wrote:</em><blockquote>I’m not sure what you mean by “you don’t have the position option.”

To create a position, you simply type that position name into one of the open/empty fields within your Module Positions administration.
The path within your Joomla Control Panel is is Site -> Template Manage -> Module Positions

That’s all there is to it. When you go back to your Module Manager and you want to designate a position for a particular module, you will now have the newly created positions available to you within the drop down (within the module parameters area itself).

Hope that answers your question.

TOM</blockquote>
Thanks Tom,

That’s just it. I don’t have the Module Positions option in either Template Manager or Modules Manager for me to select.

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#226987

<em>@lcgrant 24326 wrote:</em><blockquote>Thanks Tom,

That’s just it. I don’t have the Module Positions option in either Template Manager or Modules Manager for me to select.</blockquote>

You may need to reinstall Joomla clean then … sounds like a corrupted install.

Back up your template, components, modules, etc. and reinstall would be my suggestion.

[lcgrant Friend lcgrantJoin date: August 2007Posts: 12Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#227315

I’m game. I’ve used the past day or so to learn a little php. Where would I find documentation to convert a template to Joomla 1.5?

Thanks.

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#227317

<em>@lcgrant 24782 wrote:</em><blockquote>I’m game. I’ve used the past day or so to learn a little php. Where would I find documentation to convert a template to Joomla 1.5?

Thanks.</blockquote>

I am not sure you can “convert” a template designed around Joomla 1.0 to Joomla 1.5 – at least not without some more advanced php coding skills. Many template developers are now creating Joomla 1.5 compliant templates – which suggests to me that one would need to do this first, rather than “covert” an existing template.

Don’t take my word for it, though … these are just my suppositions. Part of me thinks that you should absolutely be able to convert an existing template to 1.5 … I just don’t know how to do it.

I would think that you might be able to find more help on this topic on the Joomla forums themselves. I know for a fact that thee is a whole section of categories devoted to Joomla 1.5.

Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful – Good Luck, and let us know what you find out.

TOM

[lcgrant Friend lcgrantJoin date: August 2007Posts: 12Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#227321

I went back to the Joomla site and downloaded 1.5RC1 again, unzipped it and uploaded the files (using smartFTP) to my hosting account (Yahoo) and nothing’s changed.???!!

BTW, whenever I attempt to re-install, Joomla tells me at the end that it could not write to my configuration file. It tells me to copy the displayed code and create a configuration.php file and palce it in my root directory. Could this be part of the problem?

Thanks.

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#227322

These kinds of things are the very reason why I haven’t even touched Joomla 1.5 yet.

Until they release the final/stable version – complete with steop-by-step installation/upgrade instructions, I am not going to even bother trying to deal with the recoding and possible incompatibility issues.

Sometimes waiting a little bit longer to get that shiney new car is the best decision.

😉

[lcgrant Friend lcgrantJoin date: August 2007Posts: 12Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#227323

Thanks Tom.

I’ll check out some of the forums for version 1.5. I bought the Ja Teline template that JoomlArt claimed was compatible with 1.5 on the sign-up page but when I went to install it Joomla told me I had to use the Legacy plug-in. So I figured with the help of folks like you I could fix the situation myself. Oh well, Thanks anyway.

[TomC Moderator TomCJoin date: October 2014Posts: 14077Downloads:58Uploads:137 Thanks: 948 Thanked: 3155 times in 2495 posts]

#227331

I’m sorry I could not be of more help at present.

I’m still learning more and more myself . . . if PHP/CSS were karate, I’d be a white belt with three black stripes. 😉

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