Currently megamenu assumes (correctly for the limited set of access levels supported) that each access level has access to all menus of the access level below. The code does not work out correctly which menus are accessible by the specific access level selected - and this is presumably why we have this restriction.

So I need to add further code to megamenu.php to correctly check the menu's access levels and provide that in the ajax response. More news later.

Ok - I have fixed this completely - Megamenus can now be used with any view / access level.

As stated above, it might be better to use the user group as the dropdown, and display the menu items that would be seen by a user in that usergroup, however that is left for future enhancement by someone else.

Cool thanks for this :)

I note that 4 weeks later and this fix has still not been merged - nor has anyone from joomlart even commented on it.

Having put the effort into identifying the issue, tracking down the cause and creating a fix, it would be nice if someone from joomlart had the courtesy at least to review and comment on it.

S

Hi Sophist-UK,

Thank for you looking at this issue.
Though, your fix is just open another case of error that we have try to restrict, and it does not really fix the problem.

We will wait for another complete solutions for Megamenu.

It would be helpful if, rather than simply closing this, you could instead explain what error still remains so I can see if I can fix it.

Any update on this?

Because of the difficulties I faced in getting the issues I found fixed, I have switched to a different framework / template. So, sorry, but I am not working on fixing this.

Do you remember the issues roughly? It shouldn't be so difficult to add all access levels instead of the 3 levels that originate from Joomla 1.5.

Just out of curiosity, to which framework/template you switched?

Any update from Joomlart?

I provided a partial update, but the response from the t3 folks was very dismissive - effectively saying that it was "impossible to support the full J2 user levels and why would anyone want any more than the standard J1.5 ones anyway".

This is causing me problems too, I have had to refine the member ACL to few more detailed membership groups, and due to this I cant use the megamenu function in my site, which is a shame. Since I can only set settings for the default Joomla groups, and the newly created ones don’t show in options.

Where this would be helpful, well when I want to show splash screen per access levels, ie. Which for me are memberships.

So please allow this to be fixed.

From: Sophist [mailto:notifications@github.com]
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Subject: Re: [t3] Remove Megamenu restriction on access levels (#128)

I provided a partial update, but the response from the t3 folks was very dismissive - effectively saying that it was "impossible to support the full J2 user levels and why would anyone want any more than the standard J1.5 ones anyway".

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I am not stopping this from being fixed - the Joomlart people are doing that. I am just not going to put the effort into writing a fix when the Joomlart people have made it clear that they don't want it and won't merge it!

@Sophist-UK - you're the man