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Thanks, I'm assuming you mean the Responsive 2 release?
what's the ETA Paul?
It's been a rough ride as I've unfortunately wasted much time with many glitches in Zentools2, Responsive2 and the Venture template.
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I'm working through your other issues now.

As you know Zentools2 is a new product so there are bound to be teething issues. The insight into how the inputs rendered in the admin in firefox were very helpful, but they shouldn't have prevented you from using the module.

The black line issue is what happens when images are resized at different ratios and as Paul pointed out it was fixed by adjusting the ratio. This will happen in a lot of resizing scripts and indeed happened in some circumstances in Zentools v1 and other resize scripts Ive used..

As I explained in the ticket regarding the button I cant see that locally and it only happens in one of your themes - ie not the default themes. The other themes compile as expected. So I am still trying to find the source of the issue but it;s not occurring with the copy I have here.

Some of the issues in Venture were bugs that we are grateful for you seeing but others were more related to the learning curve to learning our system.

The issue with the phone not rendering was because you didn't have the closing tag on the zen icon syntax.

I'll update your tickets shortly.

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Thanks Anthony.
As you know I've also looked for documentation online, prior to reaching out to support and have found blank pages. Keep in mind that time is spent looking and searching for "what am i doing wrong here?" prior to posting. Wasted time that no one sees.

Regarding the closing tag, remember that I did included it, it still didn't work and I searched some more to see what I was doing wrong. Nowhere did it mention the local file would not work.

regarding the buttons... I don't quite understand. I'm just using the theme as I normally would. I would call it the "default" but maybe I'm misunderstanding.

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Hi Giles,

Anthony is away for a couple of days but will reply / check the ticket as soon as he can

Enjoy the weekend :)

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Thanks Paul.
Have a great weekend as well.
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Cheers :)
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Hi Paul,
Trying very hard to make my sidebar menu use ZT2.
I have articles in categories. I want the category names to be the toggles to reveal the articles withing these categories. I can not get this to work.
I referred to:
zentools2.joomlabamboo.com/zentools-layout-styles/accordion
to no avail.
How can I get my menu to behave this way using ZT2?
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Hi

I think perhaps waiting for the update might be a better idea so it fixes the menu icon issue

Anthony has fixed it locally so depending on Anthony's availability (currently away) it will released shortly

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Thanks Paul,
Are you talking about a ZT update or a Responsive2 update?
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Responsive2 update

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But, given your advice, I'm using Zentools2 for the sidebar menu.
So my last question is regarding its configuration in order to make the accordion work as expected.
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Hi Giles,

I'm afraid I gave you some dud advice regarding zentools2 and the accordion - it can't work how you want it to

So you will need to use the template accordion - please download the latest version of the template and install - the icon issue should be resolved but you may need to compile first

Cheers and my apologies

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Darn!
OK... back to the original solution then.
I'll report back if I need help. Hopefully It allows me to change the look of the arrow as I'd rather have a bigger "+" icon as a trigger.
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sorry about that

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OK.. so I'm back at using the accordion style of menu to do what I want. Indeed I looked but can not find where/how to change the look of the accordion. I want to change the right arrow to a fairly large plus sign.

Any ideas? Must it be done via CSS? I'm assuming it's customizable via a panel somewhere.

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Hi Giles,

Its either changing the php file or adjusting the css for the Chevron

There isn't a setting to adjust this template wise

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I was afraid of that. :S

I'll target this :

.zen-icon-chevron-right::before {
content: "";

Can you steer me in the right direction in changing the "content" please? I see this odd looking box, there must be a code I need to insert.. .where would I find a list to find my desired "+"?

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Hi G,

It would be

.zen-icon-chevron-right:before {
content: "\f067";
}

.zen-icon-chevron-up:before {
content: "\f068";
}

Using a plus and minus

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I'm taking the fontawesome css and applying it to the open and close

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Thanks a bunch Paul!
I'll add specificity to ensure only the siderbar chevron is changed.

In order for me to find othes without having to ask you in the future, where are these codes listed?
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