Does JA Good for Joomla 3 support the full MegaMenu capabilities?

thassoc

I'm trying to clean up my legacy J3 site, which is largely - but not exclusively - based on JA Good. There are non-JA products I am trying to remove prior to upgrade to J5/J6 and transition to JA Nexora. I want to replace a vertical AccordeonMenuKC Light (free) with a vertical MegaMenu - however, the full list of options shown/referenced in documentation of JA MegaMenu is not available. I've checked my Joomla install and there is no JA T3 Framework system plugin (plg_system_jat3). How can I go about getting full features of JA MegaMenu on my current J3 system?

saguaros

thassoc Hello

May I know which template are you using: JA Good or JA Nexora?

With JA Good, you can see the megamenu button in template:

For JA Nexora, you will see it in Navigation settings in template: https://www.joomlart.com/images/docs/ja-nexora/megamenu-settings.png

thassoc

I'm currently using JA Good for J3 and am trying to get my JA Good-based site cleaned up to prepare for move to J5 and a different template (Nexora). My current site has plugins and modules from non-JA vendors and I am trying to get rid of those. I have 2 stacked vertical menus built with AccordeonMenuCK Free (see Resources and Pesonal Accountability in right nav at: https://www.toddherman.com/personal-accountability ) and want to figure out how to do equivalent in MegaMenu which, per documentation (at: https://www.joomlart.com/documentation/wiki-ja-t3v2-joomla-2-5/navigation#Setting_up_columns ), will do stacked vertical menus. The documentation shows a lot of options (see snip), yet pressing the MegaMenu button on my site shows no options (see snip).

What am I missing or doing wrong?

saguaros

thassoc I have 2 stacked vertical menus built with AccordeonMenuCK Free (see Resources and Pesonal Accountability in right nav at: https://www.toddherman.com/personal-accountability )

In case that you want to show this vertical menu with JA Nexora, you can simply assign it to the sidebar position.

thassoc documentation (at: https://www.joomlart.com/documentation/wiki-ja-t3v2-joomla-2-5/navigation#Setting_up_columns )

This is for old T3v2 framework, not for the T3 version of JA Good template. Please ignore it.

If you want to load MenuCK module in the megamenu of template, you can setup the megamenu in template and load the module there:
https://www.joomlart.com/documentation/t4-framework/navigation-settings#megamenu_jadoc

thassoc

I'm trying to create a MegaMenu in my CURRENT JA Good-based Joomla 3 site, and I'm ONLY seeing the options in the snip I posted 2 days ago (THA Main Menu in top left - reattached here). It seems a number of JoomlArt items on my site are out of date (see snip from JA Extension Manager).

QUESTIONS:
1 - Should I go ahead and update the extensions shown in the snip?
2 - Am I missing any extensions required to create a true, full-featured MegaMenu in my CURRENT JA Good-based J3 site? If so, what are they?
3 - What else should I check to help you with troubleshooting this issue?

saguaros

thassoc Of course you can continue configuring the megamenu with JA Good template but I'm not entirely sure of the issue here, could you share more details of how you want to achieve?

And share the super admin account so I can check directly for you

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saguaros

thassoc Hi

Thank you for clarifying your goal.

Unfortunately, this isn't possible with the current JA Good template.

The MegaMenu in JA Good is designed to work only with the main navigation menu. It doesn't support rendering menu modules in sidebar positions such as the current Resources and Personal Accountability modules.

If replacing AccordionMenuCK is a requirement, you would need to consider an alternative menu module for that sidebar positions.

Regards

thassoc

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Manit

Hi thassoc

I checked the menu in sidebar, and I think you can completely use Joomla menu module that is always native with any Joomla version when you upgrade your site.

Best regards,