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#174593

I have used MegaMenu successfully on a number of sites in J 1.5, 1.7

I am transferring sites to J 2.5
For one site I have selected JA Elastica

One menu element, About Us, has children. I cannot make the child menu appearance a roll over function.

For the parent I have set Parameters JA Extended to
Show Title, Yes
Description, Given
Group, Yes
SubMenu Width, 200
Content, Child Menu Items

For the child
Show Title, Yes
Description, none
Group, no
Conten, Child Menu Items

This combination does work in other contexts. What have I done wrong?

Thank you

Tony Davis

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#441747

Hi

I don’t know if it is the cause of your problem or not but I don’t see in your post that you have added anything into the columns field.

This is from my elastica from a menü item that has children.

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#441763

Sorry, I should have used images shouldn’t I?

Here are the values at present as images.

This is what the menu shows without the cursor over About Us. I would like the child menu to disappear and only emerge on hover over About Us

And this is the Parameter file for About Us

And for Privacy Policy

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#441765

Well, the immediate difference I see just between the images is that you have Group set to yes, I don’t. See if that fixes it first. It should.

* Meant to say, make sure you clean the JAT 3 cache.

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#441768

Thanks for that.

When I set the Group to No what happens is that the sub menu disappears but it will not reappear when I hover over the parent.

That is what happens in my 1.7 examples.

Mystified. Very obsessional JAT 3 Cache cleaner 🙂

Tony
(in Wengen)

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#441769

It appears that it is a javascript problem.

In the example which works the menu finishes with an included script which is

<script type=”text/javascript”>
var megamenu = new jaMegaMenuMoo (‘ja-megamenu’, {
‘bgopacity’: 0,
‘delayHide’: 300,
‘slide’: 1,
‘fading’: 0,
‘direction’:’down’,
‘action’:’mouseover’,
‘tips’: false,
‘duration’: 300,
‘hidestyle’: ‘fastwhenshow’
});
</script>
Whereas in the new version it is

<script type=”text/javascript”>
var megamenu = new jaMegaMenuMoo (‘ja-megamenu’, {
‘bgopacity’: 0,
‘delayHide’: 300,
‘slide’ : 0,
‘fading’ : 0,
‘direction’: ‘down’,
‘action’ : ‘mouseover’,
‘tips’ : false,
‘duration’ : 300,
‘hidestyle’: ‘fastwhenshow’
});
</script>

The difference being that slide is set to 1 presumably meaning it will slide down on mouseover, while 0 in the new one means it does not.

How can I get that to change?

Thanks

Tony

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#441770

Greetings to Wengen!

Never seen that before. I take it that all software is up to date via ja-ext-manager? I’m not sure I’d know where else to look apart from the settings in template manager – that menü settings are set megamenü, start level 0, end level -1.

You can aways use the demo builder here, http://www.joomlart.com/demo/#joomla17-templates.joomlart.com/ja_elastica, to compare settings.

Grüsse from 4WSS.

This post redundant after you posting js issue.

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#441773

Tony,

I’m running Joomla 2.5.1 & template 2.5.0. This is my script … as you can see it, too, has slide 0 ……and the megamenü works as it should, so not so sure it is a js issue.

</div> <script type="text/javascript">
var megamenu = new jaMegaMenuMoo ('ja-megamenu', {
'bgopacity': 0,
'delayHide': 300,
'slide' : 0,
'fading' : 0,
'direction': 'down',
'action' : 'mouseover',
'tips' : false,
'duration' : 300,
'hidestyle': 'fastwhenshow'
});
</script>
</div>


If you want to (and only if you want as I’m not a mod or JA staff etc) post a url I can see if it works for me – could be something to do with local or browser cache z.B.

Regards

The only other thing that I can suggest, seeing as they seem to be responsible for so many problems in general, is to check permissions and ownerships. I use Admin Manager from Akeeba to check/repair.

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#441898

Thank you.

I have used extmanager to confirm that I have the latest version of both Joomla and Elastica.

I have also built a demo model.

So I now have two sites – my problem site and a demo site.

On the demo site creating a top level and child menu is not problem free. Creating the new top menu item puts it in an apparently arbitrary place. It can be relocated with the ordering tools. Then the child item can be placed under it. For neither item did I make any entry in the JA Parameters section. Looking at the site it performs as expected. The javascript slide value is 0.

The same process on the problem site produces the problem as before. The menu items are there but do not display on rollover.

The link to the demo site is http://ja-elastica-j251330939821292.joomweb.com/ I played about with various combinations of About and Privacy and the current sample uses Frogs to keep the aliases separate.

The link to the problem site is http://77.72.4.66/~addacume/ and the two right hand elements of the menu have children.

Any or all insights gratefully received.

Where is 4WSS-CH?

Thanks

Tony

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#441905

Hi Tony

4WSS = Vierwaldstättersee

I think as you’ve already guessed I’m not a specialist! Can I make a couple of comments – please take them as they are meant in a positive way! 🙂

Elasitica was made to be an elastic site with the Masonry script – to make all the modules move around as the site size is changed and as you seem to have just the content box and no modules – is the best solution for you?

With regard to menu items coming up in an arbitary place – they always go into last place on the menu list. Last in, last place. Then you can assign or move them. True of any site I’ve built.

I don’t know if you have changed the css of the menu items but I can make my menu items look the same by changing off the megamenu to css or dropline etc. Then they come out in the red colour. I wonder if this has something to do with it?

Just some ideas, no solutions I know. tml.

Ciao

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#441918

<em>@swissa 305180 wrote:</em><blockquote>
4WSS = Vierwaldstättersee
</blockquote>
So near Lucerne then. Very nice.

<em>@swissa 305180 wrote:</em><blockquote>I think as you’ve already guessed I’m not a specialist! Can I make a couple of comments – please take them as they are meant in a positive way! 🙂 </blockquote>

My review of your posts suggests you must be a very experienced non specialist! 🙂

<em>@swissa 305180 wrote:</em><blockquote>Elasitica was made to be an elastic site with the Masonry script – to make all the modules move around as the site size is changed and as you seem to have just the content box and no modules – is the best solution for you?</blockquote>

Wise advice and accepted. We were just playing with Elastica to see how it worked. Not really sure that we were sensible doing that.

<em>@swissa 305180 wrote:</em><blockquote>With regard to menu items coming up in an arbitary place – they always go into last place on the menu list. Last in, last place. Then you can assign or move them. True of any site I’ve built. </blockquote>

That is true too of my experience. But try the demo site – admin qu3nt1n – to see if you see the same problem that I had. It inserted itself in the first group above Contents Grid.

<em>@swissa 305180 wrote:</em><blockquote>I don’t know if you have changed the css of the menu items but I can make my menu items look the same by changing off the megamenu to css or dropline etc. Then they come out in the red colour. I wonder if this has something to do with it? </blockquote>

I have played with the css to create a specific layout. However, in Elastica, you do not have the choice to not use MegaMenu.

Do you have a template which you think is better suited to this layout? I would value a recommendation.

Thanks

Tony

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#441926

<em>@mountainman 305194 wrote:</em><blockquote>I have played with the css to create a specific layout. However, in Elastica, you do not have the choice to not use MegaMenu.
</blockquote>

D’oh! Du hast Recht!

Thank you for your kind words Tony. In reality I saw Joomla for the first time late last year – got my first template from JA in Nov – who knows, maybe, hopefully, as I get better, I can do this as a side line and earn some taschengeld.

Yeah I like it by the lake. Have Rigi and Pilatus right by plus I can see all the way down to Jungfraujoch and Eiger from my balcony so….. 😎

I personally reckon you could make Elastica really work for you. You’d just have to rethink the way to do it. Go up the mountain and stand around a load of snow boarders for a while, sniff whatever it is they are smoking and Bingo!! 🙂

Whilst I have nowhere near your experience I do have an Elastica site live and running & I run Methys with JoomShopping inserted too. I’ll switch my PM on and send you the link – don’t think that they are of a good enough standard to post them here!

Cheers

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#442057

Not a good day for standing around with anyone. But, nonetheless, I had a bit of a think about things and decided to use the QuickStart approach which I had always taken as being for wimps.

Install went OK and test menu additions worked as described.

So it must have been me.

As I replicate elements of the problem site I will, perhaps, learn what went wrong.

I was going to PM you but you had put the shutters up. I will use the contact form on that site, perhaps tomorrow.

Thanks for your help

Tony

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