Why is the Active menu reaction tied to the menu set as primary links? I can see lots of examples where you would want to set a menu item as active that is not in the primary links tree. Why not use the complete menu tree?

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markabur’s picture

markabur commented

yes, and if there's some technical limitation then the context UI shouldn't show the other menu items as available for activating.

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markabur commented

as a followup, i found a way to use the active-menu-item feature for an arbitrary menu. in MYTHEME_preprocess_page(), run the menu links array through context_menu_set_active():

$links = menu_navigation_links('menu-communities', 0);
$links = context_menu_set_active($links);
$vars['communities'] = theme('links', $links, array('class'=>'communties-menu'));

this sets class=active on both the anchor and the li.

vegardjo’s picture

vegardjo commented

+1 - This would (among other things) be very useful when building features with more levels of links!

steven jones’s picture

steven jones commented
Issue tags: +context-2.x-rc-blocker

Not sure if this is still the case. Should be an RC blocker if it is.

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steven jones commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Duplicate of #442882: Document the menu links issue