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Hi guys,

I am building a website using CMSMS and I am looking at modifying how my top and left navigations function. I am currently working off a test environment on my own PC and not a live site. I am going to have a top navigation which includes

1. Home
2. About Us
3. Directions
4. Contact Us

On the revised left nav, I want to have the following

5.  Teams
6.  Social Events
7.  History
8.  Results

So far I have been able to create seperate top and left navigations.

If I use the following code

{menu template='simple_navigation.tpl' items='teams,social,...............,results'}

I can get the left navigation to show elements 5 - 8.

However this curtails the ability to add pages at a later stage i.e. gallery without actually having to go back in each time and add the page alias to the code above. I want to be able to have a start element and list all other elements underneath it. So if I use

{menu template='simple_navigation.tpl' start_element='5' show_root_siblings='1'}

Currently it lists all the active pages on the site i.e. elements (1-4). I have attempted this in my test environment but is this correct?

From the documentation I read the start_element should only show that element and it's children only. So even if I got this working, it won't show elements 6 - 8. Therefore will I have to edit the items code each time I add a new page to the left nav? Is there a way to start a navigation at a particular point and list every page underneath that point regardless of whether they are children or not of that initial start element?

Thanks
Aidan

Change page structure to

1. Top menu (maybe as section header)
1.1. Home
1.2. About Us
1.3. Directions
1.4. Contact Us

and call it with
and

2. Left menu
2.1.  Teams
2.2.  Social Events
2.3.  History
2.4.  Results

with

Hi Cyberman,

Thanks for the tip, I will try that now.

Regards,

Aidan