Create Menu Item is a Step (action) in Menu. Creates a new Joomla menu item linking to a page, article, or component view.
Create Menu Item is a Step (action) in Menu. Creates a new Joomla menu item linking to a page, article, or component view.
When the flow reaches this step, JOrchestrator executes Create Menu Item against your linked site or an external integration, using the field values you set on General and Design. Downstream steps can read the output payload fields defined for this node.
Create Menu Item is a action step in the Menu group. Action steps run in the middle or end of a flow. They perform work on your CMS, call external services, or transform data for the next step.
Typical reasons teams add Create Menu Item to a flow:
Common patterns on the canvas:
Menu type, title, link type, and parent item on the Design tab.
Alias and component routing follow com_menus rules — invalid links fail at save time.
The designer shows these tabs for this node:
| Tab | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Info | Plain-language description and output payload fields for downstream steps |
| General | Canvas label and read-only node ID |
| AI | Optional assistant to help draft settings from plain language |
| Design | Node-specific configuration fields |
These fields are managed by the designer or runtime — you do not type into them directly:
| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
_nodeId | Node ID | node-id | No | — | — |
_payloadFields | Available Fields | payload-panel | No | — | — |
| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
label | Label | text | No | — | Node label |
| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
menuLinkType | Item type | select (url | component | separator | heading | alias; default: url) | No | — | — |
title | Title | payload-text | Yes | — | Menu label or {{placeholder}} |
link | Link | payload-text | No | menuShowLinkField | index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1 or https://… |
alias | Alias (optional) | text | No | — | URL segment; auto if empty |
published | Published | select (0 | 1; default: 1) | No | — | — |
| Property key | Label | Type | Required | Visible when | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
menuType | Menu | menu-type-select | Yes | — | Select menu (from Joomla) |
parent | Parent item | menu-item-select | No | — | Under which item (or root) |
Credentials, API keys, mailers, SMTP, and integration defaults are configured in the CMS plugin under Node Configuration, not per step on this node. Link the flow to a domain before testing CMS-backed fields.
After this step runs, later nodes can reference these fields using placeholders such as {{create_menu_item.id}}.
| Field key | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
id | string | Primary record identifier. |
title | string | Title text for the created or updated record. |
link | string | Canonical link URL for the record. |
menuType | string | Joomla menu identifier (e.g. mainmenu). |
parent_id | string | Parent category or menu item ID. |
alias | string | URL-safe alias / slug. |
type | string | Text value from this node's output. |
published | number | Published flag (0 or 1). |
title) must be filled before the flow can be saved.Other steps in the same area of the palette:
delete-menu-item) — Menuupdate-menu-item) — Menu