By Peccata on

Obviously it is a design problem...

The only thing I need is a "current" or "active" status for a primary link until watching child notes of this parent link. But I can't bring it to light how does it work.

This is the structure I am looking for:

  • Products(primary link)This link should be active but it isn't
    1. First Product(secondary link)
    2. Second Product(secondary link)"This one is current"

I tried the taxonomy module but it couldn't fix that problem. It is not helping me out, if a secondary link just point as the same link as the primary one like taxonomy/term/4. What I need is a global category link like Products and every other page, story or link as a child of Products should be watched until Products is still active

Could someone help me out here?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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technivant’s picture

technivant commented

On D5, try the Menu Trails module: http://drupal.org/project/menutrails.

I usually set up a "menutrail" taxonomy (category) and assign each page the appropriate term ('products', 'about', 'contact, etc). Then configure Menu Trails to assign the active status by taxonomy.

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Peccata commented

I tried it out and it is working well. Thank you very much for your help.

mzafer’s picture

mzafer commented

I am using menutrails, but is not working as expected. I am using Zen theme. This is what I have done.

After installing menutrials, in the settings/menutrails page, I have set the below values

Menu trails for category : Category_1
Parent item for for Sub_Cat_1: Category_1
Parent item for for Sub_Cat_2: Category_1

The only difference I notice is that when I am in a story, the secondary menus are being displayed now. Earlier it was not being displayed.

Can you please let me know more detail, on what settings have you done to get it working.

Thanks
Zafer

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Peccata commented

After 30 hours of trying to fix the problems with the hierarchy I now found "silverstripe". It is more intuitive, more flexible and has "active"/"current" Menu structure by default! So I say good bye to drupal.

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darumaki commented

silverstripe looks interesting and simple, just what the world needs another CMS, there's too many as it is and none of them are really any more or less functional than the other. I think wordpress is #1 in terms of simple cms, drupal has potential to be #1 but you have to be a drupal scientist to figure things out leaving wordpress to take the lead for the masses. I'd give node to joomla but it's way out in left field and too much of a bug hog. Modx if it ever becomes more user-friendly I would say should top anything existing but unfortunately it too is for adv users. What the world needs is a realy good cms solution just one that's really good and anyone can use it.