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{solved} Hi - I need some expert help with organising and displaying a menu structure please.

Okay so website (not live) is http://pearsaa2.memset.net/~johnson/

I need to display a 'selection' of the second level pages that can be seen in the left navigation on the Services for You and Business Services pages. They need to be visible on the other main pages eg Home, About, Careers, Our People, Contact in the left navigtaion area with same styling.

The client needs to be able to change these pages so I can't hard code them in. And I can't use the show number of levels start level options as the pages I want to display are not sub pages of that page.

I hope I have explained it clearly enough! Some help would be most appreciated as I am tying myself in knots!

Many thanks

Glad you figured it out, posting your solution may help others...

Okay - sure. The solution was actually down to the organisation of pages in the overall structure more than messing about with the menu template. And I must claim solved by a colleague rather than me!

I pulled the 2 parent pages out of the main horizontal menu as 'pages' with content and turned them into 'section header's. So they dropped down a level in the hierarchy. Then I asked the template to show_root_siblings but then to exclude_prefix and then the pages I didn't want to be seen I added that prefix to the page-alias. Eg exclude_prefix="page" then call page page_example-one.

Did the trick!