[solved]: Menu Manager and Navigator

[saltydog]

I have just upgraded to 2.0 and I am willing to migrate from the old Menu Manager (which I use in my site) to the new Navigator. Is there an How-To with the correct procedure for this?

[calguy1000]

There is no significant difference IIRC with the data available in the nodes in MenuManager and Navigator with exception that Navigator returns a hierarchical data structure, whereas in MenuManager it is flat.

With a hierarchical data structure you can use recursion, and things like the @first and @last and @index properties of the smarty foreach to more easily create navigations that you can then style with CSS.

There is no tutorial for conversion, because conversion depends on your menu, it's features, and what 'tricks' you had to do to get it to work in MenuManager.

There are a few sample template with a fresh installation however.

[saltydog]

Thanks! I managed to let it work. It is an easy process, indeed!

[rotezecke]

one difference i noticed today:

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{menu template="simpleTabMenu" loadprops=0 items="alias1,alias2"}

the above used to work even where alias1 and/or alias2 were flagged as don't show in menu. now required

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{Navigator template="simpleTabMenu" loadprops=0 show_all=1 items="alias1,alias2"}

[(M)]

Another one is this;
(example in Module Help, CMSMS Navigation Builder (Navigator)

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{Navigator number_of_levels=2 childrenof=$page_alias}

But it is only working with this code, without the $;

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{Navigator number_of_levels=2 childrenof='page_alias'}

[calguy1000]

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{Navigator number_of_levels=2 childrenof=$page_alias}

Works fine for me... just tested it.

[mev]

one difference i noticed today:

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{menu template="simpleTabMenu" loadprops=0 items="alias1,alias2"}

the above used to work even where alias1 and/or alias2 were flagged as don't show in menu.
now required

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{Navigator template="simpleTabMenu" loadprops=0 show_all=1 items="alias1,alias2"}

Indeed: show_all=1 had to be added to this Navigator-code! Otherwise, not any menu-item shows in my case!
Thanks rotezecke!!

willemijn