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I don't think you can currently direct a user to "view" their info in a Profile unless you explicitly pass in their contact ID...

...civicrm/profile/view?reset=1&id=102&gid=1

And I'm not sure you can configure a dynamic menu link in Joomla! (If others know how to do this, please jump in here.).

It should work if you're ok to link folks to the Edit form directly:

...civicrm/profile/edit?reset=1gid=1

tguill:

a code contribution for this would be great. an explanation of what the com_menu extension does and how we can incorporate it into CiviCRM would be great. We could potentially get this into 1.8 and hopefully would increase our joomla knowledge and help our joomla users

lobo

civicrm/profile/view?reset=1&id=8&gid=1

Change to:

civicrm/profile/view&reset=1&id=8&gid=1

I'm not sure why but it appears "civicrm/profile/view?reset=1&gid=1" to display contact list per profile, is the ONLY frontend page that uses a second '?' in the link.  It won't work with a '&' and all the others won't work using the '?'.

Big mystery.
 

RE: Menu Extension

Currently if you want to create a menu link in Joomla! to a CiviCRM page you use the "Link - URL" option and paste in the link manually.

An alternative to this is using the "Component" option, selecting the CiviCRM component from the list, applying the changes to view and edit the parameters.  I think this woul work...but it doesn't seem to be completed yet, as all it returns is (index.php?option=com_civicrm) and no task or parameters.

The BEST option would be a menu extension.  These are mods you upload into the /administrator/components/com_menus/ folder.  This mod can be installed when the component is installed.

This would allow the admin the ability to choose the link type (Profile, Dashboard, Contribution Page, etc...) and based on that choice, define the parameters of the link using drop-downs with the names of all the available items, instead of having to know the ID.

While this would be a nice addition (especially for the larger websites), this would NOT fix the issue of creating a menu link to a contacts profile in CiviCRM based on which user is logged in.

RE: User Profile Page/Edit Profile Page

To fix the issue a "Mambot/Plugin" could be created to correct the links.

So, the admin would create a menu link that purposely leaving the id parameter out:

index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/profile/view&reset=1&gid=1

This link would normally FAIL  and give you the error message "Could not find valid value for id" without the mambot.

The mambot would see this link without the ID defined, then it would act like CiviCRM and find the contact id based on which joomla user is logged in.  The mambot would then append the parameter to the end of the link

index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/profile/view&reset=1&gid=1&id=1

You could also probably do this with a module in a number of different ways I think.