<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>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.</DIV><DIV> <BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 1, 2006, at 8:47 PM, Tod Thomas wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ken Dow wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi Tod,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">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</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">* 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).</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">That said, it does automate the creation of a site menu system based on one or more vocabularies.</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">That's exactly what I needed, thanks!<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Is there a way to get around not being able to link anything to the vocabulary root?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Tod</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[ Drupal support list | <A href="http://lists.drupal.org">http://lists.drupal.org</A>/ ]</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Sans; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; 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margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#525252" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(82, 82, 82); font-family: Helvetica; ">Ken</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ; font-family: Helvetica; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#525252"><BR style="; color: rgb(82, 82, 82); font-family: Helvetica; "></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#525252" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(82, 82, 82); font-family: Helvetica; ">s</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#525252" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(82, 82, 82); font-family: Helvetica; ">kype: </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#525252" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(82, 82, 82); 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font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(82, 82, 82); font-family: Helvetica; ">Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#525252" face="Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;; color: rgb(82, 82, 82); font-family: Helvetica; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(82, 82, 82); font-family: Helvetica; ">-</SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(82, 82, 82); font-family: Helvetica; "> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(82, 82, 82); font-family: Helvetica; ">James F. 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