Sticky [Merged topic] How do I restore my Kunena menu?

First of all Hello,

I install Kunena on my Joomla v1.7 site, works perfectly. Can't click and see tabs (like Index,Recent Topics...)

Is that problem with site template, position forum, or something else

G'day, jeniss, and welcome to Kunena.

Please go to the FAQs tab on the menu near the top of this page. Please read Kunena menu issues

Thank you Sozzled, I found where is my problem. When i go in kunena control panel and click "Create menu" i get this message:

500 - An error has occurred.
Another menu item has the same alias in Root. Root is the top level parent

I try to found answers but all have diferent problems. Installation was completed without problems (i didn't get any message of installation problem). What i can do about it?

The reason that people get "another menu item has same alias in root" is because there is another menu item that has the alias "forum" in your menu ... somewhere. What put it there? I don't know. Unfortunately, J! 1.6 is very fussy with the menu and this is probably something the Kunena development team need to look into. Why do J! 1.6 database tables become corrupted? We don't know the answer to that question, either.

How do you fix it? One solution is to work your way through Joomla's Menu Manager and root out any menus that have the alias "forum" in them. The other solution lies in delving into the Joomla database tables (jos_extensions and jos_menus) but I'm not going into those details here.

Hi,

My first post here ever and it has to be a possible bug Tried finding the answer from the forum but could not find this topic. If it has been solved then I am sorry for using the bandwidth...

I have noticed one strange thing happening when you enter the same Kunena Forum topic either via Kunena Discuss or via Kunena Forum. So I have an article that can be commented (Kunena Discuss enabled for that category and linked to a Kunena Topic). If enter the Kunena Forum and the topic by selecting "Discuss this article in the forums..." I get to the right place in Kunena but there are no Kunena menus. On the other hand, if I go to Kunena Forum and browse to the same topic that way I do have the Kunena menus. The difference seems to be the links used (I have SEF on):

Kunena Discuss generated link: www.domain.com/en/component/kunena/8-category-name/2-topic

Kunena Forum link: www.domain.com/en/forum/8-category-name/2-topic

One uses the words "component/kunena" and the other simply "forum" in the path. Is this a bug or is this how things are supposed to work?

Getting around this puts you back to the age old Joomla problem: How to generate menus for links that are dynamically generated without a lot of unnecessary work...

I have the latest J!1.7, Kunena Forum 1.6.5 and the latest Kunena Discuss 1.6.4 so I should be pretty much up-to-date with everything relevant I guess.

Anyways, thank you for great work and component(s) the whole Kunena team!

G'day, kunenamies, and welcome to Kunena.

Let me see if I understand your question properly. You've followed the guide to creating a Kunena menu (as discussed in many sticky topics in the K 1.6 and K 1.7 Common Questions category or by referring to the "Kunena menu issues" on the FAQs tab above).

To be sure that I completely understand your question properly, and to be sure that this problem you're having is directly related to the Kunena Discuss plugin, are you claiming that you can see the Kunena menu when you access your forum from a menu item but the menu disappears when you go to the forum, somehow, as the result of making a comment on a Jooma artilce? Have I correctly summarised your question?

It sounds to me like you have a problem with the way that you've set up your Joomla menu. Your configuration report will assist in answering those questions.