Hi,

I've recently launched a XOOPS site for a Ski Lodge after having decided that XOOPS is better than Mambo:

http://www.eumarellah.com.au/cms

Only members of the lodge have access as registered members. I am having a weird problem with the User Menu though. Admin users sometimes log in and find the Administration Menu item missing. All the others are visible and active (View Account, Edit Account etc) but Administration Menu disappears and then reappears after awhile, even while logged in it suddenly reappears. Can't figure out why at the moment and have had no luck searching these forums to see if anyone else has come across this. I have hacked header.php to get the drop down menus happening in the smarty template but that's all. Any ideas anybody?

are you using template caching on the User Menu block?

Check "System" -> "Blocks" -> Edit "User Menu"

Yep it was set to 1 hour. I guess a non admin user had logged in and caused it to be cached. Many thanks!!

Carefully check all your cache settings. Any content that should be different for various group levels should not be cached. You found the menus doing that, same for other content that perhaps only an admin should see. Sometimes the module can be cached but the block should not. And sometimes the other way. Careful thought is needed.