[S.G.]

Help does not show in top menu when logged out of the OL (see screenshot 1); it appears when logged in (see screenshot 2).
Help does always show in bottom menu (see screenshot 3).

CT’s OL seems to always show help in top menu, as expected, even when logged out (see screenshot 4).

Any ideas?

Thank you!

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[Bree]

Hi Syelle,

This appears to be something specific to your site setup. I can’t reproduce this on our dev site, and it doesn’t appear to be an issue on other installs.

I’ll reach out about this separately in another message.

Thanks!

[Ed Beck]

Hi Bree,

I can reproduce a disappearing top menu on my site. Using the OpenLab theme:

The top menu does not always have graceful fallback for mobile responsive.

• On oneonta.sunycreate.cloud at Laptop Width (1024 px) the top menu is present at usable.
• When we drop down to iPad Width (768 px) the top menu disappears and is not usable.
• However, it isn’t until (425 px) that the drop-down alternative to the top menu appears.

So it appears that there is a gap in the CSS for medium size screens where the top menu isn’t usable but the mobile replacement hasn’t been included. The bottom menu operates on slightly different rules, where the bottom menu will still appear on iPad sized screens, but it will sometimes take up two lines instead of 1.

(This may be an unrelated issue, but I think it describes why help may appear sometimes and not other times)

[S.G.]

Thank you both!

[Bree]

Thanks so much, Ed!

I think the Help link problem is not related, but I’ve put in a ticket for the issue you found: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/321

[S.G.]

Hi Bree,

Helpful update! I rooted around in our dashboard and figured out that “Help” disappears from top nav when logged out only because it is the last menu item.
As a temporary fix, I moved “Calendar” to the far right, making calendar now the hidden one (screenshot), so users struggling to log in can now easily navigate to our “log-in” help doc.

Chris S. looked closer (at webpage source code, I think), and it appears that there is css code (display: none) in our cbox ol that is set to hide “My Profile” from the main nav (which again, instead hides whatever is at the end of the top nav).

From Chris:
“The last menu item is removed by CSS that has been added which has a note to hide “My Profile”

/* =============

* remove My Profile from main navigation. Right now it is added in as a li in the nav but has no id or class so the last-of-type selector used

* ============= */

#menu-main-menu-header li:last-of-type {

display: none;

}

Is there anything we can do to remove that?
Thank you!

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[S.G.]

Hi Bree,

Helpful update! I rooted around in our dashboard and figured out that “Help” disappears from top nav when logged out only because it is the last menu item.
As a temporary fix, I moved “Calendar” to the far right, making calendar now the hidden one (screenshot), so users struggling to log in can now easily navigate to our “log-in” help doc.

Chris S. looked closer (at webpage source code, I think), and it appears that there is css code (display: none) in our cbox ol that is set to hide “My Profile” from the main nav (which again, instead hides whatever is at the end of the top nav).

From Chris:
“The last menu item is removed by CSS that has been added which has a note to hide “My Profile”

/* =============

* remove My Profile from main navigation. Right now it is added in as a li in the nav but has no id or class so the last-of-type selector used

* ============= */

#menu-main-menu-header li:last-of-type {

display: none;

}

Is there anything we can do to remove that/stop hiding our last menu item?
Thank you!

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[cstein]

Hi All,

After a helpful suggestion by Boone I realized that this is a problem that we at BMCC created. We wanted to remove My Profile from the main navigation and added some CSS to do that. This is CSS that we added to our specific install. I’ve removed it but this also means that now My Profile will show in the main navigation when you’re logged in to the BMCC web site.

I’m going to make a separate post about the main nav. I think this can be considered closed.

[Bree]

Thanks for following up, Chris!

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