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

Kevin Topic Author Visitor	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: 986	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. Coding is now a piece of cake
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Re: Menu link to frontend (new item) 11 Oct 2011 20:06 #198

urbanspaceman Offline New Member Posts: 10 Thank you received: 0	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 :

required="true"

TO :

required="false"

Coding is now a piece of cake

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Re: Menu link to frontend (new item) 14 Oct 2011 20:37 #248

Kevin Topic Author Visitor	Thanks for that I...
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