By Adrenaxus on

Hey everyone,

I've recently discovered Drupal - it's indeed a very good and rather different and complex CMS.

However, I'm trying to migrate the website http://www.bergland.it (PHPWcms) to Drupal. Now since I've been struggling with the Drupal menu system for a while now, i was wondering if you have some advice on how to adopt the same menu-system (a multi-level, expanding menu) in Drupal.

Do I have to use a Module to achieve that, or is there a built-in way to do it? Also, what is the standard-way of creating a menu with content? Am I going to create the content first, and then "providing a menu link" for it? Or am I rather going to create the menu first, and then fill it with content?

Thank you for your help.

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Carolyn commented

You can't create a menu link unless it's pointing to real content. The easiest way to do this is to create a piece of content (add content > basic page, for example, and under menu settings, click "provide a link", and set a menu link title.

If you add items to the main menu, and place a main menu block in the sidebar, it will have expanding items. If your needs are more complex, try the Menu Block module.

Adrenaxus’s picture

Adrenaxus commented

Thank you for your reply, Carolyn. It didn't seem obvious to me that you cant create a menu link unless you already have the content it is pointing to. I will also try the module you suggested. Thanks.

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Carolyn commented

I agree it's not obvious. Not sure of the best solution for that.