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[Aragorn]

Hi...

Newbie Question:

I've just set up several "Speed Bar" Menu items, and they are now also showing up in the "HELP" menu on the bottom left side of my screen.

Questions:

1) How can I delete these from the "HELP" menu?

2) How can I setup additional menus (like the CATEGORIES menu and the HELP menu on the front page)?

Thanks for any help on this...


Kindest Regards,
Aragorn

[GM]

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING MAKE A BACKUP COPY OF ALL FILES YOU WILL WORK ON!!! (in this case the help.tpl)

To delete items from your help menu go to skin1/help.tpl (with ftp) or just help.tpl in Admin center under "Edit Templates" and you will see something like this:

{* $Id: help.tpl,v 1.16 2003/11/17 07:30:40 svowl Exp $ *}
{capture name=menu}

{$lng.lbl_recover_password}

{$lng.lbl_contact_us}

{$lng.lbl_privacy_statement}

{$lng.lbl_terms_n_conditions}

{include file="pages_menu.tpl"}


{/capture}
{ include file="menu.tpl" dingbats="dingbats_help.gif" menu_title=$lng.lbl_help menu_content=$smarty.capture.menu link_href="help.php"}

You would then remove the areas that I have marked in blue as well as any other area that looks similar or is a link.

As far as creating new menus it is a little more involved... what did you have in mind?

[jin]

>>Maxter
Have you solved your problem? I have similar problem, but in my case
whenever I create static HTML page, the page link shows up in HELPmenu.
And I also would love to add some more categories in HELP menu.
I believe default categories in HELP menu are those five:
- Recover password

- FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

- Privacy statement

- Terms & Conditions

- About our site

I'd like to add pages such as "How to order" page, "About Shipping" page... within help area.

Anyone has idea?
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v.3.5.9 Linux

[Aragorn]

Originally Posted by jin

>>Aragorn
Have you solved your problem? I have similar problem, but in my case
whenever I create static HTML page, the page link shows up in HELPmenu.
And I also would love to add some more categories in HELP menu.
I believe default categories in HELP menu are those five:
- Recover password

- FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

- Privacy statement

- Terms & Conditions

- About our site

I'd like to add pages such as "How to order" page, "About Shipping" page... within help area.

Anyone has idea?
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v.3.5.9 Linux

[markwhoo]

Originally Posted by jin

>>Maxter
Have you solved your problem? I have similar problem, but in my case
whenever I create static HTML page, the page link shows up in HELPmenu.
And I also would love to add some more categories in HELP menu.
I believe default categories in HELP menu are those five:
- Recover password

- FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

- Privacy statement

- Terms & Conditions

- About our site

I'd like to add pages such as "How to order" page, "About Shipping" page... within help area.

Anyone has idea?
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v.3.5.9 Linux

Create a static page and give it a name, then with the position numbers to the left of all of the files in the static pages area, you will be able to adjust their positions.

Ps, any static page toy make, will be listed automatically in the help area.

[brightway]

Sticking it in the Help section is quite annoying.
After-all what happens if it doesn't have anything to do with help.

If anything it should automatically be added to the speed bar.

[kem]

Originally Posted by brightway

Sticking it in the Help section is quite annoying.
After-all what happens if it doesn't have anything to do with help.

If anything it should automatically be added to the speed bar.

I agree. Most of my static pages have nothing to do with help. And apparently it requires major editing of templates to address remove them from the help menu. (When a poster says that the text to revise is too long to post, that to me means major editing. )

[balinor]

It is actually pretty easy to remove them from the help menu. Personally, I like to create new help menus in the help section instead of using static pages. The static pages I usually use for specific links elsewhere in the site.

[kem]

Originally Posted by balinor

It is actually pretty easy to remove them from the help menu. Personally, I like to create new help menus in the help section instead of using static pages. The static pages I usually use for specific links elsewhere in the site.

Yes, I think I have a similar setup - my static pages are called by links from product pages (and are not help topics). How do I edit them out of the help.tpl? There doesn't appear to "static.tpl" (or whatever it would be called).

[balinor]

Open up help.tpl and remove or comment out this little bit of code:

{include file="pages_menu.tpl"}