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    Posted by John Morris United States

    Hello Tiki gurus!
    I hope you can help me, I am trying to edit the main menu module at the top left of our site at The Patriot Woodwiki
    I have another site I want to link in the menu, I would like the link title or menu title to be "Forums", this link would direct the user to The Patriot Woodworker
    Any help is greatly appreciated! I have scoured the control panel and settings for editing our main menu, I have scoured our forums here, and have come up dry. Thanks folks!

    Tiki14

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    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee Japan

    Hi,

    It's not obvious (or apparently well documented 😉 ) but I believe you need to clone the main (application) menu, and then edit and assign the clone instead of the default menu. There's a "clone" link on the "actions" dropdown of the default application menu.

    -- Gary

    Posted by John Morris United States
    Thanks Gary, I was playing with clone feature briefly, but did not think outside of the box like that! I will give it a try, it sounds like that will work. I thought it slightly odd that I could not edit the main menu directly but hey, every awesome software has it's mystery's.

    Posted by John Morris United States

    Worked like a charm Gary. Thanks again, I now have my "Forums" link in my main menu, a very easy process.  The Patriot Woodwiki

    I would reccommend this as a top tip for new Tiki sites and owners, since the main menu is what we love to customize right of the get go upon installation. Thanks again Gary.


    Posted by Mike Finko Ukraine

    Hi Gary,

    I had a similar question about menus involving the Application menu items -
    I need to add a link to the Calendar in a custom menu and nothing seems to work.

    Tried:

    • choosing the 'feature_calendar' in 'Sections' (when adding a new menu item), but it does not doe anything.
    • searching in the URL for 'Calendar' but no options appear
    • adding the same (feature_calendar' to the 'URL' part, both with and without the double parenthesis so: CalendarDocOld, did not do anything (though if I remember correctly, it added the link but than the page 'was not found')
    • found in the Application Menu it is also called tiki-calendar.php, so tried putting that in the URL, did not work
    • read over all the Docs pages, no guidance on how to add an Application Menu item
    • also tried the 'Show Quick URL's (upper right side of pop-up when 'Adding a new menu item', many links to useful Tiki Features like Home, Wiki, Articles, and File Galleries, but no quick link to the Calendar


    Typically, I have always just added the full URL in the URL section but this is not the correct way to do this.

    What did I miss?

    Thanks,

    Mike