Have used Joomla a fair bit, but have ending up taking over a site previously looked after by someone else. It had been recently updated to 2.5.6 from 1.6 and is sort of ok, but there are a few issues I'm finding particularly with the Admin Menus.
the extensions manager is missing its sub menu of 'update' 'discover' etc - does anyone have any idea to remedy this?!
a couple of components don't exist in the directory structure (admin or components) but are listed in the in the components menu in admin, so if I try to reinstall them it won't add the menu option...(get error saying menu item already exists). Does anyone know how to clear the menu options from admin so I can reinstall the components properly?
its a bit of a mess but I haven't the time to start from scratch on this site as its already been highly customised!
Any help much appreciated - as I say I'd be familiar enough with joomla but setting up from scratch without all the mess!
Many thanks
Clare.
For question # 2 you need to use phpmyadmin, or a similar tool and remove the offending components from the xxxx_extensions table. xxxx is a random 3,4, or 5 character string which was created during installation.
Also check the xxxx_menu table for menu items from these components.
Usually admin menu items appear in the "menu" menus.
WARNING! be extremely careful when hand editing your SQL tables. You can completely destroy your site, if you make a mistake. NEVER do a "drop" nor an "empty" with the tool.
As to question #1, I have not seen this behavior. Have you tried an update? or reloading Joomla over your current site? (If you do this, be sure to backup your site! We use Akeeba backup to do this)
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I have been working for a few days now making a simple web page to be a basic cv/bio. I started by making my headers for the page and some simple animations when switching window sizes. After playing with adding some different colors in, I noticed that an asset I added, wasn't transparent(as I had intended it to be).
That said, I have tried to delete the item from the assets Library to no avail. I've tried removing all relevant keyframes, as well as trying to delete it from the Master Rules. The program will not allow me to delete the item, except from the Library, which does not affect the item on the page whatsoever.
I may well be missing something completely obvious and shall feel a fool when this is answered. Thank you for your help in advance!
To delete a layer, click on it in the timeline so that it's highlighted and then press the Delete key on your keyboard.
If the element is an asset imported by you, for example a picture, you must select it at the library collapsible menu and click the trash. If you can't find this menu, clic on Menu > Window > Library.
On Responsive window, click Edit base document. You can now delete it.
I've searched all over for a solution and have not been able to get them to work.
My company's product used to have the Repair option when selecting the product in the Programs and Features dialog. You could also right click on the product and select Repair there as well. Just before I inherited the installer projects, this Repair option disappeared. I looked around to see if anything was disabling this option and couldn't find anything.
In InstallShield DisableRepair is set to No. There also is no registry key set in the Uninstall section for the product for NoRepair when the product is installed. By default, I believe I should be seeing the Repair option and don't understand why it's not there. I've tried messing with ARPNOREPAIR in custom actions, all to no avail. I even created a registry key for NoRepair with both 0 and 1 for DWORD values to see if it actually would work and it did not. I'd like to say that there is some code somewhere that is disabling it, but I've checked everywhere and even talked to the previous installer coworker and he doesn't know of anything removing that option.
Does anyone have information on this?
After lots of digging around and testing I have found out some interesting things and a solution to my issue. It turns out that there was a C# custom action that was creating a separate registry entry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall. Also, ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT was being set to 1 in InstallShield which was disabling the original entry from showing in Programs and Features, while the new entry was set to show. Apparently NoModify and NoRemove work with the new entry, but not NoRepair(no idea why this is). My solution was to go back to the original entry and modify the keys that I was adding in the custom action.
As evident from title, I entered a bug in MantisBT but mistaken choose wrong project. I can go back and edit most of the parameters of bug but it doesn't allow me to change the project. I looked in configuration and there seems to be no option for that there as well. Is there a way I fix the bug information by changing the project to the correct value?
You can move issues between projects if your system configuration and access levels allow it (look for the Move button in the View Issue Details page)
You can also move multiple issues by doing the following:
Go to View Issues page.
Filter on the issues you want to move (optional)
Tick the issues from the list that you want to move or select all.
Go to the bottom of the list and select "Move" then click Go.
Select project to move to.
Note that since MantisBT uses a universal id across all projects, moving an issue doesn't break links to it, since URL to the issue will remain the same.
After much online research and getting close to what I am looking for by hacking it together (ie. modifying templates and other files, exactly what every expert out there appears to advise against in terms of SharePoint customization) I have decided to go ahead and post my issue here to see if anybody has ever had any experience with this.
In essence, I start off with a plain My Sites host. I would like to keep the My Profile and My Content pages, and add a bunch of new content of top on that. For us, simplicity is of utmost importance and so when I created a new Web Part Page and noticed that it added an additional ribbon under the navigation menu, I decided that it had to go. This is what it looks like out of the box:
With ribbon
Notice that at this point I have already made a few modifications, such as removing the My Site link that by default appears all the way to the left of the other options. This sadly was accomplished in a very brute-force way.
Now, here is the ribbon-free navigation bar, which is just what I want to be able to design without making system changes that I will regret in the future (and that may be easily overwritten by a CU or hotfix)
Without ribbon
So I guess I should make this clear, I don't want the navigation gone, just customized (ie. no My Site string to the left of my options, no Site Actions drop-down for read-only users) and the Browse/Page ribbon that gets added by default everytime you create a new page, well that one just needs to be gone completely, as shown in the second screenshot.
I have read all about hiding ribbons (which just hides the whole thing, including navigation), customizing ribbons (no success in accomplishing this type of basic navigation after trying them out) and simply don't know what to do anymore.
Maybe I am just taking the wrong approach by modifying something instead of just creating it from scratch, at the end of the day it is nothing but a static navigation bar common to all the pages with the special current user drop-down all the way to the right, then if a user has write permissions, she would also get the Site Actions drop-down under Home, that's it.
Hopefully an answer to this question will help others as well who are looking to simplify their SharePoint My Sites host a bit, as out of the box the number of web components that users are presented with might be just a little too overwhelming for your everyday employee, at least in the industry that we operate in.
Anyway, thank you kindly in advance, I look forward to your replies. Do let me know if there is something that is not entirely clear from my explanation :)
If you take away user's Create Personal Site permission (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262500.aspx) in your User Profile, the "My Site" link will go away.
Im using Umbraco 4 and have built a menu using a macro. I have one issue though when I click on a menu item the entire macro disappears immediately, some time before the rest of the page disappears so the new page can render. The new page renders the menu at the same time as the rest of the page though.
Any ideas on why this could be happening?
cheers
Jon
I've taken a look at the ultimate navigation package and I suspect the issue you are having is a client side scripting issue rather than an Umbraco one.
I note you have commented on the blog asking for support from the package writers. THey are probably your best bet here I.m afraid.
However as an alternative it's proably worth looking at this umbraco navigation package:
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/cogworks---flexible-navigation
as this does not use javascript and it may solve your issue or at least give you some pointers on constructing your own navigation.
T