Something strange started happening this evening. For list views, when I want to add a menu item to show the default layout for a view, the menu item will have &layout=modal added to it and will therefore not work. If I puot in the url in the address bar manually without the layout=modal, it works fine. The problem is how to get a menu item that actually points to it.

If I have several list layouts with different names, the ones that are not default are fine and the menu item url will include the correct &layout=. However, the default layout will not work and will be &view=modal. This seems to be true whether the default layout is actually called default or something else.

This started only today and it seems to be the same for the legacy versions as well.

Because I am working on that (Modal pickers in forms). I didn't expected this change.
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Which release version are you using ?

I tried 3.1.1, 3.15 and also the legacy version and I got the same result with all of them. I don't think I tried the beta version.

Do you have a FRONT LIST LAYOUT defined ?

Which PTL ?

I am not sure I understand your question. There is a front list layout defined, yes. The problem is when I try to add a menu item pointing to it. The url then includes &layout=modal which seems to cause the problem. This is only the case for the default layout. If I have more than one list layout defined, it will work for the one which is not the default as the url will include &layout=name where name is the name of the non-default layout. The problem is the same with all tables.

What do you mean by PTL?

PTL = Project / Table / Layout

I asked you this because the builder is searching for the first layout defined and if you don't have front list layout (LIST), then it is possible that the modal layout is used, but that's strange.
It was just a question for finding the bug.

I am also experiencing the same problem.

After spending four hours on this assuming that I was doing something wrong and that it was not the UI… The issue is the UI. What I discovered was that if you the star on the page layout it messes up the "default" function. It will automatically make the call to modal rather than to default. The way I worked this out was that I created additional layouts then deleted the layout that was starred. There is no way to toggle the star on and off. Once the star is selected your stuck. This only seems to be the case on the front and collection layouts. Clearly this is a bug. I was super appreciate if this can be fixed in the next 48 hours as I have several dozen components to create. I been using this tool for several years now and this is the first time I've seen something this bad appear in this otherwise hugely timesaving tool.

To work around this problem, you can just edit the #__menu table in your database. Once you have created the menu option, the url will be in the link field of the #__menu table. Just edit that field for the menu entry you jsut created and take out the layout=modal bit from the url. This is what I did to get around it.

Fixed.
It should be better now.

For info, the XML layout file 'modal.xml' was causing trouble.
It is useless and create this problem.
I think it started to appear after I modified a core function of Cook.
That's all in place now.

For users with expired account, manual fix is following :
-> delete all files named 'modal.xml'
They should all be located in