By JonathanGennick on

I'm trying to find a good explanation of primary and secondary links. What is their purpose? How do they differ from menus? Could someone suggest a site for me to look at, that uses these links, so I can get an idea of how to use them on my own site?

(If you do suggest a site, be sure to let me know which links on the site are which.)

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thomasb-1’s picture

thomasb-1 commented

Have a look in the top right corner of drupal.org :-)

Primary links: Support | Handbooks | Forum | Downloads | Contribute | Contact | Community

I guess you can say secondary links are children of primary links.

However, I have a little problem with secondary links. I can not figure out how to display secondary links of my "Home" link on the front page.

If somebody knows a solution to this problem, please help :-)
http://drupal.org/node/70837

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Best regards,
Thomas

drupalzack’s picture

drupalzack commented

To configure Secondry links

Home » administer » settings

and set the secondary links.

Hope that helped.

Thanks,

Zack.

thomasb-1’s picture

thomasb-1 commented

Thanks, but that is not the problem. I know about those settings.

These are my settings.

Menu containing primary links:
- Primary links

Menu containing secondary links:
- Primary links
If you select the same menu as primary links then secondary links will display the appropriate second level of your navigation hierarchy.

Have a look at the thread I am linking to in my previous post. Do you see the problem?

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Best regards,
Thomas

SparkyUK’s picture

SparkyUK commented

I'm not sure if this is what Jonathon was getting at, but I have trouble understanding why these links are different from any other menu. Why have they been assigned this special status?

drupalzack’s picture

drupalzack commented

I believe that's because, for each primary link there is a secondary link. Secondary links are a subset of primary links.

Menu's in general are independent.

JonathanGennick’s picture

JonathanGennick commented

Thanks everyone, for your comments. I had a suspicion that the links at the top right of Drupal.org were primary links, but I was uncertain. Now I know for sure, and the knowing for sure is actually very helpful.