Joomla! Issue Tracker | Joomla! CMS #13613 - you cannot remove the position from a menu module once you have given it one

Closed
17 Jan 2017
Medium
Build: 3.6.5
# 13613

shoulders
16 Jan 2017

Steps to reproduce the issue

create a menu module, assign a menu position and then save. when you go back into the module you can remove the module position. It will not let you select 'none' as it does not exist.

Expected result

Be able to selecy the position type 'none' and save it.

Actual result

You cannot select none, the position does not exist.

System information (as much as possible)

Joomla 3.6.5
Database Version 5.5.5-10.1.13-MariaDB
Database Collation utf8_general_ci
Database Connection Collation utf8mb4_general_ci
PHP Version 5.6.21
Web Server Apache/2.4.17 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.2d PHP/5.6.21
WebServer to PHP Interface apache2handler
Joomla! Version Joomla! 3.6.5 Stable [ Noether ] 1-December-2016 22:46 GMT
Joomla! Platform Version Joomla Platform 13.1.0 Stable [ Curiosity ] 24-Apr-2013 00:00 GMT
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0

Additional comments

The only way to get a menu module with no position is to delete it and then recreate it. There are many frameworks out there that need you to have modules with no position set, including menu modules

shoulders - open - 16 Jan 2017

joomla-cms-bot - labeled - 16 Jan 2017

shoulders - comment - 16 Jan 2017

create a menu module, assign a menu position and then save. when you go back into the module you can remove the module position. It will not let you select 'none' as it does not exist.

This should read cannot remove

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Twincarb - comment - 16 Jan 2017

Is this a Joomla issue or a feature that would live in a template. The CMS will only allow you to asign or reasign to a position in the template, so the logic is correct that you can't select none unless that is a valid position in the template.

It would only need to be added as a position to the xml file and not added into the template index.php itself.

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shoulders - comment - 16 Jan 2017

I have just checked that this is the case for other modules and it is. I have just gone to an older version of joomla 3.3.6 and you can remove module positions there. There is a cross. Please see the attached image.