By RMurray1 on

Hi,

I'm developing a website which really requires a "fly out left" menu like which is provided in Nice Menus. This is a large website for an educational institution and we have quite a number of menu items. We have our main top level navigation at the top of the page which uses nice-menu to provide drop down functionality showing second level items.

When a user clicks onto an item from the top menu, they are taken to a content page. The content pages have a tertiary menu showing third level menu items at the right hand side, split from the top menu using menu block. We want to apply Nice Menu to this menu so that fourth level items fly out to the left. Is there anyway to achieve this? We currently have DHTML menu running which provides accordian style menu for here but this is far from ideal.

Thanks and look forward to your reply.

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anil614sagar’s picture

anil614sagar commented

Hi,

You can create multiple nice menus as blocks and you can enable them anywhere in the regions in the configured pages. Make sure this new nice menu block only shows your third level links as base level (Level 1) and fourth level menus links as second level.

Hope it will solve your issue :-)

Cheers,
Anil Sagar,
Lead Drupal Developer,
Azri Soulutions,
http://azrisolutions.com/

RMurray1’s picture

RMurray1 commented

When I look at configuring a nice menu block there is only the option to choose menu depth and parent. I know how to set up a menu block and choose starting depth, but this doesn't seem to let you apply a nice menu to it. The options for nice menu blocks are limited to menu depth and parent.

chakrapani’s picture

chakrapani commented

First you cannot use menu blocks and nice menus combined to get what you want. You can get the desired results by using only nice menus itself.
As explained by Anil above, you need to create multiple nice menu blocks one for every second level menu item and enable corresponding blocks based on the active second level item.
i.e If you have menu like below

A
  a
      x(can have children at fourth level)
      y(can have children at fourth level)
  b
      p(can have children at fourth level)
      q(can have children at fourth level)
  c
      r(..)
      s
B
  d
  e
  f
C
  g

In this case, you need to create a nice menu block each for a, b, c and so on.
block1 for a: [x, y] - displayed only in page with link a
block2 for b: [p, q]- displayed only in page with link b

Hope its clear..

Regards
Chakrapani

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jonahruh commented

I am trying to do the same thing. But when setting up a new nice menu, for menu parent it only gives you navigation, main menu, user menu and management for options. There was not way to select second level menu items. Is this setting elsewhere?
Thanks!