Delete Menu Item node for Joomla

Overview

Delete Menu Item is a Step (action) in Menu. Deletes a site menu item by alias (menu type + alias) or legacy numeric id.

When the flow reaches this step, JOrchestrator executes Delete 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.

Why use this node

Delete 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 Delete Menu Item to a flow:

Delete Menu Item on your linked Joomla site when the flow reaches this step
Delete menu item based on webhook, schedule, or CMS event data
Integrate Menu operations with messaging, AI, or database steps in one canvas

Example workflows

Common patterns on the canvas:

Trigger or Webhook → upstream steps → Delete Menu Item → Send Email or CMS update
Scheduled trigger → Delete Menu Item → Debug (while testing) → production action

How to set it up

If the item is already gone, the node succeeds with deleted: false and not_found: true (logged in execution logs).

Good to know

Remove child items first if Joomla blocks delete on nested menus.

Properties panel

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

System (automatic — not edited by the user)

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	—	—

User-configured — General tab

Property key	Label	Type	Required	Visible when	Notes
`label`	Label	`text`	No	—	Node label

User-configured — Design tab

Property key	Label	Type	Required	Visible when	Notes
`confirm`	Confirm deletion	`checkbox`	No	—	—

CMS-backed (options from the linked site)

Property key	Label	Type	Required	Visible when	Notes
`menuType`	Menu	`menu-type-select`	Yes	—	Select menu
`alias`	Menu item to delete	`menu-item-select`	Yes	—	Select item

CMS site configuration (not on this node's properties panel)

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.

Output payload fields

After this step runs, later nodes can reference these fields using placeholders such as {{delete_menu_item.id}}.

Field key	Type	Description
`id`	string	Primary record identifier.
`alias`	string	URL-safe alias / slug.
`deleted`	boolean	Whether the record was deleted.
`not_found`	boolean	Boolean flag from this node's output.
`message`	string	Human-readable status, error, or result summary.

Related nodes

Other steps in the same area of the palette:

Create Menu Item (create-menu-item) — Menu
Update Menu Item (update-menu-item) — Menu

Delete Menu Item for Joomla