By ms1 on

Hi

I have been trying to configure the menu of my site, but some problems have bothered me lately.

My structure of menu is

 A
   --A1
   --A2
     --A2a
     --A2b
   --A3
 B
 C
   --C1
   --C2

Now I want my menus to be displayed in the following manner:

1. I want the menu to always display only parent menu-items i.e. A,B,C (not showing the sub-categories, which is the default case in drupal)

2. Only when 'A' is clicked it should show menu-items A1, A2 (without its parent i.e. 'A' or its sub-categories i.e. A2a, A2b).

3. And when A2 is clicked it only lists menu items A2a, A2b.

I got somewhat close using SlicedMenu. But the problem is that if the menu-item does not have sub items, the block won't be displayed. Hence I am unable to move to the lowest child of the menu (as it is not visible).

I also tried the module Menu Trim, but somehow it was not working. Well this too has the same issue as 'SliceMenu'.

Please suggest me a solution to this problem. I do not know if I am on the right track with these two modules, or there is something additional that I need to look into.

Thank You

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zeta ζ commented

The problem seems to be that you can’t display A2a, A2b.

Can you post the paths of the menu items that don’t expand, and their children?

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ms1 commented

Drupal does not trim the parent menu-item ones the sub-category is clicked. For ex:

Consider the 'administer' menu-item. When clicked it comes as

Administer

    Content Management
    Site Building
    Site Configuration
    User Management
    Logs
    Help

Rather I would appreciate that the menu would become only the sub-categories (i.e. without any parent menu-item or its siblings) once 'administer' was clicked.

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As you said my problem is that I cannot display the A2a and A2b, as well as A1,A3,C1,C2 because they are without sub-items. This is because the SlicedMenu module has this limitation.

As for the actual paths of my required menu are as follows

Parent --> /drupal-5/taxonomy/term/27+28+29+30+31+32
           Children --> /drupal-5/taxonomy/term/27
                            /drupal-5/taxonomy/term/28
                            /drupal-5/taxonomy/term/29
                            /drupal-5/taxonomy/term/30
                            /drupal-5/taxonomy/term/31
                            //drupal-5/taxonomy/term/32

Parent --> /drupal-5/ed-classified
            Children --> /drupal-5/taxonomy/term/44
                             /drupal-5/taxonomy/term/45
                             /drupal-5/taxonomy/term/46

Parent --> /drupal-5/forum

Parent --> /drupal-5/image

So in both cases the children won't display. And I have no means to reach them through the menu if I implement the 'SlicedMenu' module.
(Sorry but if you were asking for url paths of the menu, then I don't have any, because this is on local)

Thanks & Regards

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nancydru
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commented

Perhaps you can use these handbook pages for inspiration (perhaps using "display: none;")
Showing which Menu item you're on and Highlight the expandable section of a menu

Nancy W.
Drupal Cookbook (for New Drupallers)
Adding Hidden Design or How To notes in your database

NancyDru

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ms1 commented

Thank you Nancy for the help. I hope this documentation will be helpful to me.

But as I believe this will take some time. Their is an immediate problem that has bothered me, that is when I do not keep my parent-item as 'expanded', it does not show the child-items once the parent is clicked. Is there something that I need to do to accomplish this?

Thanks & Regards

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ms1 commented

I found a solution to this issue at http://drupal.org/node/66152#comment-238535, i.e. using relative paths in custom menu.
But the problem still comes if I try to include 'forums' and 'image galleries' as menu-items for my customized menu. When I try to create sub-items for 'forum' and 'image galleries', I do not see the expanded menu when they are clicked.

Thanks & Regards

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zeta ζ commented

I think that paths are what makes the expanding work properly.

If you change the paths to something like this;-

  • Parent_1 » /drupal-5/parent_1
    • Child_1 » /drupal-5/parent_1/child_1
    • Child_2 » /drupal-5/parent_1/child_2
    • Child_3 » /drupal-5/parent_1/child_3
  • Parent_2 » /drupal-5/parent_2
    • Child_1 » /drupal-5/parent_2/child_1
    • Child_2 » /drupal-5/parent_2/child_2

the expanding should work.

If changing the paths would mean they cease to point to what is intended, you can setup path aliases (eg. parent_1 » taxonomy/term/27+28+29+30+31+32) with core module Path, (I think).

This should solve the part of the problem that SlicedMenu Doesn’t – hopefully the two will work together.

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ms1 commented

Hi Zeta

I got the the sliced menu working. The problem was not with sliced menu module but generally with the custom menus, i.e. no children were seen if not forcibly expanded. I found the solution at http://drupal.org/node/66152#comment-238535.

But the problem still comes if I try to include 'forums' and 'image galleries' as menu-items for my customized menu. When I try to create sub-items for 'forum' and 'image galleries', I do not see the expanded menu when they are clicked.

I also read that another cause of this issue could be different items pointing to the same node. But I disabled 'image galleries' and 'forums' from 'navigation-menu' and tried. But no use. Is it that I need to completely delete these links from 'navigation-menu'? (if so, how, as there is no delete link for these items in Navigation-Menu ?)

Thanks & Regards

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dynv commented

Use Menu Restricter and have the dept to 1 in the settings.