Secondary links block doesn't display

I'm having exactly the same problem, using the Starterkit.

Set the secondary links source to primary links, which has been populated with a few items.
The primary links looks alright when I put the block to the left sidebar, but secondary links (which now should be populated by the primary links content) doesn't show up whatsoever.

The page.tpl.php doesn't show any secondary_links variable, so I'm assuming that's why the secondary_links block doesn't get rendered.

But where and how to tweak the page.tpl.php file, to make it render the secondary_links??

Also having same issue. Have tried setting above.
Am able to show/hide primary links in sidebar but not secondary links, no matter what the secondary links settings are, as far as I can see.

I'd like to make this change without modifying the code, so I can experiment with different themes.

cheers

I'm having the same problem but idlewilder your solution isn't even working for me, it doesn't seem to pick up region-sidebar-first.tpl.php for me at all, I've tried deleting the cache and everything. Seems weird that this block just doesn't work how it is supposed to.

I had a look at menu.inc - function menu_tree() and it seems that static $menu_output[secondary-links] is set but empty even though it shouldn't be. I don't really know what this means, but hopefully someone out there can help??

alynner

Having the same problem. I have place the 'Secondary Links' block in the fist sidebar region. When I set the source of secondary links to 'Primary Links', the children of primary links are displayed in the footer, but the secondary links block does not appear. When a menu item is added directly to secondary links, the block will appear with the added menu item, but not with the children of the primary as desired. This does not appear to be a Zen issue as the same thing happens with the default theme. Suggestions?

edit:
Seems to be similar problem here:
http://drupal.org/node/557982

This worked for me.
http://drupal.org/node/180786

You can try out the following steps to display the secondary links on the active primary links page :
1) Create the primary menus and secondary menus . And in the secondary menu, set the secondary links source to its corresponding primary menu link.
2) Add a new block and add the following code inside the body of the block

<?php
$menuItems = menu_tree_page_data('primary-links');

foreach($menuItems as $key => $m) {
     //check current active menu
  if ($m['link']['in_active_trail'] && $menuItems [$key]['below']) {
      $menu = menu_tree_output($menuItems [$key]['below']);
  } 
}

//print the menu
print $menu;
?>

3) Select the input filter of the body as PHP code.
3)And then Enable the block in any region u want.

Thanks

Thanks, Komal.savla. Your solution worked for me.

Hi,

So Can this issue be now marked as closed?

I don't think that breaking a core behavior (the ability to use the "secondary links" block as contextual navigation block following primary links structure) is "academic". Confirmed in 6.x-2.1

Thanks komal, i did it for Acquia marina, and it works !!!

komal rocks.. :)

closing this issue. this is not a theme related issue as it is a core functionality request. komal.savla did post a solution/workaround in # 8.

This solution works, thank you!

This solution works fine, thank you.....