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mdb
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Aug 13, 2009, 1:06 AM

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I am updating my page and really want to have the category menu at the top if the page with a drop down menu for sub categories.

what I have done so far is create a drop down menu in my siteHeader.html using spry widgets (as I do not know much about javascript I thought this was the best way)

Now I have no way of working out how to get article manager driving these categories - I really would prefer not to have to hard code it all as I would prefer to have it done using the article manager system.

I have done a shell of the site here - what I basically need to work out is how to get the category menu currently sitting on the left fill the drop down menu at the top.

I have searched through the forums but cannot work out how to do this at all.

any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks


(This post was edited by margaretmh on Aug 21, 2009, 1:06 AM)


Donna
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Aug 18, 2009, 10:03 AM

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Re: [margaretmh] article manager and drop down menu [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Margaret!

Take a look at this tutorial that Chet wrote:

http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/gforum.cgi?post=55829#55829

It's for a slightly different style of menu, but it should be adaptable for the code that you're using instead. The hard part is getting the nesting <ul> tags in there, but Chet's tutorial shows you how to use the global order & category level to setup templateIf's to make that work.

Give that a try and let me know how it goes. :)

Donna

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mdb
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Aug 22, 2009, 3:57 PM

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Re: [Donna] article manager and drop down menu [In reply to] Can't Post
Thanks Donna

for the time being I have decided to hard code my horizontal navigational bar (until I can get my head around it) but in the meantime I am trying to get the side bars working so visitors can see where they are within the category.

I nearly have what I want

at the moment when you click on a category you get

CATEGORY NAME IN BOX
then listed below that you get
CATEGORY NAME
sub category
sub category
etc etc

see

http://www.nswtwu.org/industries/index.shtml

what I would like is

CATEGORY NAME (in box)
SUB CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
etc etc

Then when you click on the sub category I would like the CATEGORY NAME to stay in the yellow box with the sub cats listed

I guess like a minis site map but just for the category currently being visited (does that make sense?)

I am not sure whether I have to change the publish rule or the html file???

many thanks


ross
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Aug 24, 2009, 2:50 PM

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Re: [margaretmh] article manager and drop down menu [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi there.

We are definitely getting into a fairly complex menu system but I think it is still do-able. It might be something better suited for consulting though as working through it in the forums could take a while.

What kind of timeframe are you working on with this one? Of course, if we end up in consulting, "what sort of budget is there" would also be a question to ask.

Let me know if you are ok with working through it step by step on the forums or just email me through consulting@interactivetools.com and we can get consulting going.

Either way, we'll work with you every step of the way until it's done :).
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