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TOPIC: [SOLVED] Menu link to frontend (new item)

[SOLVED] Menu link to frontend (new item) 10 Oct 2011 20:15 #187

Kevin	I can create a new menu item in joomla to point to an item in the frontend but it asks me to select the item. Is there a way to point it straight to a new item entry page. That said will a guest be able to save it. I am trying to set up a fishing competition entry form on the frontend that anyone can fill in.
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Re: Menu link to frontend (new item) 11 Oct 2011 13:36 #191

admin Offline Administrator Chef Posts: 3711 Thank you received: 987 Karma: 140	If you don't select any item for this menu link, it should load an empty layout page. If this layout is a form type, you get an empty form ready to add data. Use the ACL system of your component to allow the item creation and item saving. That's all.
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Re: Menu link to frontend (new item) 11 Oct 2011 20:06 #198

urbanspaceman Offline New Member Posts: 10 Karma: 2	same problem in my local installation, the item is always mandatory don't save is none is selected
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Re: Menu link to frontend (new item) 14 Oct 2011 18:19 #244

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You are right, the item field is required, but It souldn't.

Corrected since 1.3.3

Regenerate your project, or if you want to correct this in your component :

FRONT/com_mycomponent/views/myview/tmpl/mylayout.xml

CODE:

<!-- Add fields to the request variables for the layout. -->
	<fields name="request">
		<fieldset name="request"
			addfieldpath="/administrator/components/com_mycomponent/models/fields">

			<field name="cid" type="modal_itemitem"
				label="MYCOMPONENT_MENU_SELECT_ITEM"
				required="true"
				description="MYCOMPONENT_MENU_SELECT_THE_ITEM_TO_LINK_ON_THIS_MENU"
			/>
		</fieldset>
	</fields>

CHANGE :