I have a new drupal site and I've tried to configure drop-down menus in the <primary-links> area. I can only see the top-level menus, whether I'm an administrator or a mere visitor.
I've googled, watched videos and stuffed around for over a day.
The vid at http://js.id.au/DrupalMenusProblem.ogv shows what I have and how well it works.
It's an OGG video, Linux users should have no problems. Windows users, say here whether you can see them.
The vid's about 2.7 Mbytes and runs for a whisker short of a minute. Any ideas?
On 05/20/2012 10:41 AM, John Summerfield wrote:
I have a new drupal site and I've tried to configure drop-down menus in the<primary-links> area. I can only see the top-level menus, whether I'm an administrator or a mere visitor.
I guess this isn't a drop-down menu. Maybe https://drupal.org/project/nice_menus helps.
On 05/20/12 17:59, steeph wrote:
On 05/20/2012 10:41 AM, John Summerfield wrote:
I have a new drupal site and I've tried to configure drop-down menus in the<primary-links> area. I can only see the top-level menus, whether I'm an administrator or a mere visitor.
I guess this isn't a drop-down menu. Maybe https://drupal.org/project/nice_menus helps.
Thanks, steeph, for your response. I see that, additional to nice_menus there are some other alternatives, and I might use one of them, but for now I'd like to get this to work. Mike Shannon's menus work and mine do not, and I don't see any significant difference.
The documentation I followed is this Mike Shannon video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH23k4dYd5A
At 35 seconds into my video, I show the edit page where I have two menus that are supposed to have submenus, Tournaments and Noo.
Since I received your reply, I thought to have a look at my Navigation menu which has lots of expanding menus that work, and I really don't see how they differ from mine.
I have now changed Noo's parent to Navigation. There, it expands as expected.
On 05/20/2012 04:04 PM, John Summerfield wrote:
The documentation I followed is this Mike Shannon video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH23k4dYd5A
I assume he is using a different theme.
I have now changed Noo's parent to Navigation. There, it expands as expected.
Right, I guess the other one isn't a drop-down menu.
On 05/20/12 22:34, steeph wrote:
On 05/20/2012 04:04 PM, John Summerfield wrote:
The documentation I followed is this Mike Shannon video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH23k4dYd5A
I assume he is using a different theme.
He was using rootcandy. I installed rootcandy and it doesn't display primary links or secondary links at all.
Other menus are placed into blocks whereas all the numerous themes I've tried (including the three rootcandy themes) have a checkbox to select or not select them, and they magically appear wherever the theme writer thinks fit.
In the case of rootcandy, they are selected, just like all the others, but as I said, they're invisible.
I have now changed Noo's parent to Navigation. There, it expands as expected.
Right, I guess the other one isn't a drop-down menu.
I've tried all the themes I have installed except for some of the Zen/JZen themes which seem to be mutually in conflict (enabling all gives assorted duplicate key errors).
And a few gave rise to security warnings.
I've perused the HTML & CSS generated and the menu module (I didn't find where HTML is generated) without seeing anything especially illuminating, but then I'm inexpert in CSS, PHP and barely conversant with HTML2, so that doesn't say much.
However, I had a look at the data in the table menu_links and that does make sense and looks wholly consistent with what I expect.
On 05/20/2012 08:37 PM, John Summerfield wrote:
He was using rootcandy.
He used rootcandy as an admin theme. This is only used for admin pages/paths. I don't know what theme it was with the menu, sorry.
However, I had a look at the data in the table menu_links and that does make sense and looks wholly consistent with what I expect.
I don't think there is something wrong with your database. You just don't have a drop-down menu ;) If your theme doesn't have this feature the easiest way to get it is probably to install a module like https://drupal.org/project/nice_menus.
On 05/21/12 02:53, steeph wrote:
On 05/20/2012 08:37 PM, John Summerfield wrote:
He was using rootcandy.
He used rootcandy as an admin theme. This is only used for admin pages/paths. I don't know what theme it was with the menu, sorry.
However, I had a look at the data in the table menu_links and that does make sense and looks wholly consistent with what I expect.
I don't think there is something wrong with your database. You just
It seemed to me, and still does, that the menus are configured to expand. I examined the data as a diagnostic technique, to see whether I could believe they are expandable.
don't have a drop-down menu ;) If your theme doesn't have this feature the easiest way to get it is probably to install a module like https://drupal.org/project/nice_menus.
Thanks for your efforts to help me. I was unwilling to believe that menu functionality incorporated into base Drupal isn't actually usable with any standard theme.
I happened to have a fresh virtual CentOS6 system to hand so I installed the necessary software to run D6 and D7 and set up one of each with just the base Drupal software, no additional modules and tested the menus.
In both cases, I can configure primary/main menus that are expandable, but that do not expand.
The Mannelli theme does expand the menus on D7, but not on D6.
Eventually, I have taken your advice and installed nice_menus and it does work nicely in the Navigation block.
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