SCLogin/JFBConnect Login Menu Items?

Hi There,

Forgive me for getting a little confused at present but before I integrated your SCLogin and JFBConnect extensions, I had my normal joomla site and template menu items, located in the mainmenu [2].

However, I'm now confused as I not only have the above as expected I ALSO now have an extra user menu through your component extension, with the drop down greyed button to the right currently of the logout one in the below screenshot.

It really doesn't fit my template or the fluidity of my site to have in effect two user menu's showing and in all honesty, I'd like to be able to show the traditional stock joomla user menu once people are logged in to the site, via the 'ISKH Account' menu link section, is this possible and if so how do I go about implemented this variation please?

You can also see in this additional screenshot when the sclogin/jfbconnect own drop down is selected, it just looks horrible on my site in effect overlaying the original mainmenu.

I look forward to hearing from you and I'm hoping I can somehow get the populated user menu once users are logged in, in to traditional joomla mainmenu items instead or I may well not be able to use sclogin or jfbconnect at all, which I don't want to contemplate in all honesty.

Thanks in advance,
Regards.

alzander wrote: I'm a little confused about exactly what you want to accomplish, but I'll give some notes on how you can do what you're looking for:
* You don't have to use the SCLogin module at all. You can add the social login buttons to any area of your site simply by adding the {JFBCLogin} tag. There are multiple configuration parameters you can use to set the image to use or social network providers to show in that tag.
* For the "Logout" view you show, you could choose to only show the SCLogin module to guests. Then, when they are logged in, the Logout and User menu will not show
* In the SCLogin module, you can disable the User Menu and "Connect Account" buttons so that all that is shown is a logout button.

It's really your choice on how you want things to display. Hopefully, that gives you some ideas, but if you have any questions on how to do something, please describe exactly how you'd like things to work and we'll try to help you implement it.

Thanks,
Alex

Hi Alex,

Thankyou for the reply, much appreciated indeed.

I think what I was trying to explain but obviously failed this time around, is as follows;

1) I would like to use the native / stock Joomla 'mainmenu' for all my public level pages but for all pages that are 'registered' access level or higher for e.g. for the SCLogin/JFBConnect user menu to show these only. This way, it makes the 'user menu' once a user is logged in to their account, have common sense access to all the pertinent 'member actions or services' - is this possible please and how would I achieve this? I ask, as currently the user menu is simply re-creating every single joomla user mainmenu item that is on my website anyway and just doesn't flow right for me. You can see this in the 2nd image attached to my original post and with the red #1 next to it.

2) Regarding the logout side of things as far as I'm concerned, it's the real estate that it's taking up when logged in and I'd rather just keep the logged in user menu if anything. Is it possible to put the logout green button that it is currently, in to a menu item with how SCoast have it, within your own sites 'My Account' section in the top right side?

3) You also have the 'Connect to' social network accounts that users can link their account to, in a drop down on your own site - This is what I am wanting to achieve whereby I utilise the user menu drop down but as mentioned above, I only want registered access content in here or what I put in there, not every menu item that it currently is placing in there. Then I want the same with the connect to feature of your component, where as at present it is just in my templates 'fixedside' position

I look forward to hearing from you and I hope I've being able to articulate my desire for how I'd like to fully implement your extensions and maximise their feature set, whilst meeting the design or flow requirements of my site.

P.S. I think there maybe an issue with your forums

tag, as when I wanted to insert my points above as a bullet list, it completely messed up the posts text inside those tags. Just letting you know in case you need to look in to it.

Regards,

I've found a few settings which in part helps me look to achieve the above points in my last message.

However, even though I've created a brand new user menu, set it to Registered and moved some of the previous mainmenu items, to the newly created myaccount menu - then I've set this new user menu in SCLogin logout settings tab in the backend.

I do get the items within a menu but it's seeing double or triple for logged in users;

It's showing in two areas of my fixedside, when these items should only be showing within the sclogin dropdown user menu;

So near but so far

Regards,

Good Evening Alex,

Firstly thank you for the very information replies and processes I could try and follow, of which I can now show you that I think the majority have indeed worked (that I got them right, they would've worked from you guys anyway haha)

This is how my logged in user account menu is now looking;

You will note that I still have TWO 'Logouts' showing, I want to totally get rid of (1) showing in the screenshot and only have (2) one that shows in the screenshot and is exactly as you guys have yours. I cannot see any other logout in your own header area, apart from the one logout in your logged in user menu... that's what I'm so close to re-creating but cannot seem to fathom how to get shut of the first logout, that you see in the screenshot?

Incidentally the wording 'Connect To:' doesn't show up in my logged in user menu as you can see in the above first screenshot, as I presume it's white... any chance you could share where I would make this change, to a different colour, so it does show.

Lastly, when I hover over the 'My Account Menu' button, it opens the menu directly below and over the mainmenu, how would I get it to render the myaccountmenu to the right of the button itself, thus not obscuring the main menu at the sametime?

As always, I look forward to your thoughts and input which is very much appreciated indeed.

Regards,

alzander wrote:

I want to totally get rid of (1) showing in the screenshot and only have (2) one that shows in the screenshot and is exactly as you guys have yours.

In the "Logout View Settings" area of the SCLogin module, there's a "Show Logout" option.. set that to Hide
I actually found that option purely by chance not long after I'd posted haha, thanks for confirming this though - just in case I hadn't found it.

Incidentally the wording 'Connect To:' doesn't show up in my logged in user menu as you can see in the above first screenshot, as I presume it's white... any chance you could share where I would make this change, to a different colour, so it does show.

Try this:

.sclogin li.connect {
    color: black;
}

As it happens, after I'd posted the last reply above - I setup my files and site to work from a template / theme override for SCLogin. Then I took both the stock sclogin css files content, merged them in to the one new html/themes/ file and then added the above css and VOILA, thank you so much.

Lastly, when I hover over the 'My Account Menu' button, it opens the menu directly below and over the mainmenu, how would I get it to render the myaccountmenu to the right of the button itself, thus not obscuring the main menu at the sametime?

Try:

.sclogin ul.dropdown-menu {
margin-left: 50px;
}

Again, due to setting up the theme override css file, I was able to take what you have kindly said to try and took it further until I got what feels right for my site, so again thank you heaps.

Let us know how that goes!
Alex

Finally, I've just posted this on RocketTheme my theme provider but feel I should place it here too as I have a feeling they will say in the main, it's the 3rd party module issue not the template (who knows right now)

Hi There,

It's been a steep learning curve getting the hang of this whole Gantry5 and new way of RT theme's doing things, but digging it entirely.

However, whilst I've managed to resolve all my outstanding SCLogin/JFBConnect module style issues with their developer, I have one problem I would like some advice on from RT people, please;

There's various 'template themes', such as coming soon, default, home and error etc but I'm having an issue getting the wider used CSS and other settings to take shape within my error pages;

I'm leaving you two URL's the first is the way I've been working to get my fixedside menu and the modules etc within and is just fine...

The second URL is how the same renders in the 'error' theme settings / layout when an erroneous URL is entered. I've attempted to look through all settings, pages, layouts in one's I'm happy with, like default or home but it's making no difference.

(this is fine and just how I want the login and register module etc)

(a slightly erroneous URL then makes the same login and register module not take on the above first URL's CSS / Styling)

I must be missing something, to get the exact same CSS for this particular module to work on the error pages too grrrr.

I'm hoping you can take a look and help point me to what I'm clearly missing please.

I look forward to hearing from you in due course.

Regards,

May I wish you a very happy festive period, should you celebrate it (I don't know if you do or don't but still nice to wish it to people in case)

It's nothing major Alex, with their new Gantry5 templates, they have a preset 'error' outline design built in to their G5 templates and when I was fixing the above things on my own site, with SCLogin etc; the SCLogin button css doesn't seem to transfer to the RocketTheme 'error outline' page(s) the same.

The guy who is moderating that post of mine DanG said the following as an update "I just tried with a RokSprocket module and its CSS files aren't picked up in the Error Outline either. Am investigating." So I will see what comes of this and if they propose anything their end, to make the 'error outline' page(s) css output exactly as it should be to look like all the correctly working non error pages.

Regards,