Toolbar Explained - Revision history

Admin: /* JomSocial 4 */

2018-06-20T03:10:04Z

‎JomSocial 4

Admin at 03:08, 20 June 2018

2018-06-20T03:08:23Z

Sinisakrisan: /* Common Mistakes */

2016-08-04T05:22:23Z

‎Common Mistakes

Sinisakrisan: /* Common Mistakes */

2014-06-17T04:16:16Z

‎Common Mistakes

Sinisakrisan: /* Conclusion */

2013-06-28T21:10:05Z

‎Conclusion

Sinisakrisan: /* Working Principle */

2013-06-28T21:02:12Z

‎Working Principle

Sinisakrisan: /* Things to Know */

2013-06-28T20:55:49Z

‎Things to Know

Sinisakrisan: /* See Also */

2013-06-28T14:55:00Z

‎See Also

Sinisakrisan: /* See Also */

2013-06-28T14:49:49Z

‎See Also

Sinisakrisan: /* Going Complex - Adding More Entry Pages */

2013-06-28T14:43:52Z

‎Going Complex - Adding More Entry Pages

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 ====JomSocial 4====
-:::[[File:Jomsocial4.5-toolbar.jpeg]]
+:::[[File:Jomsocial4-newtoolbar.jpeg]]
 Except redesign to fit into new JomSocial layout, Toolbar in series 4 didn't suffer any changes in functionality like in toolbar 3. It is the same old toolbar JomSocial 2 users used to, but wrapped into different style powered by [http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/ Twitter Bootstrap]<br/>
 Because it is built with bootstrap, JomSocial toolbar is also responsive
 :::[[File:Toolbar3.0responsive.png]]
 ==What toolbar is used for?==

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 Because it is built with bootstrap, JomSocial toolbar is also responsive
 :::[[File:Toolbar3.0responsive.png]]
 ==What toolbar is used for?==

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 ==Common Mistakes==
-* '''Setting the toolbar item  as home page''' - JomSocial Toolbar is intended to serve as an '''internal navigation''' for JomSocial component. Setting the site home page within toolbar will always lead to unexpected behaviors to your navigation system
+* '''Setting the toolbar item as home page''' - JomSocial Toolbar is intended to serve as an '''internal navigation''' for JomSocial component. Setting the site home page within toolbar will always lead to unexpected behaviors to your navigation system
 * '''Trying to assign modules to toolbar items''' - It will never work, as Joomla modules are binded to itemid's. As explained above, JomSocial will always take the ID's of entry pages.
-* '''Trying to restrict items with Joomla ACL''' - Again, toolbar is not a classic  Joomla Menu. We simply used Joomla menu manager to allow users to easily add new items to the toolbar which is '''internal component navigation''''. As such it does not respect Joomla ACL as JomSocial won't support it before version 3.5 either
+* '''Trying to restrict items with Joomla ACL''' - Again, toolbar is not a classic Joomla Menu. We simply used Joomla menu manager to allow users to easily add new items to the toolbar which is '''internal component navigation''''. As such it does not respect Joomla ACL as JomSocial can't support it yet.
-* '''Trying to use JomSocial Toolbar as main site navigation''' - This is wrong by design. Toolbar is only visible to registered users by default and having it as main site navigation is bad choice.
+* '''Trying to use JomSocial Toolbar as main site navigation''' - This is wrong by design. Toolbar is only visible to registered users by default and having it as main site navigation is a bad choice. Not to mention an ID's mess you'll inevitably have to live with.
 * '''Creating duplicate entry pages all over the site navigation''' - For example, if you have two menus outside JomSocial Toolbar menu that leads to say, all videos page, JomSocial will always take one with lower ID as entry page

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 * '''Setting the toolbar item  as home page''' - JomSocial Toolbar is intended to serve as an '''internal navigation''' for JomSocial component. Setting the site home page within toolbar will always lead to unexpected behaviors to your navigation system
 * '''Trying to assign modules to toolbar items''' - It will never work, as Joomla modules are binded to itemid's. As explained above, JomSocial will always take the ID's of entry pages.
-* '''Trying to restrict items with Joomla ACL''' - Again, toolbar is not a classic  Joomla Menu. We simply used Joomla menu manager to allow users to easily add new items to the toolbar which is '''internal component navigation''''. As such it does not respect Joomla ACL as JomSocial won't support it before version 3.2 either
+* '''Trying to restrict items with Joomla ACL''' - Again, toolbar is not a classic  Joomla Menu. We simply used Joomla menu manager to allow users to easily add new items to the toolbar which is '''internal component navigation''''. As such it does not respect Joomla ACL as JomSocial won't support it before version 3.5 either
 * '''Trying to use JomSocial Toolbar as main site navigation''' - This is wrong by design. Toolbar is only visible to registered users by default and having it as main site navigation is bad choice.
 * '''Creating duplicate entry pages all over the site navigation''' - For example, if you have two menus outside JomSocial Toolbar menu that leads to say, all videos page, JomSocial will always take one with lower ID as entry page

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 Through this article, we have learned that JomSocial Toolbar is not a standard Joomla Menu, but rather '''internal navigation system''' for JomSocial component. We simply used the Joomla menu manager to allow users to add new items to toolbar much easier.<br/>
 When component uses Joomla Menu Manager to add internal navigation, it is virtually impossible to achieve what one would expect from standard Joomla menu.<br/>
-Everything described here also applies to other components as well. For example, Kunena Forume also use Joomla Menu manager to add internal navigation and it works on exactly same basis.<br/>
+Everything described here also applies to other components as well. For example, Kunena Forum also use Joomla Menu manager to add internal navigation and it works on exactly same basis.<br/>
 This article also taught how important is to disable SEF when debugging navigation and module assignment issues.

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 To see this, open the JomSocial link that was automaticaly created during installation and edit it
 :::[[File:Entrypageid.png]]
-As you can see on the image above, this menu item ID which will serve as entry page have id of '''491'''<br/>
+As you can see on the image above, this menu item ID which will serve as entry page have id of '''491''' but on your installation it will most likely be different value. Remember it<br/>
 If we now go to any page in JomSocial component, we will notice that no matter what item in toolbar we click, this itemid will always be taken
 :::[[File:491.png]]

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 * '''Modules can NOT be assigned to toolbar items''' - Same as with ACL. You can't assign modules to items in JomSocial Toolbar, but you can assign them to the entry page
 * '''Only one level of dropdowns are allowed in toolbar''' - Toolbar is displayed through JomSocial template file. It is not a standard Joomla menu and it is not designed to support more then 1 level dropdown menu.
 ==Common Mistakes==

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	==See Also==		==See Also==
	* [[Translate Toolbar]]		* [[Translate Toolbar]]
		+	* [[Common SEF Issues]]

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 Similarly you can add unlimited entry pages for every view in JomSocial which will allow you to assign different modules to different menus.<br/>
 To some extend, it will even work for restricting areas with Joomla ACL  but drawback of this is that if for example, you want to disable JomSocial Events for certain user group, that group will still see the Events tab in toolbar navigation, though it wont be able to access it.
 ==See Also==
 * [[Translate Toolbar]]