To start, here is a screenshot of the intranet site I am building:
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh147/jmcfab/rimiintra_zpsf78bd7c6.jpg
On the right you can see the Navigation Sidebar, -System Links -Modalities -Other Links are the 3 menu's I have built. There are submenu's under each one, however Drupal will not expand them to show the submenu's built beneath.
Yes, there is an option to always show as expanded, but that is not what I want as it would make you have to scroll on the home page to see them all.
I am running the Danland Theme, with Superfish menu's at the top in the main menu section. I have already tried moving the navigation right side menu bar to the Superfish area and that did not fix it, it just added the content in the side bar to the end of the main menu.
Thanks for any suggestions on how to make this work. I just want it so you can either click the menu name, or the arrow, or even hover, and it expands to show the submenu's.
Figured this would be easy, and either it is and I am skipping something or it just isn't a built in feature with Drupal.
Thank you for any help in advance!
Comments
Nice Menus
Did you assign it a parent in the menu and check the box that said "Show as expanded" located in structure> menu>edit (the link).
Have you tried using the Nice Menu module?
Yes, they are parents, and
Yes, they are parents, and are categorized in the list in this fashion:
Parent Menu
-submenu1
-submenu2
-submenu3
etc
Show as expanded is not what I want, as they show them as expanded all the time. When you open up the browser and go to the page I am building (will eventually be the homepage on all corporate machines), that menu on the right needs to be un-expanded until someone hovers over it, or clicks on the parent item.
Show expanded looks like the example above. I want it to just show:
Parent Menu
Once clicked or hovered over, then you see the
Parent Menu
-submenu1
-submenu2
-submenu3
I have not tried NiceMenu's yet, wanted to see if there is a solution without an addition module first as NiceMenu's may end up breaking superfish which is already running and doing it's job quite well.
You want them to fly-out,
You want them to fly-out, right? What module are you using for the menu? If you don't have one or don't want one then you'll have to write some css to hide the list items and appear on hover. Plus you'll have to check that box to expand them, but hide them using css or javascript. It's just easier to use a module.Some nice modules for it are nice menus and menu block. Good Luck
I have Superfish already
I have Superfish already (it's part of the Danland theme, a few steps are involved to enable it). I have it in the main menu up top and it works wonderfully.
The main step involved in enabling it is under blocks, moving the main menu to the Superfish area.
I thought I could do the same with the sidebar navigation menu, however all that did is take my 3 menu items and try to squeeze them next to "TGIF" (my last item in the main menu list) and rip them out of the sidebar...as you can tell that is not what we want lol
My only worry about trying an additional menu module like Nice Menu's is that it may break Superfish since I don't know if you would realistically have two menu mods installed at the same time on one site?
Couldn't find any resources on if they play nice together
Nice menu's did the trick.
Nice menu's did the trick. Made a full backup beforehand incase it broke any Superfish addon's already built into the Danland theme but so far so good!