Hello all,

Thanks for the great module it's really awesome but i have two issues that bugs me :-)

First one is that if i enter a menu title (different then the category title) it doesn't submit the changes, if i click submit then when i check back it's still using the title of the category.

And somehow anonymous visitors can't have access to the pages i made with the category module, the rest is accessable but not the categories.

Anyone knows how to solve this? It would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Victor

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Congrats commented

Anyone have an idea?

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forpost commented

"Check to delete this menu item." is also broken.

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bdragon commented

Category_menu overrides the menu_otf system in core.

It's a longstanding issue. Menu runs after category_menu, so category_menu can't just hide the menu_otf form.

In any case, a workaround is to make the changes in admin/build/menu instead of on the menu_otf section of the node edit form. It will still get reset every time the node is edited, unfortunately.

If at all possible, I would avoid using category_menu. It is very buggy at the moment.

At the moment, you can turn it off per container, but you can't turn it off per-category. :-/

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jfxberns commented

I have a problem with this too.

Sadly, I am forced to re-edit the Menu frequently as the containers are updated frequently.

Sigh. It would be great if this worked; it's an awesome feature.

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Congrats commented

Thanks for commenting on this Bdragon.

I hope the bugs gets fixed in the near future. But maybe i don't need it anymore then.

It's not too good to be depended on modules.

Thanks anyway

Victor

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JirkaRybka commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

I would say - let's close this issue now. 5.x is nearing the end of its lifespan, and is barely even maintained at this moment.

The problem with category_menu vs. menu settings OTF is fixed on 6.x by a new "Menu Wrapper" (although I have doubts about the approach taken, and I'm going to further investigate at #457688: Get rid of Menu wrapper, moving functionality to category_menu).

The interference between category_menu and menu administration screen is pretty much "by design", AFAICT. The whole point of category_menu is, that it maintains the links for you, so you shouldn't need to make changes to the links yourself - then, there'll be two of you doing changes to these links (you, and category_menu), overwriting each other's changes, naturally.

The real problem there is, IMO, the confusion about how these links should work. They are actually a special kind of links, that should only be changed through changing the node, so that it's all kept in sync. Otherwise it won't make any sense to have these links automatically maintained. But since this doesn't show on the menu administration screen in any way, and the editing options aren't disabled there, people don't see this point, quite understandably.

I'm trying to fix this confusion for 6.x, at #481280: Generated menu items vs. menu administration and weights. So I'm closing this one in favor of that, apart from other reasons (including nearly 2 years of silence here).