[support] creating menus with "system" destination URLs

[Neil: esl-lounge.com]

This is an example of the type of behavior I'm seeing, so as to make it a 
little clearer. I don't think the "me module" I mentioned in my initial post 
is at all relevent as I'm seeing this with all sorts of URLs I would term as 
"system" URLs.

1. I set up a menu item Search with /search as the destination. It shows.

2. I set up another menu item "Recent Posts" with /tracker as the path 
(don't worry: I didn't actually use the slash in the path!). It doesn't show 
at all under the Search item.

3. I change the destination URL of the "Search" menu item to something more 
generic like "node/34" and it shows up AND the Recent Posts item suddenly 
appears too.

4. When I actually click on "Recent Posts" and go to /tracker (which, again, 
I consider to be a default system URL), up above in my menu, the sub menu 
item "Recent Posts" disappears!

I am 100% convinced this is NOT a theme issue. I dipped my toes into this 
whole menu/sub-menu issue a month ago whilst using Garland on my test site 
and I began to see unusual behavior then. I told myself it was a Garland 
issue and it would be fine with our new theme. It isn't. It's totally broken 
and it seems to be the menu module. Out of interest, I set up "Forum" as a 
menu item (going to /forum) and it appeared AND allowed me to put regional 
forums (forum/2, forum/5) underneath it and they all appear perfectly. I 
would have expected problems with these URLs but haven't had them.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neil: esl-lounge.com" <neil at esl-lounge.com>
To: <support at drupal.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [support] creating menus with "system" destination URLs


> Unfortunately, that had no effect at all.
>
> One thing I noticed is that when I make the menu item expanded, the sub 
> menu
> items suddenly appear and, of course, stay there whichever page I'm 
> on....so
> the code is present to some extent.
>
> When I uncheck the "Expanded" option, the behavior returns to that I've 
> seen
> before of not showing any sub items.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie at users.sourceforge.net>
> To: <support at drupal.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 6:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [support] creating menus with "system" destination URLs
>
>
>> Quoting "Neil: esl-lounge.com" <neil at esl-lounge.com>:
>>
>>> I have a new theme and am now trying to create the menus. I have run
>>> into a lot of trouble with destination URLs such as
>>>
>>> user/me ( I am using me module)
>>> profile/me
>>> user/1
>>>
>>> These are either not being put in or are put in but without the
>>> possibility of adding sub-menus to them. Has anyone else struggled
>>> with this issue? I just created a menu item going to user/1 and it
>>> showed up in FF but not in IE.
>>>
>>> I realised it was because, only for admins, I still have the
>>> "Navigation" menu showing up and it has the "locked" item MyAccount.
>>> In FF, this disappeared when the new menu item going to user/1 was
>>> created, whereas in IE, it stayed in the Navigation menu and didn't
>>> show in the new menu. My head's about to explode. :-(
>>
>> Be sure the caching is flushed, including the caching tables in MySql.
>>
>> Earnie
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