Keep needing to Rebuild Menus, why?

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adamlebo
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Keep needing to Rebuild Menus, why?

Post by adamlebo » Tue Feb 04, 2014 4:16 pm

I have been running a Joomla 3.0 site since 3.x was released, several times now after rearranging menu item ordering all of my menu's have gotten messed up and I have had to use the 'Rebuild' tool from the menu manager to fix things.

I am grateful for this tool to exist, but I am curious as to what is going wrong on the Joomla backend when this happens. Clearly this issue is know because a tool exists to fix it. Are there steps that I can take to stop this from happening? I am also worried if/when the Rebuild tool were to not fix the menus what would I do?

Thanks for any insight.

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Re: Keep needing to Rebuild Menus, why?

Post by bradm » Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:22 pm

Hi adamlebo,

I don't know too much about the rebuild feature, but I'd like to try and help.

The official documentation says the rebuild option:
Reconstructs and refreshes the menu table. Normally, you do not need to rebuild this table. This function is provided in case the data in the table becomes corrupted
Someone having a similar issue was suggested to:
* Menu Manager > Rebuild
* Extensions > Database > Fix

Have you tried the database > fix option before?
Please let me know if I can help any further.
Thanks, BradM, with http://www.inmotionhosting.com Support

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Re: Keep needing to Rebuild Menus, why?

Post by adamlebo » Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:59 pm

Thanks for the reply Brad. I will test the Database Fix and see if that helps prevent issues.


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