#323 – Error Using Tracktime

 I am developing a Joomla 2.5 website for a non-profit and have encountered an issue with using the Tracktime extension. I was able to download and install it with no issues. It does appear as an item under Components. However, when I try to assign it to a menu, it does not appear as a selection in the dropdown. In addition, it gives me three errors, all the same (see attachment):

Error loading component: com_pftime, 1
Error loading component: com_pftime, 1
Error loading component: com_pftime, 1

Please advise as soon as possible as I need to move quickly on this website. If I can get the free version to work, perhaps I may purchase the Pro version.

Hello Margaret,

we are not the developers of com_pftime, you should ask support to them.

Davide,
You are correct, the error messages relating to com_pftime were a leftover from a previously installed extension.

Thus, I deleted the menu item and re-added one to ensure that there were no carry-over issues.

In doing so, I still have the issue I outlined above. I was able to download and install it with no issues. It does appear as an item under Components. However, when I try to assign it to a menu, it does not appear as a selection in the dropdown.

I have attached a copy of the selections in the menu dropdown to prove that indeed Tracktime is not there as a selection option.

Please advise as soon as possible as I need to move quickly on this website. If I can get the free version to work, perhaps I may purchase the Pro version.

Here is the attachment I refer to above.

I think you hit a very nasty bug inside Joomla.
Sometimes, if a component fails to create the menu entry, your menu table gets corrupted: Joomla will create the new entry outside the main tree (so you won't be able to select it) or, even worse, it will create it in the right place, put it is unpublished by default and the user has no way to enabled it (!!!).

Sadly these are Joomla bugs, they were reported long time ago, but they said that we have to wait for a proper fix...
Time is passing but no fix has been published, however we are working for a workaround that will be released in the next version.

In the meantime, I'd suggest you to try to reinstall TrackTime (without uninstalling it), if the menu is still missing, please try to uninstall and reinstall again.
I'm sorry for the trouble, but as you can understand, that's something not related to our software.

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