menus not displaying

Hi, me again. Sorry.

Not sure what I've done but I used to have a bunch of menus displaying down the left hand side of my forum. They've all just disappeared and I can't seem to get them back.

My site

Any help much appreciated

01 May 12

Oddly, with Menu Assignment set to All, it works but as soon as i change this status the menus no longer display (even if I have each item individually selected).

02 May 12

Hi daranp,

Thanks for the link.

I'm not sure what you exactly mean.
It is suppose to work that way.
The strange thing is that the menu's don't display when selected individually.

What I noticed is that your site is build up from divs with fixed widths and heights.
This is caused by your template which is generated by Artisteer.
Artisteer has an odd way to generate its files neede to build a website/template.
We often see these problems when Artisteer is used.

Ninjaboard usually blends in to the content part of your site and doesn't touch other positions.
As far as I could see, it looks like Ninjaboard is not rendering correct.
And instead of an expected whitespace on the left (where your menu's are) I noticed a whitespace on the right.

If Ninjaboard renders correct and if no menu's (modules) are active on the Ninjaboard pages, then Ninjaboard should take 100% of the content's width.
This is not he case.

In this situation it's best to give Ninjaboard some room/space (to breath) by disabling any side modules/menu's on the Ninjaboard pages.

If this is not helping, please follow this FAQ:

Template issue

And if that doesn't solve anything you can try to add the following to your template's style.css:

#ninjaboard, .contentLayout .content {

    padding: 10px;

    width: 96%;

}

The above will be only applied on the Ninjaboard pages and will not affect your other pages.

I'm not sure if this is what you are after at, just some suggestions to let Ninjaboard render in a more descent way.

I hope this helps.
Let us know how it goes.

Kind regards,
John

02 May 12

Hi John,

I have now switched off all the modules/menus from the forum area. Unfortunately, it made no difference. Also, as they consist of login, quickpanel, user profile and search, I could really do with them being present.

I have also tried setting both module style and Moduleclass sfx to none (and other variations in-between) but, again, no difference.

Amending the CSS certainly renders the forum to a nice looking size but, alas, it renders everything else to 96% too. Thus forcing the rest of the site's appearance to cock up (although, to be fair, I wasn't sure where the code needed to go so just placed it at the end of the file...?)

At this stage, with the modified CSS, I also tried turning the left hand modules back on to see what would happen. But nothing did. The Forum was still at 96% and the menus were not displaying.

The thing is, it was all working fine. Exactly the way I wanted. All I did was to change the link from an existing “staging” menu and make it “live” on the masthead menu.

So I have spent the last couple of days playing around with this because I was hoping to find a joomla based forum that meant I would no longer have to muck about “reintegrating” every time I updated my web site vs my existing PhpBB forum... Was getting a little frustrated when, as one last ditch effort, as I like the ninjaboard, I just decided to delete all my side modules and rebuild them...

Guess what? It worked!

I can only assume I had one or more settings wrong previously and it was causing some kind of conflict but, TBH, I have no idea what. I'm just glad it's all working again.

Really appreciate the help. Thanks so much.

Results can be found here ParaSpace/forum

04 May 12

Hi daranp,

Thanks for your detailed feedback.

I'm glad you have found the issue. It does makes sense to me.
Like I was suspecting, it could be possible that Artisteer handles its template rendering differently from other template manufacturers.

It's indeed possible that rebuilding your menu's fixed the problem.
We have had several issues with Artisteer regarding Ninjaboard but most of the the time it was a matter of modifying the CSS.

Anyway, it's good to see where this issue came from and worth to keep in mind.
So, good catch!

Your forum looks great and finally the way it should be :)

You're welcome anytime.
If you need further help in the future, please drop by.

Kind regards,
John