Merged Multiple forums on one Joomla

Thanks for the quick reply. In the intervening time I was taking a look at the code and it appears to beyond my skills.

However, it apparently has been done. The GE-transportation forum referenced at this sticky post does change the tabs at top to correspond to the section they are in (they use SEO URLs so I can't see what the catid's and itemid's are). If Matias helped GE on setting that up, perhaps he could chime in. The Wiki reference he provides is confusing and I am not sure how to follow that.

Unpublishing the "index" submenu from the "Kunena Menu" does do the trick, although the users will have to use the back button to get back if they go reading the rules or looking at the latest posts or whatever.

To truly make the section standalone, I would also have to take out the breadcrumb-like link right above hte section name. Only the one that is under the "Path-element-first" class div. Will be tricky as well.

I previously had some experience hacking the old phpBB2 files and thought it would similar to doing that. There, I was able to find the structure more readily in the .tmpl files that php subsequently populated. But with joomla/kunena, the html is worked in much more tightly with the php and it makes it harder for an amateur like me to hack what is presented. Not complaining, just commenting!

Another half-solution:

I went into "Kunena Menu" and made a second copy of the "Index" submenu. Of the now two submenus, I named one "ABC Index" and the other "XYZ Index", where ABC and XYZ are the names of the two types of forums I want to have separately.

Using the menu editor, the links for these two menu items are locked on catid=0. But that is what they made phpmyadmin for I went into the database and changed these menus to catid=24 and catid=25 (corresponding to the id's of the sections - it appears these "sections" are just "categories" but I understand the terminology parallel to Joomla) and then at least I have two appropriate index tabs at the top.

I'll take a look at the code and see if I can get the tabs conditionally showing up, but I probably will just get lost again. But like I said, this is a half-solution at least.

I am so tantalizingly close, but still no joy.

I tried some more to follow the "customised menu" guidance in the wiki. Probably didn't follow directly as all I did was create a new "Kunena Menu", calling it "Kunena-2" Both of these had two sets of "index" submenus, one for each of the two forum sections. Note, both of these were those kunena-type menus whose location is set as "kunena_menu"

By selecting which menu items these showed up in, I could get one or the other to show up in the tabs. Here are some screen shots. The "ABC" and "XYZ" I mentioned above are actually "Forum" and "Conditions".

In the one (main/general) forum, I set it to use "Kunena Menu":

http://trailmap.us/kunena/kunena-1.bmp

And I turned on the menu name so I saw which one I had when I clicked the main forum menu button:

http://trailmap.us/kunena/kunena-2.bmp

Then I did the opposite for the condititions forum:

http://trailmap.us/kunena/kunena-3.bmp
http://trailmap.us/kunena/kunena-4.bmp

Notice the different tab is highlighted and the different name is put on top.

I figured I was done. All I figured I had to do was unpublish the "forum index" submenu from one Kunena menu and the "Conditions index" from the other Kunena menu.

But no such luck. If I ubplbish the "conditions" menu from the first Kunena menu, things work just the way I want (just getting the "forum index" tab) But when I click on the conditions forum link, I get this:

http://trailmap.us/kunena/kunena-5.bmp

Which I can't figure out at all!

I think you need to use menu aliases for duplicate menu items so the non-alias item is highlighted how you want it. Also, there's a setting in the menu module for Active Parent Highlighting. I'm not sure how your menus are set up, but this will add the active class to the parent element (it appears the GE site is using this to have the parent item be active when the child element is clicked).

Severdia:

It's been a busy week with getting the new website launched. It went live last night, but so far without the forums, so now it is time to get back to this. I appreciate your quick responses so feel bad it's been a week now.

But frankly, I don't think I understand your suggestion. The only menu aliases I am aware of are the ones in the second row of each menu item edit page. But I don't think that is what you mean?

I tried the active parent highlighting radiobuttons for both kunenamenus but this didn't change any behavior. Even tried "fully active highlighting".

As for how my menus are set up, I just have two category-list kunena menu items in the side menu (happens not to be mainmenu, but I don't think that matters). One goes to the general forum, the other to the conditions forum. I don't have a Kunena "entry point" menu item as is installed by default (I hid it by making it a submenu item on a menu that is limited to just the top level menuitems).

It helps to see your setup. Since some time has passed and things have changed, can you explain what you specifically want to achieve?