[SOLVED] Linking a group in GroupJive to a menu item

Hi

Is there a way to force GroupJive groups to appear under specific menu items? Say I have groups under 2 categories, Apples and Pears, and I have set up menu items in 2 different menus which are GroupJive category menu items, one for Apple groups and one for Pear groups. All this is fine using the menu system to navigate to the groups, but when groups appear in users activity streams, for example, or in their profile tabs, clicking on the Pear category group opens them under the Apple menu item. Have I missed something?

Thanks

It's working as intended. It does not look for specific menu items by group or category ids. Your first top level GJ menu item should typically be to all groups or all categories so outside links will use that for its itemid. We'll be improving this further in future CB releases as we need to make improvements to our Itemid parsing function. Right now to support that it could potentially result in up to 3 queries just for 1 menu items Itemid resulting in hundreds of queries being performed for Itemid parsing, which just isn't acceptable in regards to performance. I think I've a way of implementing this in a future release and noted it in the below ticket.

forge.joomlapolis.com/issues/6392

Hi

Okay, thanks. Obviously the most important thing is to maintain good performance and response times, so that's appreciated.

It does leave me with quite a big problem on my site strategy however, so I'm wondering when this might be resolved? I can see it is scheduled for the next release, CB 2.2, so I'm guessing it would be some months away?

I may be able to work around this with another menu item, for the time being. I'm wondering how I ensure that it is the top level GJ menu item? I've just added an all category item to my main menu but the links are still defaulting to the other original menu.

It does leave me with quite a big problem on my site strategy however, so I'm wondering when this might be resolved?

No idea as my focus at this time is CB Activity 4.0.0 followed by GJ 4.0.0.

I can see it is scheduled for the next release, CB 2.2, so I'm guessing it would be some months away?

It'll be in a nightly before CB 2.2, but I still don't know when that'll be.

I may be able to work around this with another menu item, for the time being. I'm wondering how I ensure that it is the top level GJ menu item? I've just added an all category item to my main menu but the links are still defaulting to the other original menu.

It'll grab the first menu item it finds so you first menu item should be to all groups or all categories page for GJ. This should cause all links outside of that menu item to use it as its Itemid. I found making a menu item to all categories with an alias of "community" looked really good as you'd have the below URLs.

domain/community/001-category/001-group

It'll grab the first menu item it finds so you first menu item should be to all groups or all categories page for GJ. This should cause all links outside of that menu item to use it as its Itemid. I found making a menu item to all categories with an alias of "community" looked really good as you'd have the below URLs.

I've just spent a bit of time trying to get this to work, and finally succeeded. I'm sure you knew this but it turns out the critical thing is the menu item ID number. Even when I followed the steps you outlined, the group links were still defaulting to my original single category menu item, until I deleted it and made a new, identical one, but with a higher ID number than the overall "All categories" menu item ID. It seems that the linking was finding the lowest, or in other words, the oldest, item ID number.

Yup, that's what I meant by first menu item. I apologize for not being clear.