[support] Porting from Static Menu to Taxonomy Question

[Tod Thomas]

Ken Dow wrote:
> You could modify the taxonomy_menu module to have the top level link 
> constructed so it points to something predictable location. For example, 
> the module could always link top level to "/vocabularyname" and you 
> could manually create a node at that path each vocabulary (using the 
> menu module). Not perfect, by workable.


What I ended up doing is making my welcome page the default page, made 
the first menu item under the navigation menu headerpoint to it, and 
then made it sticky.  That seemed to accomplish what I needed.


- Thanks



> On Mar 1, 2006, at 8:47 PM, Tod Thomas wrote:
> 
>> 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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