Menumanager functionality!

[climberusa]

I'm trying to use the menumanager to only show the child pages/categories of the current page. I spent two hours last night searching for a solution and trying to program it myself to no avail. I had to resort to implicitly setting the pages to show but that is only a temporary fix. Ideally i would like to set it up so at a top level page it only shows the children but if you go a level lower it only shows the siblings. So, if one of you could go ahead and build this for me by tomorrow, that'd be great.

No really though if anyone has done this or has an idea of how the logic would work or if it's even possible i would love to find out. Appreciate any help I can get.

Jeff

[cyberman]

Ideally i would like to set it up so at a top level page it only shows the children but if you go a level lower it only shows the siblings.

Create a new/second cmsms template only for child pages and call menu manager there with parameter startlevel='2'.

[climberusa]

I'll try that, but I did try every option laid out in the help page for menumanager and I was never able to have the menu only show children, it would always show the current page too even if I put start_level="2.1"

[cyberman]

OK - my mistake, sorry. Right parameter is start_level

Works for me here 

[climberusa]

I see but is there anyway to have the list exclude the rest of the nav and only show the children, not even the current page?

[heatherfeuer]

Create a separate navigation template and call that particular menu template on the special "child" page template you make.

[cyberman]

not even the current page?

not sure what you mean ...

This is my menu manager call in template for parents

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

And (the other) template attached to children uses this call

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