By phishyman2 on

OK, new to Drupal. I was fairly successful with Joomla, so I understand the concept and how CMS works. Here is the problem.

I want a user to come to my website and not have to log in and see the primary menu. No matter what changes I make, I can't get the primary menu to show up until I log in. Any ideas?

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shyamala commented

What are the links in the primary menu. If an anonymous user doesnot have permission to do the activities that your Primary links take you too. These links will not show up. If you can elaborate on the Links forming the primary menu, I can help.

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phishyman2 commented

OK, let me back up. I want to create an information/advertising website. I do not want any input or postings from visitors. The front page will have primary and secondary menus that will take them to other pages. There will also be a login on the front page so that I can go in and administer the page, unless there is a way to do that without having the login on the front page. That would be great. BTW, I am on my way to the bookstore to find a book.

Thanks for any help.

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phishyman2 commented

BUMP

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khetani commented

hi
I am a newbie and am setting up Drupal for the first time on my local machine. I am using the WAMP server. The primary links i have setup are Home, About-us, Contact us - and none of them appear unless i login into the site. Can somebody please help me with this.

thanks
Khetani

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silverpenhouse commented

Hello,

I have the same problem. Running version 6

I have set up some primary links which I see when signed in as "admin" but when I log out, I don't see anything in the sidebar.

Please explain which permissions i must change.

Thank You

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bobtm commented

...you need to tell us what the menu items link to - if its a content node then anonymous user should only need 'access content' permission.

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jsmart377 commented

I thought i had this fixed when i realized the menu I was trying to display had no active links. I made sure it liked to a real node (not Node/add) but that did not fix the problem. Any help would be appreciated!

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einsteinsboi commented

Check under theme configuration for your theme and make sure that the theme you're using enables the primary links to be viewed. Garland does by default but some menus are configured to override the global setting and may have that option toggled off.

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khetani commented

hi
Thanks for the quick advice but - Even Garland is not showing them to me - is there something to do with me running Drupal on local machine ? I have also given anonymous user "access content" permission under "node module" still it wont work. The nodes i have made are Home, About Us Contact Us but i havent created pages for them, i just added the nodes under primary links with the path as "node/add" - is that a problem ?

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einsteinsboi commented

Running Drupal on local machine should have no effect.

I've never added links that way. Your best bet is to create the pages (Create Content -> Page, even if you leave them blank, and then set their menu options to Primary links. For the contact us page you'll probably want to use the contact module.

See if that works.

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khetani commented

hi Einstein
thanks for your help - i just created a page and linked it to Home in primary links but still it wont work for me. I thought it maybe a computer issue but i tried everything installing drupal and wamp on another PC and still it came out to be the same. So there is something wrong i may be doing in setting things up - but i followed the guides and everything else seems to be working fine only this primary links part is screwy. please some help will be really appreciated.

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einsteinsboi commented

What do you mean when you say you "created a page and linked it to Home in primary links"?

Try this:

Administer -> Create Content -> Page

Then in the page, enter the following in the respective fields.

Title: About Us

{Click on Menu Settings and enter the following in the fields:
Menu Link Title: About Us
Parent Item: Primary Links (should be a list you can select)
Weight: 0

Body: Enter some text here just so you have something to view

{Click on Publishing Options and make sure "Published" is selected}

Then click save and see if the About Us link appears on your primary links (at the top if you're using Garland). Then log off and see if you can see the links.

Should work. Let me know.

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khetani commented

Thank u so much Einstein (u r true to your alias) :) -
what i was doing wrong was creating primary links and then while creating pages i was just linking that page under - Parent Item: to "Home", the primary link menu item i had created.
I did not realize that the created page itself can become a primary link in the Parent Item option.
Thanks so much for your help and patience.

cheers
khetani

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einsteinsboi commented

Glad it worked out for you!!

Good luck with your site!

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khetani commented

hi Einstein
guess what - i am stuck with the same issue with the contact form. I enabled it and did everything as the guide says - gave the permission to anonymous users to access the site wide contact module but it wont show up when i log out. I can see the other links like Home and About Us but Contact Us is missing.

thanks
khetani

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einsteinsboi commented

Did you add it to the primary links menu on the menu admin form? See http://codingpad.maryspad.com/2009/03/15/building-a-website-with-drupal-...

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khetani commented

Thanks, it worked. that site is really helpful. hope i m not troubling u a lot.

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einsteinsboi commented

And no, you're not troubling me, glad to help!