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Read the Knowledge base article titled "menus and modules and Itemids". It also applies to J1.5. One downside of using Joomla content within jReviews is that you need to created a core section or category menu so that each article inherits it's menu id (Itemid). Then when you assign a module that you want to maintain even at the article level you need to assign it to the core section/category menus as well.

Okay, I have it figured out that everything works correctly if I have in main menu that links to a core category list.   But the category list is very ugly compared to the joomla review link (like the thumbnail view.)    I really would like my main menu links to take me to the joomla review thumbnail list. 

Is there a trick to using only joomla reviews menus and keeping things assigned to the "core section/category menus" without showing the users the core category menus?

(website is still the same.  All jreview stuff is under Printing Resources)

I think this Knowledgebase takes care of most of my issue with modules not showing up, but i don't understand the very last part:


And i think this relates to the last part of my issue.  I now have my modules showing up correctly for all sections and category listings, since I have added a hidden menu which includes "BlogSection" lists for each Joomla section.  But what does it mean when you say create menus for com_content lists?  I think I am missing this part which may fix my issue...



Thanks as always for your support...

The problem i am having now is my modules not showing up when looking at an actual content/review item in jReviews.  The modules are there for section and category lists as they should be, but once you click on a jReviews content/review item, the (left) modules are gone.  For example, if you go to http://hotspotvibe.com/stl, click on Restaurants, the left menu modules are there (login form, category menu, adsense/html module, etc).  Then when you click on a review item for details, none of the left modules remain.  This is probably just something I am missing, any ideas?  Is there a way to assign these left modules to content items within a specific section or category?

You need to make sure you assign your modules to both the hidden menus and the non-hidden ones.

To troubleshoot this you need to track the Itemids. Choose a content. What is the Itemid of it's section blog menu? What is the Itemid of the content link? Do you have any menus in the trash, if so purge all of them.

wow... ok - figured it out.  I feel so silly, somethin so simple.

I am using the SectionNav module for my category menu's under each section, and did not have all my modules assigned to that menu list.  That took care of it.  Thanks for bearing with me on that, i definately learned a bit!