Question Setup the menus, once and for all!!

Hi

I have never been able to create good menus for Kunena. It is really annoying and there are always some issues with the different approaches. What I want to achieve is that I only have ONE menu for my forum. I want it to be inside my "Main Menu" and not use the menu module position inside Kunena.

What I've tried so far:

1. First I tried to remove the "Kunena Menu" menu that is created when installing Kunena. Then I re-created the menu items in my own "Main Menu". It worked great but the module "Kunena Latest" can't create SEF URL's using this approach (please prove me wrong).
Crap...

2. Then I got the tip that I should keep the "Kunena Menu" menu that is created and just create an alias for the main menu item from "Kunena Menu" -> "Main Menu". This didn't change anything... Still "Kunena Latest" can't create any good SEF URL's (still can't find the correct Itemid).


3. Last resort.
I removed everything, re-created the "Kunena Menu" menu through the Kunena control panel and then I just aliased the menu items from "Main Menu" -> "Kunena Menu".
Now the SEF URL's are working in the "Kunena Latest" module, but the menu items in my "Main Menu" menu is not highlighted as active and so on.


So...! IS there any solution to create what I want?

Here is the latest thread I created about this issue, it was moved to "Archived" but I don't have the complete solution yet.
www.kunena.org/forum/181-kunena-latest-m...ly?limit=10&start=10


Anyone can help me?

PS. YES, I have read and tried what's in the docs.
docs.kunena.org/index.php/Troubleshooting_Kunena_Menu
docs.kunena.org/index.php/Customised_men...u_items_from_scratch

Thank you for your very detailed question. This topic actually generated a lot of discussion among members of the Kunena project team (for over an hour, in fact).

Part of the problem stems from the fact that there's a single installation procedure for K 1.7 (so that people don't have to hunt around for one procedure for J! 1.5 and and different one for a different version of Joomla). Another part of the problem is the inherent difficulties associated with implementing SEF URLs in Joomla (and this topic may help: How to implement Search Engine Optimisation - SEO - in Joomla ).

In addition to this topic, Linuus has also covered a much of this territory in SEF URLs in Kunena Latest Module not working properly . While it's difficult to argue about the structure of SEF URLs, or how how the Joomla router works (in order to find the correct target), the fact that there are differences in the structure between the Kunena component and another module (e.g. Kunena Latest) may be an issue. The issue is not that these differences cause your website to break; the issue is that differently-formed SEF URLs, pointing to the same thing, may come with a penalty in Google (or other search engines).

We believe this matter has been addressed (and resolved) in K 2.0.

We're still kicking this one around and I hope someone (other than me) might like to offer a few thoughts that will help better.

Hi!

Sorry for the late reply.

Just one thing to note:
"The issue is not that these differences cause your website to break;"

That is not completely true. If you assign modules to a specific menu item and then use the Kunena Latest Module that doesn't find the correct menu items, and thus create URLs like:
".../component/kunena/52-something?Itemid=0"

Then the modules that are assigned to the Forum menu item won't be displayed. Then the site is broken in my opinion.

Anyway, hopefully this will work in 2.0.


If I use the Alias approach (as I guess you do here at Kunena.org?), the forum menu item is not marked as current in my menu.

- How have you managed to get that working?

Cheers!
Linus

No ideas?