By bwm71 on

I just inherited a site built with Drupal and really starting to like what Drupal can do. One thing I just can't figure out at this point is how do I make a menu/block nice. Currently on the left side bar I have several blocks that have nice menus and if I go to Site building->blocks->list I see these listed as "block_name (Nice Menu)" under the Left Sidebar section.

I've been able to add new blocks, but can't figure out how to make them nice menus. Maybe I'm thinking about this the wrong way, but I just don't see an option to enable this feature anywhere.

Any help is appreciated.

Brandon

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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vm commented

menus must be created in administer -> menus
when you create a new menu, the menu.module automagically creates a new block with those menu items.
Nice menus will the work with those blocks.

you can't arbitrarily create a block and expect nice menus to work on it.

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bwm71 commented

OK. Let me play around with this some. Thanks.

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bwm71 commented

OK. I created a new menu under Site building->Menus->Add menu and added an item under that menu. I see the menu in the list of blocks but see no way to make it nice. For the existing menus that are nice, when I click on the configure link on the blocks page I get Block Title, Menu Name, Source Menu Tree, and Menu Style fields under the Block specific settings section. I don't see these fields for the menu item I just created. I only see Block Title.

Clearly, I'm missing something on how to turn on the nice menu feature for a new menu item/block. I initially thought it might be because I only have one item under this menu, but one of the existing menus is nice and only has one item.

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bwm71 commented

Figured it out. By configure the Nice Menu module and increasing the number of Nice Menus, it added a "Nice Menu 6 (Nice Menu)" in the disabled blocks section. I can then renamed, etc. this block.