It would be great if support could be added to have a node display its parent menu. For example, I have a menu with News and Events. Each is a content type and I have a view setup for each page. The siblingmenu does the job on the list pages. However, when I go into viewing a specific News or Event item, the menu loses context and I cannot navigate back to other news or event items without going to the top menu first.

Thanks!

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bengtan commented

Hi,

Hmm . . . submenutree wasn't designed with parent menus in mind. There are other mechanisms for achieving what you've described (ie. menu blocks, taxonomy, book etc.), and they probably do a better job of it than submenutree would.

If you have a menu you want displayed all the time, have you looked at the usual other mechanisms?

Or if I have somewhat misunderstood your request or your objective, please elaborate further.

Thank you.

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bengtan commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

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rlnorthcutt
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For those who come later, I had a similar issue. We have a content heavy site with a massive main menu and multiple levels. We are using this module to help navigate on almost all pages.

We have a problem showing this for items NOT on the menu. Example - we have a view to show the blog posts, and that view is in the main menu... so submenutree block shows fine. For the actual blog posts (which are not in the menu), this blog disappears.

I ended up using the context module to set the active menu item/breadcrumb for those pages. I had to patch it here, but it works:
https://drupal.org/node/586396#comment-7064362

Note that this is in D7, but the thread above has some code (on the theme level) which should allow context to set the active menu for D6 as well. Once that is done properly, then submenu tree will show up!