JoomPlaza templates

Hide a view

Within your component, for instance in the bar view in the foo component, you have a metadata.xml-file:

/components/com_foo/views/bar/metadata.xml

The first three lines of this component might look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<metadata>
    <view title="Bar">
        <message><![CDATA[BARDESC]]></message>
    </view>
</metadata>

To hide this view from the menu manager, all you have to do is add the parameter hidden=true to the view element, like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<metadata>
    <view title="Bar" hidden="true">
        <message><![CDATA[BARDESC]]></message>
    </view>
</metadata>

You can also hide a view by using an underscore in it’s name.

Hide a layout

Hiding a layout is done in a similar manner, but here you have to edit the layout’s XML-file. Let’s say you want to hide the default layout in the same view as in the example above. You then have to edit this file:

/components/com_foo/views/bar/tmpl/default.xml

In the same manner as above, you add hidden=”true”, but this time you add it to the layout element in the XML-file.

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