Publish and Unpublish Sidebar Module from the Front End

[adricist]

Hi,

We have a Menu that is displayed in the Sidebar Left and another Menu that is displayed in the Top Menu position.

Is there a way to have a menu item in the Top Menu position that would allow the user to display or hide the Sidebar Menu?

It basically would be either one or two menu items that would allow to set the Sidebar Module to be Published or Unpublished for that particular user only!

Is this possible?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Regards,
Adri

[Per Yngve Berg]

Can't you just make a sub-menu?

https://docs.joomla.org/split_menus

[adricist]

Can't you just make a sub-menu?

https://docs.joomla.org/split_menus

No Per. What we need is the ability to recover the Sidebar width, so that more width of the browser window becomes available for the article.

[Per Yngve Berg]

The children will only show when the parent is active.

Did you read the docs on how to create a split Menu?

[adricist]

The children will only show when the parent is active.

Did you read the docs on how to create a split Menu?

Per, are you suggesting that I should create a Parent without Children? And use that as an option to hide the Sidebar Menu?

If so, I still think that the Sidebar position would still be active, but only displaying an empty container. This would not release the space taken by the Sidebar position.

[ceford]

You could put a button in the top position to toggle visibility of the sidebar. That would work like the Atum admin menu except that you could make the sidebar disappear/reappear completely. It would require some coding. Perhaps a menu module override?

[gws]

Could you create a child template without anything in the sidebar and assign this to the page you don't want the module on.

[Per Yngve Berg]

1) Create a new Menu Item in Mai Menu

2) Move all Items from Sidebar Menu to Mai Menu and set them as Children

3) Edit Sidebar Module to show Mainmenu.

4) Set Start and End Levels on Sidebar Module.

[adricist]

You could put a button in the top position to toggle visibility of the sidebar. That would work like the Atum admin menu except that you could make the sidebar disappear/reappear completely. It would require some coding. Perhaps a menu module override?

Would this work just for that user? Or would it apply to all users? I need this to only disappear for that user, not everyone.

[adricist]

1) Create a new Menu Item in Mai Menu

2) Move all Items from Sidebar Menu to Mai Menu and set them as Children

3) Edit Sidebar Module to show Mainmenu.

4) Set Start and End Levels on Sidebar Module.

Thank you Per and everyone for your suggestions. I will try and setup a demo site so that it becomes easier to explain what I am trying to achieve.