[support] Newbie: The case of the vanishing menu

[Victor Kane]

I think we need to get a few concepts straight.

A content-type is not content (i.e. node/123, a story), but rather a
form, it defines a reusable set of fields, like a page or a story,
which can be used to create content.

Let's suppose you create three pages by going to Administer > Add
content > page three times, and you create three distinct pages,
perhaps suitable for section pages (Sports, World, Politics).

Once they are created, you can go to Administer > Site building >
Menus (or via the menu section of the edit form itself) and you can
assign their paths (node/124, node/125, node/126) to the primary menu
by adding them as menu items.

Then, when you click these menu items on the primary menu you go to those pages.

But there is nothing intrinsic in the content type that makes it
appear on a menu since it is not a piece of content.

What you need to do if you have created a content type is create a few
instances (nodes) and assign those to the primary menu.

Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com.ar

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:03 PM, David Sharpe <das74 at wbic.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Ok its not a page, I lied.  Its a content-type I created.  But I can't
> see any setting in the properties of the content-type that would manage
> its display or non-display of the primary menu?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
> Victor Kane wrote:
>> Since all pages have the primary menu appear by default, and no page
>> is on the primary menu unless you put it there, it is hard to
>> understand your situation, perhaps clarify?
>>
>> Victor Kane
>> http://awebfactory.com.ar
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:18 AM, David Sharpe <das74 at wbic.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a page which does not, and which I don't want to appear on the
>>> primary menu.  I link to this page through an embedded view.
>>> BUT this page does not show the menu either (I can see why this is the
>>> correct behaviour, as it has no relationship to any other page as far as
>>> it knows) - and I want it to show the menu on all pages.
>>>
>>> So how do I make the primary menu show on this page, without making the
>>> page show on the primary menu :-)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dave
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