Question SEF URLs in Kunena Latest Module not working properly

Sorry for a late reply here. I have had a lot to do lately. Back on the issue now.

So, I re-created the "Kunena Menu" using the function in the Kunena component. Then the SEF urls works fine in the module. The thing is that I don't want to use the tabs in the forum and the "Kunena Menu". I want the links directly in my "Main Menu".

- That is doable, right?

The question is how... I think I've tried everything in the docs but I can't get it to work!

I tried to clone the entire Kunena Menu into my main menu, but as soon as I remove the Kunena Menu the SEF url's are broken again.

Do I have to use the Kunena Menu and the tabs inside the component??

Regards
Linus

Linuus wrote: That is doable, right?

Sure is, but it I don't know what the Kunena Latest module has to do with the issue.

The issue requires an understanding of Joomla, nothing more than that. SEF URLs are generated by Joomla. Therefore you have to get Joomla working properly. There are two aspects involved in creating SEF URLs:

(1) Enabling Joomla's Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) features; and

(2) Setting up your Joomla menu correctly. In this regard, you need to understand the advice given in Customised menus . Creating menus in Joomla is one of the trickier things to understand.

You do not have to publish any of the Kunena menu tabs if you don't want to.

Thank you for the quick reply sozzled.

sozzled wrote:

Linuus wrote: That is doable, right?

Sure is, but it I don't know what the Kunena Latest module has to do with the issue.

Well, when not using the "Kunena Menu" the module Kunena Latest cannot create the URL's properly.

sozzled wrote: The issue requires an understanding of Joomla, nothing more than that. SEF URLs are generated by Joomla. Therefore you have to get Joomla working properly. There are two aspects involved in creating SEF URLs:

(1) Enabling Joomla's Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) features; and

(2) Setting up your Joomla menu correctly. In this regard, you need to understand the advice given in Customised menus . Creating menus in Joomla is one of the trickier things to understand.

You do not have to publish any of the Kunena menu tabs if you don't want to.

And yes, I know that Joomla generates the SEF URL's and that I have to set it up properly. But I have followed the guides and it doesn't work.
I mean, if I:
1. Use the function in Kunena to generate the "Kunena Menu" which seems to make the module work properly,
2. then copying the entire menu to my "Main Menu"
3. then removing the "Kunena Menu" - The URL's breaks.

Then it seems that Kunena _requires_ the "Kunena Menu". Is that correct?

If not, how can it not be properly setup when Kunena itself has created the menu items?


I have fiddled around a bit more and the solution seems to be to just use aliases in the Main Menu that points to the Kunena Menu. In the docs you can read this:

PS. If you want to keep your forum highlighted, you should use the same alias in both Kunena Menu and your main menu item.

This is NOT possible in Joomla and what you need to do is to leave the alias field empty.

So, hopefully I will manage to create the menu items correctly now. Maybe the docs are correct but I thought I either could use aliases OR just create the menu items directly in my Main Menu. It should be added that the "Kunena Menu" may NOT be removed as the component/modules depends on this to exists to be able to handle the URL's properly.


Anyway... Thank you for your help and hopefully I will be able to create everything correctly now!

Thanks!

I'm pleased that everything works. Whatever works is always a good solution. Once you get things working, then you can change things a little at a time. If something breaks after you've made a change then you know that what you've tried to do is not the right way to go about things.

Does Kunena require its Kunena menu module? No, it doesn't. But that may not necessarily mean that everything works, either.

I think we can park this topic in the archive for now. Other people reading this topic will see what they might need to do to achieve a resolution of problems that they've been having.

The solution lies in understanding how Joomla menus work. That's always been difficult.

sozzled wrote: Does Kunena require its Kunena menu module? No, it doesn't. But that may not necessarily mean that everything works, either.

This is NOT properly quoted. The question was if Kunena requires "Kunena Menu". WIth that I mean the menu that is created by default, called "Kunena Menu". NOT the module.

The problem is that if you remove the menu called "Kunena Menu" and re-create the menu items in your "Main Menu" the SEF URL's doesn't work anymore.

Anyway, I hope someone else can get some help from this thread as well

Keep the "Kunena Menu" menu (don't delete it) and have only one item in it of type Menu Item Alias called Forum (alias: forumalias) which points to the Forum item in your main menu. Don't publish any module which displays the Kunena Menu, but make sure all those menu items themselves are published.. That should remove the Kunena navigation tabs while allowing your Forum menu items to function properly.

This is how I do it here:
www.friendlyphotozone.com/forum