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[alberts Friend albertsJoin date: June 2006Posts: 31Downloads:0Uploads:1]

#116756

I’ve noticed that with some menu items that are of type Link->url, the selected colored tab gets confused.
I’m sorry, but my site isn’t live yet, so I can’t just let you see for yourself. So I’ll have to explain.

For instance, I have a menu item that has the url ‘http://engineering.calumet.purdue.edu/component/option,com_comprofiler/task,usersList/Itemid,1/’
with the title of ‘Faculty and Staff”. When I click on that menu tab, it shows the proper page; however, the first tab ‘Home’ gets highlighted. This also happens with another menu item with the url ‘http://engineering.calumet.purdue.edu/component/option,com_eventlist/Itemid,2/func,details/did,1/’ and the title of ‘Other’; however, clicking on this one highlights the second menu tab which is titled ‘News’.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this something that needs to be fixed with the template?

Thanks

[ha le-viet Developer ha le-vietJoin date: April 2006Posts: 415Downloads:0Uploads:26 Thanked: 5 times in 1 posts]

#209539

Hi Albert,

All you need to do is re-organize your menu system. Go to Administration Panel and select parent item for each item. This will solve your problem.

[douglas Friend douglasJoin date: March 2006Posts: 42Downloads:0Uploads:1]

#209540

Hello,

I was trying to find out why my ja_spica menu item went weird. I found this thread and thought it might fix the problem. I added a menu item: Brochures and when I was checking the menu items I noticed that each menu item worked as expected but the Brochures menu item had a slight glitch in that it did not draw or update the Tab in the menu color as expected.

The Tab stayed gray but the line under it drew fine. Any suggestions?

http://acglobalsystems.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6&Itemid=27

Select each menu item and you will see what I mean about the redraw issue with Brochures menu Tab that stays gray and doesn’t draw as expected.

Any suggestions to fix this would be appreciated.

Doug

[alberts Friend albertsJoin date: June 2006Posts: 31Downloads:0Uploads:1]

#209545

Doug, you seem to be having a different problem than I do.

Here’s a picture of what mine does:
http://emssupport.calumet.purdue.edu/download/badmenu.jpg

Here’s a picture of how the menuitem is setup:
http://emssupport.calumet.purdue.edu/download/menu.jpg

Ha Le-Viet, I’m not sure what you mean by select parent item. As you can see from the picture, I have ‘top’ selected as the ‘parent item’. Is there something else I should do?

BTW, the ‘&’ in the menu name isn’t causing the problem. I tried renaming the menuitem to just ‘faculty’ and I have the same problem.

[alberts Friend albertsJoin date: June 2006Posts: 31Downloads:0Uploads:1]

#209554

My site is not quite live yet; however, it is publicly visible. You can see it, and the problem I am having, at http://engineering.calumet.purdue.edu

Notice that when you click on the “faculty & staff” menu item, the focused tab becomes “Home”, instead of “faculty & staff” as it should.

[alberts Friend albertsJoin date: June 2006Posts: 31Downloads:0Uploads:1]

#209560

Is there somewhere I can actually get support for this problem? This is really frustrating that the template still isn’t working properly and it appears to defintely be a template problem.

[nathanbohn Friend nathanbohnJoin date: March 2006Posts: 230Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanked: 9 times in 1 posts]

#209573

I know it sounds stupid, but try deleting the tab and recreating it. Sometimes its just wierd

[alberts Friend albertsJoin date: June 2006Posts: 31Downloads:0Uploads:1]

#209581

Already tried that. This is a consistent problem with url menu item types.

Bump!!!!!!!

[itguy Friend itguyJoin date: November 2005Posts: 140Downloads:0Uploads:38 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#209603

Just for grins try this…

Enable SEO/SEF urls.

To enable SEF URLs you need to:

Be running on Apache.
Make sure the mod_rewrite apache module is installed (it is a default on most installs).
Rename htaccess.txt to .htaccess in the Joomla root directory (might already be named .htaccess).
Edit the .htaccess file and remove the coment char “#” from the following lines:

Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/dev/component/option,com) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(content/|component/) index.php

In my situation I also had to add the following line to the .htaccess file to stop a Forbiden Access error:

# To allow execution of cgi scripts in these directory uncomment next two lines
AddHandler cgi-script .bat .exe .pl .cgi
Options +ExecCGI

[alberts Friend albertsJoin date: June 2006Posts: 31Downloads:0Uploads:1]

#209604

Thanks, but already done. I’m using OpenSef. I’ve also tried disabling it, but it doesn’t make any difference either way.

[itguy Friend itguyJoin date: November 2005Posts: 140Downloads:0Uploads:38 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#209605

Oops different problem than what I was thinking. Not sure about this one. Sorry.

[alberts Friend albertsJoin date: June 2006Posts: 31Downloads:0Uploads:1]

#209609

It would be great if I can get a response from a dev on this issue. It’s been over a week, and I still haven’t received any support on this issue from a dev.

[alberts Friend albertsJoin date: June 2006Posts: 31Downloads:0Uploads:1]

#209619

I’ve come to the conclusion that basic support by the JoomlArt administrators to ensure that the templates work as they were intended is non-existent. This issue has gone unanswered by the JoomlArt admins for 2 weeks now. I have sent a pm to Hung Dinh about this issue and pointed him to this thread and received no reply what so ever. I can see that he seems to have the time to reply to questions in the ‘pre-sales’ forum; however, issues that appear to be caused by a problem with the original design of the template are of no concern. Since this appears to be a problem with the template itself, and the JoomlArt forum community hasn’t found a solution for the problem, I was hoping to get some type of response/support from an administrator. The problem appears to be that this template doesn’t work with any menu items of type ‘Link -> url’ that are relative url’s to other pages or components in the Joomla site. Hence, my problem with simply using a menu item to link to a Community Builder list, because it is a relative url of the form ‘index.php?…’.

Before someone starts to flame me for this post, let me clarify a couple of things.

I completely understand that the ‘terms of use’ state that all templates are provided ‘as is’. I also understand that the administrators probably don’t have the time and are not obligated to respond to any posts in the forums and/or pm’s. I guess my hope was that ‘as is’ meant that the template actually works with the basic built-in functionalities that Joomla has.

I am sorry for the tone of this post, but I have held the launch of my site for 2 weeks now in the hope that this issue would be resolved. Unfortunately, I’m still waiting.

I assumed that the administrators are also the template developer/s. If this isn’t the case, I apologize.

EDIT: Although I stand by my comments about basic support for the templates (ie. ensuring that issues that are caused by the template are addressed), I want to let anyone reading this thread know that my problem has been resolved by someone from the Joomlart team. The problem ended up being something stupid that I did when creating the menu links and not a problem with the template itself. The template is one of the best templates I have ever seen for Joomla.

[BigHug Friend BigHugJoin date: September 2012Posts: 60Downloads:17Uploads:277 Thanked: 11 times in 1 posts]

#209626

I agree totally, I have had questions about another template, and have received nothing despite various posts on the forums.

[alberts Friend albertsJoin date: June 2006Posts: 31Downloads:0Uploads:1]

#209670

I see Hung Dinh replied to other threads, so … bump.

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