[support] Redirecting menu links

[antgiant]

We use CCK Redirection (http://drupal.org/project/cck_redirection) for a
very similar situation.  Hope that helps.
--
antgiant


On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:12 PM, larry at garfieldtech.com <
larry at garfieldtech.com> wrote:

> This is a bit convoluted, so please bear with me. :-)
>
> I have a site that is using Domain Access, and has 2 domains on it.
>
> Each domain has a separate menu configured as its primary links menu. This
> menu is placed into a block in the sidebar.  So far so good.
>
> However, we now need links in those menus.  On siteA, we need a link to
> /calendar, under which is a link to /calendar/concerts.  This is fine.
>
> On siteB, we also need a link to /calendar, under which is a link to
> /calendar/concerts.
>
> While those pages themselves function fine and pull in all of the
> appropriately domain-filtered data, the links themselves are problematic
> because of two issues:
>
> 1) If you put the same path in the menu system multiple times, Drupal
> frequently (although not always, just to keep things interesting) gets
> confused and will lose track of what the active menu path is.  That means
> expanded menus and breadcrumbs will be wrong.
>
> 2) In Drupal 5, the way around that was to use the url_redirect module to
> create a redirect, say, calendar-siteB, that directs to just /calendar, and
> put the redirect in the menu.  That worked wonderfully. However, Drupal 6
> has a thoroughly annoying overly-sensitive permission check that breaks
> url_redirect:
>
> http://drupal.org/node/190867
> http://drupal.org/node/308263
>
> So Drupal prevents us from taking that approach.
>
> Anyone else have a suggestion for how to make those menu links work? :-)
>
> --Larry Garfield
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