MenuManager: active state of parent node(s) does not show

[elektric]

Hi,

I've been using CMSMS for years, truely the best CMS: thx dudes, but...

CMSMS version: 1.9.2

Related to: MenuManager

Short problem description: "active" state of the parent menu-items is not visible as some class (class="menuactive" or something like that) if you use a menu that shows only a "number_of_levels" and if you are at a level deeper than the shown number_of_levels;

Long problem description:
Let's say this is my menu structure:

• home
• about
• products
  • producttype1
    • product1_1
    • product1_2
    • product1_3
  • producttype2
    • product2_1
  • producttype3
    • product3_1
• contact

Let's make a menu in a products-template (used for the products-page and every producttype- & product-page) like this:

Code: Select all

{menu template="some-standard-tpl-lets-say-simple_navigation.tpl" start_level="2" number_of_levels="1"}

showing me a list of the producttypes.
Then when I am at a producttype-page, the "active"-state is mentioned in the current menu-item
BUT, when I am at a product-page (a child of a producttype-page),
the parent-producttype-page is not marked as "active" or alike, so I could highlight it in the menu...

Same thing if we would make a custom global tabbed sitemenu with the items
home - about - products - contact
If I would select the products-page, then the products-menuitem is selected/active (which we can "style" to look selected)
but if I go deeper, onto a producttype- or product-page, then the products-menuitem is not selected any more...

A possible solution:
The only solution I found so far is printing ALL the childnodes, and hiding them using CSS, but this is mega-overkill...
as I need to do this for every separete menu...
(Or using javascript to move parts of a sitemap menu of check a "selected" state of an item, hmmmm)

Since?
This problem is new I guess, because I never had this problem with older versions...
(eg CMSMS v1.5.2, with MenuManager v1.5.3)

Reproduce it
I noticed that ofcourse the CMSMS "demo" shows this "bug":

• ok: http://demo.opensourcecms.com/cmsmadesi ... horizontal
  in this case, the tab is selected, because you are on a page that is part of the "hidden" submenu of that tab (hover over the tab to see the menu-item)
• not ok: http://demo.opensourcecms.com/cmsmadesi ... e=top_left
  tab is not highlighted anymore, although we are in the same "section" as the link before

Thanks in advance for helping me with some .tpl-code that could solve this
or some bugfix in some other MenuManager related file.

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Edit: apparently this bug was already reported and will be fixed in CMSMS v1.9.3.

[tbunt]

I am having the same issue. This bug does not exist in CMS Made Simple 1.7.1 so I am assuming it was introduced quite recently.

I believe the following code is what triggeres the addition of the class for top level items:
{elseif $node->parent == true && $node->depth == 1 and $node->type != 'sectionheader' and $node->type != 'separator'}

It is still in the menu templates for 1.9.2 so it must be a bug that it no longer works.

[Dr.CSS]

A quick search of the forum would have told you this is a known bug and is fixed when 1.9.3 comes out...

[tbunt]

With respect, I did a search of the forum last night and then again this morning. This was the only post I managed to find.

Maybe I need to brush up on my search skills

[elektric]

ok Dr.CSS, thus help is on the way...

thx tbunt:
indeed I searched the board, and the net thoroughly before I registered & "spammed" this board;
probably the post you found about the problem just has a better bug-description with more relevant keywords

[elektric]

CMSMS v1.9.3 is released, and indeed: problem solved