[support] Menus

[Metzler, David]

Yep this works.  I've done similar things to make blocks appear on
specific pages.  You don't technically need path_auto to accomplish
this.  If you use the path module, you can manually set up each page
with a path (e.g. news/todaysnews). What pathauto does for you is to
automatically set the "path" alias names based on content type and/or
taxonomy term plus the page title. You can always override a particular
page by specifically setting its path, provided you have the path module
enabled. 
 
Menu sections can easily be reorganized into different blocks by
following the basic steps.

1.	
	Make sure menu module is enabled and add a menu item. 
2.	
	Make sure you have administer menu priviledges.
3.	
	Make a new menu block using "Add a Menu" under Administer->Menus
4.	
	Move or add a menu item to your new menu by changing its "Parent
Item" to the newly created menu. 
5.	
	Now go to Administer->Blocks to control the placement of your
newly created menu block in the normal way, as well as which paths it
might appear on. 

Dave

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From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Pherowze
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 6:43 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Menus


Path auto?....Let me find out what it is and how to use it... Kobus, I
was unable to separate the menus using block admin pages... 

Thanks.


On 6/15/06, Greg Knaddison - GVS <Greg at growingventuresolutions.com>
wrote: 

	On 6/15/06, Kobus Myburgh <ITBJDM at puknet.puk.ac.za> wrote:
	> > ...I have the main header with the primary links
	> > which never changes regardless of the section... on the
menubar on 
	> the left
	> > or right of the page I will have a submenu which will change
whenever
	> I go
	> > to a different section......
	> >
	> > Can this be achieved using drupal...? If so how....? 
	>
	> You can use a custom block with php if-then conditions or
switches. Not
	> sure if there is an easier way.
	>
	> If you don't know how to code, it is perhaps better to make
separate
	> blocks with the menu links in them and only set their
visibility in 
	> block admin pages, otherwise you can make one block with
different PHP
	> conditions to display the links as they should be per page.
	>
	
	If you use pathauto to create your paths for you then you could
set up 
	a system that splits your "different sections" into different
URLs on
	the site such as:
	
	forum/
	blog/
	news/
	
	And then create blocks appropriate for those sections and in the
block
	visibility settings set the blocks to only show on forum/* pages
or 
	blog/* pages as appropriate.
	
	With pathauto it's possible to separate by either node type (as
shown
	above) or by the lowest weighted taxonomy term in the lowest
weighted
	taxonomy.
	
	Regards,
	Greg
	
	
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Warmest Regards,

Pherowze 
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