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[solved] Separate navigations
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:05 am
by SusanN
I just learned that by using this menu tag {menu items=""} it allows you to have separate navigations.
My website will have 3 basic navigations. e cba bbe rt.com/cms They are the top, main dropdown, and footer navigations. My question is this....is it acceptable to only use {menu items=""} to declare the top and footer navigation pages and then hope the rest of the pages will just naturally go to the main dropdown? Because the main dropdown will easily have 300+ pages. I can't imagine typing in allll those page names for the main dropdown.
Re: Separate navigations
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:39 am
by cyberman
Hi Susan,
items param is only good for a small amount of entries. A better solution would be this:
Create the following content structure
1. top (content type = section header)
1.1 subpage (content type = content)
1.2 subpage (content type = content)
...
2. main dropdown (content type = section header)
2.1 subpage (content type = content)
2.2 subpage (content type = content)
...
3. footer (content type = section header)
3.1 subpage (content type = content)
3.2 subpage (content type = content)
...
Then you can call every menu tree separately with
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{menu start_level='2' start_element='1.1' show_root_siblings='1'}
{menu start_level='2' start_element='2.1' show_root_siblings='1'}
{menu start_level='2' start_element='3.1' show_root_siblings='1'}
Re: Separate navigations
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:17 pm
by SusanN
Thanks for your reply. I am unfamiliar with using the section header feature... It looks to me like when you create a section header, it becomes only a link in the navigation and not a full page. Am I correct? Because that won't work. I need the full page to be on the top level. I don't want the top level links to just lead to more navigation. Does that make sense?
Re: Separate navigations
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 3:12 pm
by cyberman
With {menu start_level='2'} your menu shouldn't begin with section header - it's only for a better overview.
Btw. yes - a Section Header is not a full page ...
Re: Separate navigations
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:59 pm
by SusanN
Okay, thanks for your help!
Re: Separate navigations
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:12 pm
by Pierre M.
@SusanN : please put [solved] in the title of your first post.