[development] Two tiered menus in D7 when the top level is user specific

[Rob Thorne]

"controlling their display via context"

What do you mean exactly by this? I'm assuming you don't mean a static
context here (there'd be far too many if it was one context per room in
my example), but a context object in the Context Module / CTools sense
of the word.

Thanks,
Rob

On 03/22/2011 07:04 AM, Bill Fitzgerald wrote:
> Is there a reason that having multiple menus, and controlling their
> display via context, would not work here?
>
> On 3/21/11 5:55 PM, Rob Thorne wrote:
>> I'm looking into a two tiered menu in a D7 application where the second
>> level of the menu is standard, but the top level is different for every
>> user.
>>
>> To make this concrete, suppose the user is a teacher at a school where
>> the teacher uses multiple rooms, and needs to order materials for each
>> room separately.  Each teacher has a separate list of rooms, but the the
>> pages we track -- class lists, crafts inventory, furniture... are the
>> same for each room.
>>
>> So for teacher A, we might have a set of menus like this:
>>
>>      * Room 220
>>            o Class List
>>            o Crafts Inventory
>>            o Furniture
>>      * Room 221
>>            o Class List
>>            o Crafts Inventory
>>            o Furniture
>>
>> and so on.  It's clear to me how to do a loader function and menu
>> handler for a link like 'teacher/%teacher/room/%/class_list', but I
>> don't see how to populate the level of the menus for '220' and '221' in
>> the 3 position.
>>
>> In Drupal 5, I used to use the !$may_cache argument for these sorts of
>> things.  I'm not arguing that this was efficient, but it did work.  What
>> hooks would I need to use in addition to hook_menu to make this work in
>> Drupal 7?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rob Thorne
>> Torenware Networks
>>
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