[support] Porting from Static Menu to Taxonomy Question

Tod Thomas tod at madtoon.net
Thu Mar 2 01:47:39 UTC 2006


Ken Dow wrote:
> Hi Tod,
> 
> I create a specific vocabulary for the menu (e.g., "Navigation" or "On 
> this site") and then the top-level terms in that vocabulary become the 
> top-level menu items (e.g., "About", "News", "Downloads"). As you've 
> discovered, you cannot assign nodes to the vocabulary root, only to 
> terms. In case you haven't look at it, the taxonomy_menu module will 
> automatically build menus from specified vocabularies. It does, however, 
> leave you with a top level "Navigation" link that 
> 
> * Must be clicked before the user sees the category (term) links
> * Does not itself link to useful content, IMO (your choices are "Nothing 
> assigned" message or a listing of every item assigned to every term in 
> the vocabulary).
> 
> That said, it does automate the creation of a site menu system based on 
> one or more vocabularies.


That's exactly what I needed, thanks!  Is there a way to get around not 
being able to link anything to the vocabulary root?


Tod


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