[support] D7/Views/Pathauto: Parent menu link not active

[Florian Auer]

Hi guys!

I need some help regarding the Drupal 7 menu config and Pathauto:

I want to set up a "News" page which is a View for nodes of content type 
"Article". It resides under the URL example.com/news.

Pathauto automatically creates URLs for articles with the following pattern: 
news/[node:created:custom:Y-m-d]/[node:title]

The "News" menu item is shown as active (<a class="active" ...) when I access 
example.com/news, but as soon as I show a particular news (e. g. 
example.com/news/1970-01-01/foobar) the active state disappears.

So basically what I need is this "expanded" behavior based on the URL. As soon 
as the URL contains "/news/*", the "News" menu item should get this CSS class 
"active". I checked the "Show as expanded" setting option for the "News" menu 
link item, but this does not work for nodes which do not have their own menu 
link...

Any hints?

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Cheers!
Florian