I followed the instructions in the manual for search using and external link but the menu link is the wrong format. Please let me know how I can fix this. See attached image. Since the menu item is a link it wont allow me to add formatting. I think the issue is that there is no alias "text box" for me to enter an alias ....only that external link. How can I fix that?
image 1 is the error
image 2 is the alias box on another non external link
image three is supposed to be how the drop down menu looks. The search test link should be in that format.
My background is a website designer who can go into the code but I am not a coder.
You can't have alias or Itemid usage for External links. Joomla won't use alias and will strip Itemid when SEF is used from External menu links. Some 3rd party SEF extensions may be able to use them though as they've their own URL rewriting handling.
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So there is no way to correct the menu formatting issue. What about another way to bring in the search without having the menu formatting issues? Include file? And include search page? No better idea?
Only way is for it to be an Internal menu link instead of External. You can create an Internal menu link then edit it within _menus database table to have &listid or &searchmode appended to it. This would allow you to use Alias/Itemid for it.
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Thank you. Can you point me to documentation for that? It is easy peasy to make a link, and I can get into a database with phpmyadmin easy. But when I get there I'm stuck completely on what you just mentioned
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