Menu that shows siblings only

[Guy001]

Hi,

Has anyone managed to make a menu that shows only the current page and siblings of that page?

I think it's possible with Ellnav but Im finding Ellnav very buggy so would prefer to use the new Menu Manager if possible.

Mucho appreciato.

[genassist]

Did you (or anyone else) get anywhere with this? I have the same requirement, if someone else has come up with something, it would be useful..

Thanks..

[Ted]

Menu Manager does this now.  The Split Menu page in the default site shows it working.

[Dr.CSS]

in the help for menu manager under Extensions » Modules

    * (optional) template="bulletmenu.tpl" - The template to use for displaying the menu. Templates will come from the database templates unless the template name ends with .tpl, in which case it will come from a file in the MenuManager templates directory
    * (optional) start_page="home" - Starts the menu displaying at the given start_page and showing that element and it's children only. Takes a page alias.
    * (optional) start_element="1.2" - Starts the menu displaying at the given start_element and showing that element and it's children only. Takes a hierarchy position (e.g. 5.1.2).
    * (optional) start_level="2" - This option will have the menu only display items starting a the given level. An easy example would be if you had one menu on the page with number_of_levels='1'. Then as a second menu, you have start_level='2'. Now, your second menu will show items based on what is selected in the first menu.
    * (optional) show_root_siblings="1" - This option only becomes useful if start_element or start_page are used. It basically will display the siblings along side of the selected start_page/element.
    * (optional) number_of_levels="1" - This setting will only allow the menu to only display a certain number of levels deep.
    * (optional) items="contact,home" - Use this item to select a list of pages that this menu should display. The value should be a list of page aliases separated with commas.
    * (optional) collapse="1" - Turn on (set to 1) to have the menu hide items not related to the current selected page.
    * (optional) lang="en_US" - Parameter is used to specify what language to use for display on the frontend. Not all modules support or need this.

  HTH
          mark

[genassist]

OK, in my navigation element in my template:-

{cms_module module='menumanager' collapse='1' start_level='2' showtoplevel='0'}

Which shows the respective child pages for that section. Exactly what I wanted.

Thanks for your direction.

[urbanroute]

This should be very simple to do but I haven't figured it out yet nor have a I seen this posted before:

I have a menu with child elements and I want to start / expand one menu but still show the other parent menus:

Menu 1
Menu 2
    Menu 2.1
    Menu 2.2
Menu 3
Menu 4

Seems all the optional parameters allow you to start somewhere but then only show that menu item and it's child elements. IE:

{menu template='simple_navigation.tpl' collapse='1' start_element='2'}

Will only show

Menu 2
    Menu 2.1
    Menu 2.2

But what about showing all Menus 1, 3 and 4?

Thanks for the help.

[Dr.CSS]

The one you want is like the first page in a default install... {menu template='simple_navigation.tpl' collapse='1'}

[urbanroute]

Thank you for your speedy reply!

That's what I have right now, I don't think I wrote my question properly.

By deafault (when I first load the site / or click on the home page) I would like the first menu item to be expanded. So it looks like:

Menu 1
Menu 2
    Menu 2.1
    Menu 2.2
Menu 3
Menu 4

Right now I get that expansion only if I click on Menu 2. The reason is that the default display of:

Menu 1
Menu 2
Menu 3
Menu 4

Does not look inviting as opening a Menu for the visitor to start looking around.

Thank you again for your help, is there a way to do this?

Best Regards,
Ryan

[Dr.CSS]

If you have no other children, or don't care if they show also you can take out the collapse="1" part of the menu tag...

If you have other child items but don't want them expanded then you will have to target 2.1 & 2.2 individually to be expanded...

[urbanroute]

Thanks again for the reply and help.

I need a little more direction to get through my newbie head.

I have many child elements in the site that look like this:

1

2
2.1
2.1.1
2.1.2

3
3.1
3.1.1
3.1.2
3.2
3.3

4

Right now I am using collapse="1" without any other parameters so it looks like this:

1
2
3
4

... and not inviting, so I want to expand one menu by default to show it's child menus, like so:

1

2
2.1
2.1.1
2.1.2

3
4

I think I've tried every optional parameter but they all seem to give you all or nothing IE: I can get menu 2 and it's children to show when I open the site up, but then menu 2 is the only thing showing. If  I specify all menu items to show, then they show out of their hierarchy.

When you say Target specific elements I tried using includeprefix and or items parameters but they did not work as I would like.

Many thanks,
Ryan

[Dr.CSS]

You will have to make a copy of the menu template and add {$node->alias} to it and then in CSS add display:block to those page alias' a bunch of other stuff that is beyond the scope of an answer here...

sorry...

[urbanroute]

I wasn't sure if this was an easy task or not, looks like it's more involved then just using a optional parameter. I also assumed someone else has tried this before but I guess I'm wrong on that one too.

Thanks for your help. I'll leave it the way it is until I have some to figure it out using a custom template. 

Ryan