By dreftymac on

Suppose you have the following custom menu:

        Rich People
            Donald Trump
            Bill Gates
            Richie Rich
        Famous People
            Mother Theresa
            Ghandi
            Bill Gates
                William Gates Senior

PROBLEM: if you click on "Famous People/Bill Gates" and you have menu headers
collapsed by default, Drupal may try to collapse "Famous People/Bill Gates" and
un-collapse "Rich People/Bill Gates" instead. Apparently Drupal does not keep
track of which menu path you chose to reach a page, and just uncollapses the
first available menu path that has your chosen page as a child item.

This is a problem because what if you are trying to reach William Gates Senior?

The user will never be able to reach this item because clicking on Bill Gates will
always un-collapse "Rich People/Bill Gates".

QUESTION: what method is there to have multiple menu links that point to the same node,
while still preserving the correct "menu collapse" state based on the specific menu path
that the user chose in order to navigate to the node?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

traviss359’s picture

traviss359 commented

I am looking for a solution to this exact problem. If I come across something, I will try to remember to share it here.

NickAT’s picture

NickAT commented

The closest thing my searches turned up were this thread http://drupal.org/node/236053 and this module http://drupal.org/project/multiple_node_menu. I am going to try out the module but being only a dev version I am a bit skeptical. Hope this helps!

*Update: This module does not fix this issue, however it does make it easier to manipulate the multiple menus from an edit page. Using this module displays the menu based on weight, unfortunately not according to which link is clicked.