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Need a Menu showing, by me, selected pages

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:47 am
by resistem
I've searched this forum and other places for the last hour now without finding what I'm looking for. If there still is a topic that touch this subject that I've missed, please excuse and point me in the right direction.

Anyway, what I need help with is a Menu that shows and updates itself when I add related pages.

I have used the

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{menu template='real_simple' start_element='3.1' show_all='1'}
for one part of the site and that works great, but the thing is I also need something more advanced. I'll try to explain:

Say I'm doing a site with record reviews. When I click in on one review - say Aerosmith "Rocks" CD - I would like to add a list at the end showing related reviews. So, my question is: can I add a menu that lists all pages with the alias starting with "aerosmith", and updates the list when a new Aerosmith review is added?

Or maybe I could ID the pages somehow and tell the menu to list all those with the same ID?

I hope this makes sense and someone can help. Thanks.

Re: Need a Menu showing, by me, selected pages

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:57 am
by Dr.CSS
You may have read the Menu Manager Help, there is a option call about prefixes and suffixes, this may be what you seek...

Re: Need a Menu showing, by me, selected pages

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:11 pm
by resistem
Alright, I didn't realize they could do the function I'm after but I'll check it out, thanks.

Re: Need a Menu showing, by me, selected pages

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:40 pm
by RonnyK
resistem,

Another would be to create all subpages under a given parent, pulling them as a next-level menu, and related to the parent that way....

Ronny

Re: Need a Menu showing, by me, selected pages

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:49 pm
by resistem
RonnyK: yes I know. But since I've already added hundreds of reviews each filed under year and format I'm kind of stuck. I could re-do it, but that takes a lot of time and also creates some other problems. But thanks for sharing you idea, always appreciated.

Re: Need a Menu showing, by me, selected pages

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:28 pm
by resistem
Is it maybe possible to place some sort of list with links to searchresults that I've chosen?

Like a module checking the CMS and displaying the links results including the term "aerosmith". Or something like that?