Sticky K 2.0 general menu issues

In a way, glad I'm not alone! Away for a week today so will pick up again 14th July. In the meantime, I am aware that soembody with greater knowledge than me is investigating. Will report back in due course.

jenfar: are you by any chance also using the ja_purity_ii template? If not we can eliminate it from our enquiries.

no I'm using a template from www.joomladesigns.co.uk/ . With the default menu created by Kunena I have no problems with the Kunena tabs appearing. But when I create a custom menu and select Kunena the tabs are missing once the user ends up on the Kunena page.

I should also add signing in or out of the forum has no effect on the above equation.

jenfar: your issue seems similar but not quite the same. I am using the default Kunena menu and the issue happens.

It's been over a week since one of the volunteers indicated that they were writing a new edition of the Kunena Menu article for the Kunena Wiki, and they would need 16 hours to complete it. (For those having trouble locating the article entitled "The Kunena Menu," it may be that you are looking under "M" for "menu," rather than "T" for "the" in the Wiki article index. While a new page has been started, I could identify no new information as of one-half hour ago.

What I do note is that we were told a new revision of the software needed to be installed. Whatever problems Kunena 2.01 might have addressed, the menu issue with the missing tabs is not one of them.

This clearly is not an isolated issue, nor is it a 3rd party template issue. I am using the Blue Eagle template that accompanies the extension download, and I cannot get the tabs to appear using that basic install with no 3rd party templates or 3rd party Kunena extensions.

Could some one please just explain how to get the missing tabs to appear as they ought after one has installed Kunena 2.01 without error or incident. My configuration settings report follows.

One other issue: Can we please NOT refer to Kunena 2.x as K2.x? It may seem a minor point, but for those of us using the CCK called K2 it adds a totally unnecessary level of confusion. And, yes, I will make that issue its own topic.

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I have been very busy for the past three months (and I have enough work to keep me busy for the next 6 months). When I find a spare two days I will continue to work, as my time and energy permits, to update the documentation Wiki.

If someone wants me to drop everything else and finish the job that's OK with me but something has to "give". You should understand something very important:

There is no company behind Kunena; everyone who contributes to Kunena is a hobbyist, enthusiast or professional web developer who gives their time freely to this project - volunteers every one of us. Our hope is to make Kunena the most reliable, scalable, durable and robust forum component for Joomla that we can make it and to give people the best solution to meeting their forum needs. The forum is a self-help community-driven resource for users to help one another. Our job, in moderating the forum, is not necessarily to answer every question but, rather, to point people in the right direction where they can find the answers.

We are doing our best. I cannot give you an absolute definite timeframe when I will finish the job I started. On the other hand, if people would like to write to me with information that they think would help the documentation, they can write to us (our e-mail addresses are on the team page). Please be patient. Thank you.

I agree with you about using the abbreviation K 2.x instead of "Kunena version 2.x" but, just like everyone else, I think we should be allowed a little latitude instead of being pedantic about the unfortunate abbreviation. When I want to refer to "Kunena version 2.x" I write K 2.x. When I want to refer to the Joomla extension with a similar name, I write K2. The difference is in the italics.

To restore your standard Kunena menu, use the Forum Tools » Menu Trash facility. Simple and it takes one mouse-click. After that, publish the menu item created for you in your top-level/main menu and you're all done. There is a topic in the K 2.0 General Questions category that discusses it. Search the forum and you will usually find the answers you are looking for. I hope that helps.