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afforever
PostPosted: Sun May 13, 2012 6:15 pm 
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Alright, I am creating this multilingual site for the first time and I am confused with this main menu assigned to "All" languages?

For example I have three languages required eng, french and german. Why should I create another menu which would be unpublished but just there? why do we need it?
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Alex Dobrin
PostPosted: Sun May 13, 2012 7:03 pm 
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I think you misunderstood.
If you want multilingual support you need to create a menu for each language ( so you can define the menu links in each language ).

I think this might help:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/82768844/Joom ... n-10-steps

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PostPosted: Sun May 13, 2012 7:14 pm 
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Thank you Alex for your prompt reply.

I have done everything that is mentioned in that tutorial, I have setup the site with all the languages, its menus, modules, etc... what I don't understand is that everywhere when the "main menu" is mentioned for a multilingual joomla 2.5 site, it is said to be left alone and better if we unpublish its module.

I am wondering, what is the deal with it? isn't it just another menu that we can create and delete? why is it so important to keep it there with all the other languages menus?
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PostPosted: Sun May 13, 2012 7:30 pm 
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I don't see where is it saying that and makes no sense in first creating a module and then set it to be "Unpublished".

It is a good idea to use the "Help" button and try to understand all the parameters on all pages, but in case you don't want to do that, I suggest to just follow the tutorial.

In case you refer to other tutorials that suggest not removing the main menu but just deactivate the module is using it, I think they are suggesting this only for the case you are not using any menus and obviously that is not the case for you.
The tutorials are suggesting not removing the main menu because Joomla's main page is determined based on it so you will have problems if you remove it. Again, this is the case only if you remove all the menus.

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PostPosted: Sun May 13, 2012 7:49 pm 
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that is what i don't understand either, why create a menu with language = "all" when i have all the other 3 languages setup with its menus and default home links.

I have followed the tutorial mentioned on this page http://docs.joomla.org/Language_Switche ... Joomla_1.6

in its step four you can check where it says that "Important Note: A Menu containing a unique Default Home page menu item tagged to "All" should still exist, and the menu module displaying it should not be published or assigned to a position.."

also the tutorial you suggested says the same thing in its step 6 but not mentioning about unpublishing that menu module position.

i am not deleting all menus here just want to know why that main menu should be there as suggested everywhere?
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PostPosted: Mon May 14, 2012 5:35 am 
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It is necessary to keep one Default Home page menu item set to ALL languages in a specific Menu because Joomla requires it in case the site is set to mono language voluntarily or by mistake, i.e when the language filter plugin is NOT activated and there are some default home pages set to a Content Language.
This has been explained multiple times in this forum and elsewhere.

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PostPosted: Mon May 14, 2012 7:39 am 
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thanks infograf768.. thats understandable now but I think it should be mentioned clearly in the documentation and tutorials as well..
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