By aliegeh on

When I click on The administration menu in navigation I get a list of menu links in the content area. How I can I achieve the same effect with my own menus. For example if I have a menu called "About AMF" that has sub-menus, I would like to get the sub-menus listed in a page just like drupal does with its navigation menu.

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jaypan
Location Victoria, BC
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go to admin->site building-> menu and select your menu. You can then drag the items around to wherever you want. If you want to make an item a submenu of another item, drag it under the parent item, and a little to the right so that it is indented.

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aliegeh commented

Thanks but that is not what I mean.

Let us say you have a menu

Test

Under Test you have
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3

When the user clicks on Test I would like Item 1, Item 2 and Item 3 to be displayed as a list with descriptive info on the content page.

Hop I made myself clear

Thanks

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my-family commented

I think that one of the possibilities is to use Menu Block module, which allows you to create a block with subterms in a menu, and then display the resulting block in some of the "content" regions. When you start with the "secondary" level (see administration of the Menu Block), the block would be displayed only on relevant pages (when clicking on the parent link).

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aliegeh commented

Thanks for the reply. Actually I am trying to mimic the drupal navigation menu which shows on the left-side bar and the content area at the same time. You can display block menu in the content area as you suggested but my purpose again is to get the drupal navigation menu structure.

Thanks

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my-family commented

Actually I am trying to mimic the drupal navigation menu which shows on the left-side bar and the content area at the same time. I still think that you can do it with Menu Block module (probably except of the main Administration page)

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aliegeh commented

Thanks. Can you give me an example. Is there any documentation for achieving that.

Regards

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archeryrob commented

Do you mean like this?
My site

I created menu items in the menu section of admin and attached books to those menu items.

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my-family commented

My idea was: add menu block > Menu: Test; Item: root of Test, Starting level: 2nd level (secondary), and maybe "Make the starting level follow the active menu item".... and display this new block in one of the "content" regions.

However, the solution of archeryrob (using the Book module) is probably better, because you can add description according to your needs easily.

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archeryrob commented

Does any one know if you can get the books links in the various menus to open and expand like the book menus does? i set them as expandable, but they only do it in the book menu, which I would like to get ride of to make more space for other items

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archeryrob commented

This module along with the JQuery menu modules will expand the book trees in your new ABB blocks you can make and assign to a column or content area.

It does have some theme related issues and wil not work with all themes. I was using Pixture Reloaded and it destroyed the books in the trees and took them out or added all books everytime something was edited. I had to go back to just Pixture to stop having problems.