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Hello everyone,
i just installed the latest version of CMSMS and I'm in the process of integrating this template in to my install:
http://www.solucija.com/templates/demo/ ... _Services/

I'm getting along all right with it but I have a couple of questions:
1- I can't customize the top horizontal menu for some reason.
I used the {cms_module module="menu"} tag where the menu goes and it inserts the menu but with the huge Current page is 1: Home thing.I searched around the templates, the stylesheets etc, and could not find a way to fix this.

2-I'm making this site that will have a bunch of articles under different categories.What I want to do is make a link in the menu to Articles. The article page then will list all the categories and the articles that belong to each category. I dont know if there is some sort of article directory module , but I couldn't find any information about it.

Thanks for any help you can give me!

dillinger wrote: 1- I can't customize the top horizontal menu for some reason.
I used the {cms_module module="menu"} tag where the menu goes and it inserts the menu but with the huge Current page is 1: Home thing.I searched around the templates, the stylesheets etc, and could not find a way to fix this.

2-I'm making this site that will have a bunch of articles under different categories.What I want to do is make a link in the menu to Articles. The article page then will list all the categories and the articles that belong to each category. I dont know if there is some sort of article directory module , but I couldn't find any information about it.

1. the menus can be customized in the menu manager. see the wiki for more information. menu manager is under the 'layout' menu in the admin panel. also look at the menu manager help under 'extensions->modules' for syntax and available options.

what you'll do is "import" a "file template" to be a "database template", edit that 'copy' and reference it by name in your {menu} tag.

2. if each article is going to be a separate page in your site's hierarchy, the menu manager can handle an "index" of articles. or, look at the "improved sitemap" writeup in the wiki page linked above for another idea.

if you just use a generated menu, you can create a second menu template with the appropriate structure to be in a page's content block (vs in a 'sidebar' or 'header' area like your primary navigation menu) and then put a {menu} tag right in the article "index" page's content.

Thanks Kermit!
I fixed the menu problem.
The article directory thing is giving me  a hard time though. I tried creating it through the menu manager but it's not very intuitive and I cant get it to work.
I also saw the Cataloguer module but I'm not so sure if that will work here.
I'll let you know if I can do this using the improved sitemap.
Thanks again for your help.