By Mel on Thursday, 01 June 2017
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Hi,

I am trying to display a joomla menu item in the easysocial sidebar menu. I have tried these (taken from your module positions documentation but nothing displays:

es-events-item-sidebar-top
es-events-item-sidebar-bottom

If I select a regular template position i.e. right then it displays fine.

Are the above module positions correct?

Kind regards

Mel
Hi Mel,
You can check the available positions in a page by turning on the preview module position setting in template options then appending ?tp=1 in the url(http://take.ms/PkORK).
If this does not work for you, can you provide us the site along with its access so we can check this for you?
Also, you can also let us know which module and position you want to display so we can try it out for you as well. Thanks.
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Friday, 02 June 2017 10:33
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Just to add that I was also having issues getting modules to appear so I tried your suggestion and find that it seems the documentation is all incorrect (perhaps not been updated to match this current release?)
https://stackideas.com/docs/easysocial/administrators/module-positions/event-page-position

Please can this be updated as even using the ?tp=1 option is not ideal as some positions when I look I think it's showing truncated text (plus of course we also pay for the product and expect the documentation to actually be correct!)
Jay
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Friday, 02 March 2018 19:47
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Thanks for the input on this Itamar. The reason that we suggest using ?tp=1 in the url is because EasySocial is an extremely huge extension and if I recall correctly, it has over 300 different module positions combined. It's going to be very tedious to maintain all module positions on the documentation.

Having said that, we'll definitely update the docs soon.
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Saturday, 03 March 2018 02:29
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Er, you mean to tell me someone creates those positions and defines a name but no where do they write it down?! Please let me that's not how you work!

I do get the feeling you could do with taking on someone just to work on documentation, at least in the short term to get it all up to date.
Jay
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Saturday, 03 March 2018 19:01
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What I am trying to tell you is that using the tp=1 in the URL parameter, would give you the best result as it is always up to date. I will get our team members to update the documentation page for module positions.
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Sunday, 04 March 2018 17:52
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The issue I found with that is it looks like on my display at least, some of the names get truncated so you are not sure what they actually say (see screen shot)
Jay
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Tuesday, 06 March 2018 00:08
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Hey Itamar,

I get what you mean here. Unfortunately that is how that Joomla feature works. You can try highlighting the element, copy and paste in a text editor to see the full text.

For ES module positions, we will update it in the docs as mentioned.
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Tuesday, 06 March 2018 15:53
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