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Hi All,

Since I am new to both the CMSMS and this forum let me start by saying I've only been using CMSMS for 3 months now and am already in love with it. Although not a programmer, I have been involved in web design (not development) for 6 years now so I have a certain understanding of HTML and CSS. Needless to say CMSMS has saved my life since most of the time I cannot afford to pay a developer for content management driven sites and have to rely on the help of friends.

I am using version 1.6.5 and have spent 3 days and 3 nights (well....half-nights ...a man has to sleep even for 5 hours ) googling and searching for this issue and trying various things but to no avail.

My issue is this:

I have a category home page called Products (content page) which are divided into 3 categories i.e. A Products, B Products, C Products. Each of these in turn have many children (children being content pages as well). However, the 3 categories (A,B and C) are not content pages and I do not want them to act as links even though I need them to appear on the menu hierarchy. So I made them into Section Headers.

Unfortunately though I need each children page to display at the top the title of its respective section header!

e.g. You are in A Products or You are in B Products

Since section headers are not treated as part of the hierarchy by the CMS I can only get the children page to display Products as a title which is the topmost category and not the immediate above.

Am I doing this the wrong way? As I said I am incapable of finding an answer myself through searching the net so any help will be extremely appreciated.

I thank you in advance.

Alex

[UPDATE]

Tried {breadcrumbs} and it does indeed treat the section header as part of the hierarchy displaying it properly.
Now it's a matter of removing the previous and current titles from the breadcrumb string output so from Products >> A Products >> Current Product make it so it just says A Products

Any ideas? Apologies if my questions appear trivial to the most experienced but to me they are mountains

Have you searched the forum for parent page title?..

Like...  http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 458.0.html

Thanks Dr.

I actually did search the forum and did indeed come across this post. Maybe my limited knowledge prevented me from seeing that it provided a solution to my problem. Will look into it further and update my original query appropriately.

Many thanks!

Well, I tried your tags but they return the title or alias of the topmost parent Products and not the Section Header: A Products which is the parent of the page.

I had figured out how to output the topmost parent by myself .

So unfortunately, my original question on how to output the menu name of the parent section header remains.

Actually the first one outputs the root parent alias, in your case products, the second one outputs the parent, in your case A products...

Absolutely right!

I must have done something wrong the first time i tried! Works like a charm!

Grateful and obliged!

Now in order to change it so that it displays the menu text instead of page alias would i change

$var = 'parent_page_alias';   to  $var = 'parent_menu_text';   in the UDT

and

{nextup assign="parent_page_alias"}{$parent_page_alias}   to   {nextup assign="parent_menu_text"}{$parent_menu_text}

in the template tag?

Please say it's as easy as that...

P.S. my graphic design skills are at your service any time

Look to the last one to see where menutext is placed/called...

I've already tried that on and it keeps returning the topmost parent as you can see:

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both

{menutext assign="parent_page_menutext"}{$parent_page_menutext} in template with $var = 'parent_page_menutext'; in UDT

and

{menutext assign="root_page_menutext"}{$root_page_menutext} in template with $var = 'root_page_menutext'; in UDT

return Industrial rather than Thermal Processing

OK...took me a while but I finally realised what you were trying to tell me!

I got your second tag and replaced alias with menutext everywhere and it now works perfectly!

Many thanks again and please send me a pm if you even need any graphic design work. I'm pretty good at that...