can you please give Info about used Template as i found #19562 for Example.

@franz-wohlkoenig completely different issue.

I can confirm that it is not possible to select a menu item of type url as the base item for a menu module

@franz-wohlkoenig It is default template. Who changes it those days?

@artur-stepien @brianteeman thanks for Info.

Is that really an issue? I kind of remember it was done on purpose, but it "could" be that the reason was to prevent that specific type of links to be used for associations when selected in the modal. Now that the modal is also used elsewhere, some tests have to be done of its impact.

yes it is really an issue.

So maybe just add a parameter that disabled URL type menu items.

The code is
<?php $uselessMenuItem = in_array($item->type, array('separator', 'heading', 'alias', 'url', 'container')); ?>

and then the link is presented with that conditional

							<?php if (!$uselessMenuItem) : ?>
								<a class="select-link" href="javascript:void(0)" data-function="<?php echo $this->escape($function); ?>" data-id="<?php echo $item->id; ?>" data-title="<?php echo $this->escape($item->title); ?>" data-uri="<?php echo 'index.php?Itemid=' . $item->id; ?>" data-language="<?php echo $this->escape($language); ?>">
									<?php echo $this->escape($item->title); ?>
								</a>
							<?php else : ?>

'separator', 'heading', 'alias', 'container' should for sure always be forbidden.

For URLs it depends if it is used or not in case of associations. Which does not mean when Associations are implemented generally speaking but only when the modal is used to set a menu item association when editing a menu item.

Found a way to solve the issue for com_menus, but doing so I found out com_associations accepts associations with urls item type which is bad.
Now looking into that.

Why not just add a new attribute to modal field that will simply add query value to iframe and by that activating url type menu items or not? That way we gonna get control over where to accept them and where not.

Hmm, II found something weird while looking at this.
We have in some xml fields of type modal_menu the element disable:
disable="separator,alias,heading,url"
But this element is not present in modal_menu type but only present for the MenuItemByType type.

This could be a remaining from before I created the first modal_menu and we were only using menuitembytype.

I have seen it for mod_login and for login/logout menu items.
I guess we should code a disable also for modal_menu if feasible.

please test #38563

Closed because of PR #38563