Hi,
Joomla assigns classes to things like search boxes, so you need to be cunning in Freeway and match them up in your template. My Form Elements CSS Action has just been updated so that it can be pressed into service for this.
4 -Sketch a text field onto the paste board. Apply the Action to it
5 - In the Inspector Palette, you need to match the name of the item with the class that Joomla publishes. For the search box, this is likely to be:
inputboxmysearch
However - check the source of the page after Joomla has done its deeds to be sure.
6 - Note that the Action will currently publish the width and height of the form element to match the size you have drawn it on the page. This has been a quick & dirty fix to the problem - I’ll spend more time trying to make it a little more Joomla Friendly later on.
Hopefully this will help with most form item related problems.
On 18 Oct 2011, 2:02 pm, Auguste wrote:
Hello everybody ! I have one question. Can I change the fields of search form in Joomla with Freeway ? The text is ok but I would change the text field of the box itself (background color, size, area border, corner …)
I tried this action Form Element CSS action, but that does not work on Joomla search form …
Hello and thank you. I get to style the text field but I can not link it to the research module of Joomla. I must not use “Joomla Module Action”? In the administration of Joomla I need to specify the position of the search module “user1”? How to tell him a position if I can not use “Joomla Module action” palette?
Hi,
what you are doing with the search field is to force Freeway to create the CSS without building the actual search box. No need for any Joomla Action to be applied in this case.
It’s a long establish Freeway trick - if you want something, like CSS or JavaSCript, created by an Action to be published, but not the Action itself, you sketch the item out on the pasteboard.
I have a big question about the relation between horizontal menu and vertical menu in Joomla 1.5.23
I have one horizontal menu “mainmenu” and an item “solutions” (level 0 and 1).
I use the same horizontal “mainmenu” in a new module to display a vertical submenu were there are sub items (level 1 and 2). When I click on one of its sub items in my submenu my horizontal"mainmenu" is no longer selected (highlighted). The breadcrumbs is ok it keeps the entire hierarchy (home> solutions> submenu item1). What I want is just the horizontal menu (hold) is selected when using the submenu.
I have read in the pdf document of your extension “Horizontal menus can not have sub-menus” Is that why it does not work?
Joomla should put an “active” class into the menu item for the current page. With the way you are working, then no, the mainmenu item won’t be seen as current any more, and so won’t get any highlighting. I don’t think there is a way to trip that behaviour in Joomla - though you may want to look up the concept of “hidden menus” (an interesting way to control the appearances of pages/content etc.) for Joomla 1.5.
I’m trying to make a template for Joomla 2.5.6.
Unable to install the template. I have this message “JInstaller :: Install: File already exists”.
Is this related to that? http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p=2425883
I have no idea what the error message pertains to, I’m afraid. It may be that you are trying to install the template over an existing one.
What I do is install a template using Joomla’s method once. After that, I upload/publish from Freeway directly into the template folder on the Joomla Server. Once Joomla has been made aware of the existence of a template (usually by installing the first time), that’s it.
I solved the problem by uploading the template’s folder with Captain FTP like I did with Joomla! 1.5 , but, after that, using the function “discover” in the extension manager, and installing the template in this panel too.
And it works fine! Even with my old template, after re-publishing it with the Joomla Action!
Hello Paul,
I try to put 3 “featured articles” on three columns on my Home page with “category blog” and the main “Blog Layout Options” in Joomla 2.5. I use the style of Freeway and my main menu in Joomla.
Leading Articles 0
Intro Articles 3
Columns 3
Links 3
But they are not in column just in line :-(. Do you think it would be great to add CSS (position.css) to make it work?
Do you know when ?
I am getting
JInstaller: :Install: File does not exist /home/grassro2/public_html/ecepresents.net/tmp/install_5124da4e1c778/joomlatest/Media/pngbehavior.htc
you have:
the main freeway file
Site folder
joomlatest (inside the site folder)
which do you zip and upload to the template folder in joomla - I am going through cyberduck.
when I did the unziped joomlatest folder and do discover under the extention manager - I am getting cant be found…
