Configuration

Basic options

Title

If this value is set, an H3 title is displayed before menu. It differs to built-in Joomla module title in place where it displays. Built-in Joomla module title displays out of div with class "module" tag, but this title displays in it. If not value set, no H3 tag is in HTML.

CSS class

The class of module root DIV tag. If you set it you have the ability to apply individual style to current module menu.

Category to get data from

The main option of the module. Selected category becomes the root menu item of automatically generated menu.

Categories first

If Yes, all categories are displayed before articles in parent menu item.

Truncate long titles

Select truncate type if you need in it.

Truncate limit count

If truncation type is By words count, this option limits maximum number of words in title.

If truncation type is By symbols count, this option limits maximum number of symbols in title.

Add dots

If title was truncted, this option if set to Yes says to plugin to add 3 dots (eclipses) to the end of title.

Index articles

Use index article for category

If Yes, Auto Category Menu module tries to detect index article by checking category's child article's alias for matching to regular expression.

Hide index article

If index article found and Yes set to this option, found article becomes hidden.

Index article URL regexp

A regular expression to detect index article. If we have an category, we check all its articles' URLs (after their processing by SEF Router) for matching to this regular expression. If one of them matches to it, this article's link is used also as category's menu item link.

Filtering

Only published categories

If set to Yes, all categories without published status will not be queried and displayed.

Category query depth

The depth to query categories. -1 means unlimited depth, 0 means just selected category, 1 - category + its articles, 2 - category + subcategory + its articles, etc.

Union depth

Sometimes you want to merge first levels of your menu as they are one level. If this value more then 0, all articles in selected number of categories levels are places in root category, their native categories are removed from table.

Hide upper elements

When user selected some category or article you may want to hide parent categories upper then some level. To do it, use this parameter.

Hide lower elements

Sometimes you want not to show deep levels of menu structure when some element selected. You can use this parameter for it. All categories and articles deeper then selected element more then selected level are hidden. Very effective with "Hide other branches" parameter.

Hide lower root elements

If value of this parameter differs from -1 and no menu item is selected in this moment, this option says to Auto Category Menu module about how many levels of menu it is to show. 0 means just root item and its children, 1 - root, its children and children of children, etc.

Hide other branches

If set to Yes, will be displayed:

• Full structure (articles and categories) deeper than selected item (in its branch).
• All parent categories on whole path.
• All sibling items (articles and categories) without their children.

Remove hidden elements

If set to YES, all hidden menu items are removed and does not display in HTML in any way. If set to NO they just have new CSS class "hidden", and you can handle their hiding manually.

Hide module if nothing selected

This module not shows at all if this option is set to YES.

Swap items

Sometimes you need to quickly swap items order not changing articles' weight values in Joomla backend. So you may to write a pairs of articles' or categories' IDs you want to swap here. All two values in a row must be from one level. All categories' IDs must have prefix c (without quotes).

For example, if you want to swap atrticles with IDs 5 and 20, write new line:

5 20

If you want to swap categories with IDs 2 and 12, write new line:

c2 c12

Dropdown menu options

Vertical menu

The type of menu:

• Horizontal: all items are as in standard horizontal system menu of desktop applications.
• Vertical: a column with items expanded to the left.
• Horizontal Twitter Bootstrap (experimental): horizontal menu supports Twitter Bootstrap. All other dropdown menu specific options for this module not applies if selected this option (menu controled by Bootstrap).

Auto arrows

If YES was choosen, arrow mark-up generates automatically

Drop shadows

Completely disable drop shadows by setting this to NO.

Dropdown speed

Speed of animation of expanding submenus.

Outside delay

The delay in milliseconds that the mouse can remain outside a submenu without it closing.