[support] Menus

[Pherowze]

Thank you,
It works like a charm...

On 6/15/06, Metzler, David <metzlerd at evergreen.edu> wrote:
>
>  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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>
> Pherowze
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Pherowze
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