Problem to create different menus

[neiya]

Hello

I have a website with only few pages (8) and I would like to separate my content in two different menus : one with 3 items, the other one with 5 items.

How can I indicate that I want these three pages going to this menu and the other ones going to another menu (using the same template) ?
Moreover the website is multilingual so I can't use the page's alias because it will only work with one language.

My structure is something like that :

1. English
1.1 Home
1.2 ...
1.3 ...
1.4 ...
1.5 ...
1.6 ...
1.7 ...
1.8 ...

2. French
2.1 Home
2.2 ...
2.3 ...
2.4 ...
2.5 ...
2.6 ...
2.7 ...
2.8 ...

And I would like to have
menu 1 : x.1 ; x.2 ; x.3
menu 2 : x.4 ; x.5 ; x.6...

Maybe it could be easier with this structure ? :

1. English
1.1 Infos
1.1.1 ...
1.1.2 ...
1.1.3 ...
1.2 ...
1.3 ...
1.4 ...
1.5 ...

2. French
2.1 Infos
2.1.1 ...
2.1.2 ...
2.1.3 ...
2.2 ...
2.3 ...
2.4 ...
2.5 ...

Sorry for my bad english, just tell me if you don't understand my problem

Mathilde

[neiya]

I succeeded in displaying the first menu with : {menu start_level="3" number_of_levels="3"}
(based on the second structure I put in my post)

But I still can't manage the second one

[velden]

I'm thinking of two menu templates (assuming CMSMS 1.x)

I did not test!

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<ul>
{for $i=0  to 2}
{assign var=node value=$nodelist[$i]}
<li{if $node->current} class="active"{/if}><a href="{$node->url}">{$node->menutext}</a></li>
{/for}
</ul>

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<ul>
{for $i=2  to 7}
{assign var=node value=$nodelist[$i]}
<li{if $node->current} class="active"{/if}><a href="{$node->url}">{$node->menutext}</a></li>
{/for}
</ul>

It results in redundant code of course. It's just one approach of many.

[neiya]

Thank you for your help!

Finally I created two global content blocks for each language (4 in all) in which I put the menu and selected the aliases I wanted with items=" ".
Like that (in case it will help someone else) :
menu_one_en

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{menu items="a, b, c"}

menu_one_fr

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{menu items="a-2, b-2, c-2"}

menu_two_en

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{menu items="d, e, f"}

menu_two_fr

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{menu items="d-2, e-2, f-2"}

After that I call these two global content blocks with $lang_parent to choose the language.

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{global_content name='menu_one_$lang_parent'}
{global_content name='menu_two_$lang_parent'}

It works well but it's not very flexible for the final user.

Thank you once more for your help velden!