By mik_cal on

Having screwed up my Drupal install for the first time by installing a module without doing research, I wanted to ask what the compatibility and functionality of these different modules are. The descriptions of these modules just don't tell me much.

I want to be able to have collapsible menus. I have DHTML Menu installed and it works pretty well though the icon displaying that a menu has collapsed contents is a little small.

I want to also create collapsible text treeviews on some webpages that may contain some links. I installed jquery treeview module but it froze up my site. It isn't clear to me whether this is a helper application for the jquery application itself (it seems to contain a similar file structure) and if I need to install jquery, there is no clear install instructions for drupal for that application on their site.

In any case, the Super Nav module was suggested to me by one site user here and in addition I've been looking up other modules on the modules page. As usual the descriptions of most of them seem pretty opaque to me but the fieldset module seems to be one that might be useful.

Are their conflicts between these modules and DHTML Menu?

In any case, advice about modules, their stability and functionality would be much appreciated.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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add1sun commented

I'm not familiar with those modules so I'm no help to you there but Drupal comes with jQuery in core so there is no "installing" it. If the module you are using requires a particular version of jQuery and you are Drupal 5.x, then there is a jQuery update module which will make the core Drupal jQuery library a higher version. If that is need though, it should be indicated on the module page or README file (or even better, that module would be a dependency so you couldn't install without it.)

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mik_cal’s picture

mik_cal commented

Thanks for the heads up. I've updated and Jquery treeview seems to at least not break my site.

Alexandre_portugal’s picture

Alexandre_portugal commented

I´ve downloaded jstools module and it can collapses menus. It does wath I was looking for.

chrisshattuck’s picture

chrisshattuck commented

When building Super Nav, I briefly installed and reviewed other administrative / menu tools, and posted some info at the bottom of the Super Nav project page.

DTHML Menu is great for in-theme menu usability. I developed Super Nav as a different kind of tool to handle quick administrative navigation outside of the theme. Super Nav and the other administrative menu tools appear to co-exist fine.

One thing is that Super Nav is currently under development and testing. It is pretty stable, but I haven't made an official release yet.

Good luck!
Chris

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