Possible bug on Menu configuration - Elxis Elxis 2009.0 Pandora rev2437

[timalsina]

Hello Elxis World! I just happened to stumble upon the Elxis community as I was making inquiry about IOS Reservations component. I would like to use IOS Reservations 3.x for a travel portal site once it gets released I picked Elxis due to multi-language/static cache/seo pro features build into the system.

While I was developing the portal site, I found a bug on the menu: I created a sections called Asia and Europe added categories: Nepal and Italy to them accordingly. After adding the articles on those categories, I wanted to display category specific articles while browsing them via frontpage as follows:

Destinations =>
     => Asia
                 =>  Nepal
                             =>  Overview.html (This is an Overview article link in Nepal category)
                             =>  Contact.html (This link gets created using Contact component)
                             =>   IGallery.html (This link gets created using IOS gallery component)
                             =>   etc. etc. (these are nepal specific pages and should only display as sub menus while visiting Nepal category page).
    Europe
                Italy
                             Overview.html
                             Contact.html (This link gets created using Contact component)
                            IGallery.html (This link gets created using IOS gallery component)
                             =>   etc. etc. (these are italy specific pages and should only display as sub menus while visiting Nepal category page).

I came up with creating country specific menus: Nepal Menu and Italy Menu, added above articles/component links and set the module to display only to current pages i.e. Nepal Menu for Nepal pages and Italy menu for Italy pages. Clicking on content items (in the above case - overview.html) works. But, when I click on menu links that are linked to Component, the menu simply disappears. I have attached the four images step by step to replicate this bug.

Step 1: Created country specific menus and added menu items and made the menu to display only in those items
Step 2: Clicked on Overview.html and overview item got displayed and worked
Step 3: Clicked on contact.html and the menu is gone!!!! (This is the bug)
Step 4: Browsed back to overview.html manually and menu is back.




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[datahell]

I guess it is not a bug. Elxis finds as first an other suitable menu item for the "contact" page and loads that one instead of the new one added by you. This is a matter of how SEO PRO works. As the Itemid variable does not exist in the SEO PRO URLs, elxis tries to detect it automatically and loads the first one it finds in the database. So the older ones will be loaded instead of the newer ones. Disable SEO PRO for a while to test that this issue happens cause of the SEO PRO. But it is not a SEO PRO bug or a disadvantage. You have to set up your menus correctly to make it work as you wish. Take a look at the system menu to see if pre-exist other links to your pages...

Solutions you may apply:
1. Remove or unpublish any prior existing menu items linking to the same page.
2. Enable the Itemid pre-load feature on your menus (see menu module parameters - uses AJAX to pre-load the Itemid of the clicked menu item).

[timalsina]

datahell,

Great. Following on your instruction helped me to sort our problem. Unpublishing com_contact/Contact menu item from another menu (without deleting) did the trick. For the IOS Gallery component, I  had to create a "Ghost/Dummy" menu with com_gallery component menu item published (unpublishing it didn't work) there first and create country specific gallery items "Link url" eg: domain.com/gallery/nepal/ (Where nepal is an IOS gallery category) in country specific menus. It works but active Link url items don't carry over id="active_menu".