Question kunena_menu position not auto complete from main menu

Unfortunately Joomla 2.5 doesn't allow separate menus for the same entry point, like /forum. It's just not possible because of technical limitations of Joomla! 2.5 (it used to work in J!1.5 -- but it was also very buggy and caused a lot of other issues).

What you can do, is to use either menu item aliases or external URLs in your top menu.

Or if you don't want to display menu inside Kunena at all, just edit components/com_kunena/template/[YOURTEMPLATE]/html/display.php and comment out or remove line:

is it possible to change it so the displays another menu instead of the main menu?

So say i create a menu called 'Forum'. In this menu I create
Index
Latest Posts
My Posts
No Replies


and so this is shown at the top of the kunena forum in the tabs

And then i create a menu called Forum in the Main Menu, and under that I have each category as a menu item (i.e. 50 children to the parent Forum menu).

and then can i not just create the menu items in the Forum menu as alias to the main menu?

could this work?

Matias wrote: What you can do, is to use either menu item aliases or external URLs in your top menu.

This doesn't work, as I want to create a menu item for each of my 50 categories. So even if I create menu item aliases for Latest Posts, My Posts etc, the 50 category menu items still show in the kunena top menu position.

I need to separate the two

(the reason why i need a menu item for each category is so that the urls are correct for each category. By that i mean, if i have a section called Tennis and under that I have Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open and then under each of these categories I have years 2000, 2001, 2002 etc, if i go to the category 2002 I see the url www.site.com/forum/2002 when it really should be showing www.site.com/forum/tennis/US-open/2002 )

so it would seem that a solution/fix would need to be done to the kunena menu automatically displaying the contents of the Main Menu forum menu for this to work correctly.

TKtemp wrote: Hi, the problem is that Kunena Menu by default is not joomla module published in kunena_menu position.

You should make THIS CHANGE and after that create kunena menu module and publish in this position. After that you should be able to do what you want.

this has worked for me :woohoo: :woohoo:
this has meant that i can separate the main menu from the kunena menu

Matias, should this not be default behaviour of kunena?

okay, i have tested it, and it nearly works 100% how I want. However when you click on a topic within a category it loses some of the path in the url.

To help you understand, this is my menu setup (also my kunena categories setup)

Forum
-Sailing Regions
--California
---California Region
---California Freshwater
---California Going Shooting Noticeboard
--Florida
---Florida Region
---Florida Freshwater
---Florida Going Shooting Noticeboard

If i am in the California Region category i see this url:
www.website.com/forum/sailing-regions/ca...ia/california-region

If i then click on a topic in this category I see this url:
www.website.com/forum/california-region/...5-port-heeding-waves

you can see that it has stripped out the 'sailing-region/california' part of the url.

The correct url should be:
www.website.com/forum/sailing-region/cal...5-port-heeding-waves

How do i fix this?