I'm working on a site where we've set up a Text extra field where we are able to use the "loadposition" plugin to have a Joomla module load in a particular postion on the Item template just be entering for exmaple:

... and the module will correctly load on the template where we've placed the extra field value with:

So it occurred to me, to make life easier for our content publishers, I could set up a pull-down menu with multiple instances of "loadposition" for different modules so that they could just select it from the pull-down menu without having to go the Module manager to find out the module position.

Unfortunately though, when I try this with the Pulldown extra field type, it simply doesn't work. The module doesn't display and the loadposition tag just displays as text.

Does anybody have any ideas as to why this doesn't work and any suggestions as to how I might get it working?

Thanks

Nathan

Hello,

You will need to manually trigger content modules in order for this to work.
docs.joomla.org/Triggering_content_plugins_in_your_extension

Hi Krikor,

Thanks for the response, that does indeed work.

But I've also discovered in the meantime the "Modules Anywhere" plugin, which takes care of the triggering for you and provides a few more options than "loadposition".

Cheers

Nathan

Nice to hear that you got this sorted out Nathan :)