Side Menu Update - Options Not Appearing & Scrolling Issue
By David on Tuesday, 14 April 2020
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Hi,

I recently updated to the new Easyblog and the side menu is a definite improvement. Looks great on your EasyBlog Update video but doesn't work so well on my site at present. Note - I have temporarily disabled all html overrides on the test site so these shouldn't affect how things work.

1. Currently, the menu only offers 4 options both for admins and regular users, it seems to be missing all the other options and the Manage button doesn't work. See attached image.

2. The menu slide doesn't work well with my existing template (an old Joomlaart template) - I added some css to hide the header when the menu slides in but this doesn't look very smooth when I slide out. (the menu and search rows don't disappear with the other rows in the menu bar). Is there an easy way to fix?
I added some CSS to hide the header when the menu slides in: .mm-wrapper_opening #t3-header {display: none}
Note also - there are a bunch of JS errors when I look in Google Console, think these may be causing the issue.

3. Also, is there an easy way to change the search bar to search Easyblog pages? This would be very helpful. As it stands, it seems to just search functions in the menu.

Thanks for your help with this.
1. Currently, the menu only offers 4 options both for admins and regular users, it seems to be missing all the other options and the Manage button doesn't work. See attached image.

I can reproduce this issue in my locally, I will log into issue tracker.

2. The menu slide doesn't work well with my existing template (an old Joomlaart template) - I added some css to hide the header when the menu slides in but this doesn't look very smooth when I slide out. (the menu and search rows don't disappear with the other rows in the menu bar). Is there an easy way to fix?
I added some CSS to hide the header when the menu slides in: .mm-wrapper_opening #t3-header {display: none}
Note also - there are a bunch of JS errors when I look in Google Console, think these may be causing the issue.

Hm, is it can show us some screenshot which part not show nicely so we can better have a check?

I did tested on your test site, it seems show correctly for me https://monosnap.com/file/qTxrPJA3mm9Tj9jz1nr81mykioLLpj .

3. Also, is there an easy way to change the search bar to search Easyblog pages? This would be very helpful. As it stands, it seems to just search functions in the menu.

Currently that is not possible to change to search Easyblog blog post from the mobile toolbar, the purpose of this search is actually allow user to easier to search the existing toolbar menu.

By default the search blog post function should be appear on the toolbar, you can check my screenshot here : https://monosnap.com/file/4QnMHFOiFA3FBQ5UaNaRXWVBdKLFst
Arlex Wong
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Tuesday, 14 April 2020 13:54
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1. Thanks Arlex, just updated Easyblog and the other options now appear.

2. Just uploaded a video of the menu slide on my iphone (see attached gif). As you can see, on slide out, the menu title and search button don’t fade in line with the other items, so it looks a bit clunky.

3. Just tried out the search function and it’s great, one suggestion could be to show items that are in child menus on search. Eg. if someone types “sound” into search, the social menu displays, not the sound item. When I click social, sound is now the only option, but it may be more intuitive if this was displayed without having to search through the parent menu as it’s not obvious where the child item is, some users may not think to search via the parent menu.
David
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Monday, 20 April 2020 12:01
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Thanks for your input David, I will log into issue tracker and see if we can find a way to improve this.
Arlex Wong
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Monday, 20 April 2020 18:53
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Thanks for your help Arlex. There may not be issues with the SI template. Probably a lot of EB users use legacy Joomlart templates. Would consider upgrading but also a lot of work to get everything working. Cheers
David
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Monday, 20 April 2020 21:06
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You're most welcome,
Arlex Wong
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Tuesday, 21 April 2020 10:49
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Hi,

Can I ask please, how could I switch off the slide-out menu (eb-canvas), so that the original dialog-modal style menu is present.
I have looked both for a setting in the admin backend and in the docs, but I do not find it.

thanks, Phil.
Phil Horswill
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Saturday, 25 April 2020 21:38
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Hey Phil,

Unfortunately that is not possible to turn off this slide-out menu on mobile.

This is the new toolbar mobile design for Easyblog 5.4.
Arlex Wong
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Sunday, 26 April 2020 11:09
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Hi Arlex,

I have easysocial, easydiscuss, and easyblog integrated at one site.

The mobile menus need to be harmonised across the products. This is the reason I would like to have the possibility to have the old dialog-modal style retained in my easyblog setup (since the slide-out menu update has not been made to easysocial or easydiscuss).

Could you please tell me / send me the relevant files so that I can have consistent menu approach across the integrated products ?

thanks, Phil.
Phil Horswill
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Sunday, 26 April 2020 22:11
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Hello Phil,

With the latest update in EasyBlog, we have already added to social (EasySocial) and discussion (EasyDiscuss) into the toolbar for mobile. Is there anything that is still missing?

By the way, in the previous version (5.3.x), the popup dialog does not have any linkage to EasySocial and EasyDiscuss either. Am I missing anything here?
Mark
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Sunday, 26 April 2020 22:26
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Hi Mark,

Because I have the three products (EB, ES, ED) integrated at one site, it is important to me that users have a consistent experience when using the menu in the toolbar(s). This is working OK for PC view.

On mobile the three toolbar menus behave as follows: ES renders dialog-modal, ED renders dialog-modal, but EB renders slide-out menu. It's confusing for users, and gives poor impression.

I would like the user to experience the same style of menu from each integrated product.
Either all dialog-modal or all slide-out.

I agree slide-out looks nice and is 'modern', but a consistent approach across the integrated products is the priority importance.

Perhaps it can already be configured like this, but I miss it (?)

If it can't be configured in settings, it would be great to have the file(s) necessary to have EB render dialog-modal again. In this way, my users will have a consistent experience across the three integrated products.

thanks, Phil.
Phil Horswill
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Monday, 27 April 2020 19:19
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Hello Phil,

I see, I get what you mean here but we are going to be moving all of our extensions to this new menu structure as this is the way moving forward. Unfortunately it's not going to be possible to add the dialogs back unless you revert back to the previous version.
Mark
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Monday, 27 April 2020 23:52
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Hi Mark,

ok, sounds good that all the products will move to the new menu.

but in the meantime, I prefer to step back to the EB version with the dialog-modal. Which version is that ? and do I choose the relevant installer from a list, or is it more complicated than that ?

thanks for your help, Phil.
Phil Horswill
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Tuesday, 28 April 2020 00:21
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Hello Phil,

To update to the previous version, you'll need to switch back to the latest 5.3.x but there are quite a number of functionality that you would lose out from this.

Do you have the installer from 5.3.x ? If you don't can you create a new ticket and provide us with the e-mail address which we can send the installer via Google Driver over.
Mark
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Tuesday, 28 April 2020 11:41
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Hi,
no sorry I don't have it - I will open a ticket.
thanks
Phil Horswill
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Friday, 01 May 2020 03:58
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Hi,
no sorry I don't have it - I will open a ticket.
thanks

Alright, we will reply you on your original thread.
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 01 May 2020 11:03
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