Taxonomies do not activate Menu Trails
Xabi - October 22, 2007 - 17:40
| Project: | Menu Trails |
| Version: | 5.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | critical |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | won't fix |
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Description
I have set several taxonomies to activate a secondary menu item with Menu Trails, but it does not work. When I go to the taxonomy page (I'm using Pathauto, so the URL is something like mysite.com/news/politics), there is no menu item activated, nor primary neither secundary menu.
#1
An example: In "Menu trails by category", I assign "politics" taxonomy to "politics" menu item (secondary menu). When I navigate to the "politics" taxonomy page, there is no menu item selected.
#2
From what I can tell, this module was never designed to do anything to the menu on taxonomy term listing pages. It does however check a node's terms when viewing it on /node/* and /comment/* pages and sets the menu location according to the settings.
I do agree that this is a feature that you'd expect this module to have. (I sure did, as well as others I have spoken to.) This would require a small rewrite to parts of the module however. (Have hook_nodeapi() look at arg() and see if the user is on a term listing page, and if so, set the menu location according to the settings.)
#3
I also need this feature, and have posted a comment on the developer's site.
#4
Has anybody found a solution for this yet?
#5
I am stuck on this too. Has anybody got a fix?
#6
Anybody? A lot of people seem to be stuck with this very same problem!
#7
From what I can tell, this module was never designed to do anything to the menu on taxonomy term listing pages.
That is correct. Menutrails affects ONLY direct node views (e.g. node/23) in terms of activating a menu trail. It has no effect on overview pages like views, taxonomies, etc.
However, if you manually add these links to your menu tree the trail will become active and you will get the UI benefit of an "active" menu trail.