2nd level menu

subscribing,
and when i look at http://www.cgcginc.com/, i don't understand how they could to do this menu with om maximenu and views_slideshow !?

Best regards

Yes, this menu is just one level and the submenus are actually attached blocks, you can attach other menus as submenus, this way you can make columns of menu blocks, which shows like megamenu, as shown in one of the screenshots on the project page. You can check also http://drupal.org/project/megamenu for this functionality you're looking for.

I used the raw codes in http://www.cgcginc.com/, now I made it standardized and added improvements on OM Maximenu, I also noted on the project page that in order for the slideshow menu to work, you have to output this OM Maximenu as a block, not float and not main menu. Then put this OM Maximenu block on the navigation region, as what I did in http://www.cgcginc.com/

The trick in http://www.cgcginc.com/ is that I made the pagers act as menu items and the slideshow is configured to change on hovering to these pagers.

I'll be showing more samples soon.

Thanks,
daniel

What about the ability to put a maximenu in a maximenu?

Hi,

I intentionally disabled putting maximenu inside another maximenu in the ui to save me from trouble of doubling ids, and css pointing to parent and children at the same time in general use.

But you can still try it by using advanced editing ui, and just put the right module and delta on the attached blocks.

daniel

Tried that, I must've not set it right though.

I see I can very easily enable that by editing om_maximenu_blocks_get in om_maximenu.blocks.inc. But I see what you mean in that it's important not to have mulitples of the same ID.

Maybe using a static variable and dynamically modifying the ids as they are output?

Sample calling another om maximenu:

'content' => array(
  'om_maximenu___om-maximenu-2' => array(
    'title' => 'My Menu 2',
    'title_path' => '',
    'title_path_query' => '',
    'title_path_fragment' => '',
    'module' => 'om_maximenu',
    'delta' => 'om-maximenu-2',
    'weight' => 0,
  ),
),

Another difficulty is that the effects are targeting the IDs, I am not really sure right now how it's going to affect everything or if it's compatible with all the jqueries I added already, it may take some time to check them all. But everybody is welcome to do the above sample and make experiments.

Hello, my English is not very good ...

It is not possible, then, create a structure like this:
Menu 1
submenu 1
Sub-Submenu 1
Menu 2
(...)

That is, a 3-level menu.
Thanks

I would love to see how this (http://www.cgcginc.com/) was done.

Unfortunately, I'm not creative enough nor technical enough to figure this out on my own. Seeing how it was done would be extremely helpful.

Thanks.

I agree I love the slideshow menu used on http://www.cgcginc.com/ and would love to see a tutorial on it. I'm not sure but would this be possible in D6?

http://www.cgcginc.com/ is D6

It's really simple to do:
1) just create a views slideshow style output block using views.
2) attach that block to om maximenu link
3) om maximenu Output: block, or others but you have to add some codes as stated on the Project page.
4) the real challenge there is the custom css, which is styling the slideshow, those links on the side of the slideshow is actually just title field pagers positioned vertically on the left side.

Note: on views slideshow with horizontal scroll effect, you have to add the height of the immediate div container of views-row for it to appear.

Are all the menus using the same view? Or do they all have separate views?
I'm trying to get a taxonomy based OM Maximenu to 'share' the same view but have the content change based on which menu link is hovered over/open.

Daniel, I think what you've done with the menu on http://www.cgcginc.com/ is brilliant! I think this module has enormous potential, but at this stage the documentation makes it difficult to achieve what you have done.

I am wondering if there is one view for the menu, or one view for each of the top level items (About Us, Expertise, etc).

Is it possible to get OM Maximenu to send the view a parameter? That's the only way I can see that you could make one view and have it all work.

If you can point me in the right direction, I will write a tutorial/documentation so others can benefit too.

Hi,

There's actually just 1 level of menus, the top one, like you mentioned... About Us...etc.

and the views are attached to these menu links, what you're seeing as submenus are actually views slideshow with text pagers just positioned to the left and the main slideshow content is positioned to the right.

Daniel

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I was asking how many different views are in use. Can you pass parameters to views?

If I have a site setup like this:

Level 1 - Home
-Submenu1 item
-Submenu2 item
Level 1 - About Us
-Submenu3 item
-Submenu4 item

The level 1 menu would be its own block. But for the submenus how would the view be created?

Would each submenu items have it's own view: for instance, Submenu 1 item would have its own block view slideshow) and Submenu 2 would have its own block view slideshow? Both blocks would then be attached to Level 1 -Home.
OR
Would each Submenu Group have its own view: for instance Submenu 1 and 2 would have its own block view slideshow and Submenus 3 and 4 would have its own block view slideshow? Then one block would be attached to Level 1 - Home that listed Submenu 1 and 2 in it.

ive been searching an internet for e-z step by step tutorial about this maximenu..can you provide me a link to documentation or sumthing like that?ive been configuring this maximenus for 2 weeks and still didnt works...

*help.....

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