Menu confusion

[atilla]

Hi, after having read much documentation I am somewhat confused with how menus integrate. No doubt the question may sound dumb but I am finding this topic difficult to get my head round.

This is my scenario, I have a template which has level 1 navigation along the top and level 2 navigation down the side.

Assuming level one navigation is made up of 'home, widgets, sprockets', and each has a pull down menu.  I add a new page called 'blue sprockets' using my template, how do I ensure the new navigation entry is added under sprokets and not under one of the other menu items?

or even down the side in level 2.

I come from an html background and get easily confused!!!

J

[Rolf]

Assuming level one navigation is made up of 'home, widgets, sprockets', and each has a pull down menu.  I add a new page called 'blue sprockets' using my template, how do I ensure the new navigation entry is added under sprokets and not under one of the other menu items?

When making a new page you can change the parent of that page. (default=none -> level 1)
This way you can place the page under home, widgets or sprockets...

Hope this helps.

®olf

[atilla]

Thank you Rolf
I will delve further into this.
J

[wcwooldridge]

I'm hitting what I believe to be a very similar problem.

Menu (page) structure as follows.

home
page1
  subpage1
  subpage2
  subpage3
page2

I have a level one menu across top of page that correctly shows home/page1/page1.

I have the following menu call in my page template

{menu template="my_menu_template" start_level="2" number_of_levels="3"}

I get nothing.

When I change my menu call to

{menu template="mspl_subnav" start_page="page1" number_of_levels="3"}

the menu works as expected.  I'm sure this is not the proper way to code.  I've looked at http://themes.cmsmadesimple.org/Howto/m ... tions.html as a guide plus this post and Richard's tutorial does not worked.  I've backed all the way back to calling without a menu template just to see output and I still get nothing for the level 2 menu.

Any ideas what to look for?  Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

Craig

[Rolf]

Hi wcwooldridge

check: http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 147.0.html

grtz. Rolf

[wcwooldridge]

Thanks Rolf, work as advertised.

[Dr.CSS]

They were having a known bug problem with 1.6.5 menus, this is why we ask for so much info when you post, had they said right off the bat they were using that version and had second level menu problems answer would have come in first answer...


Please give more info when posting...