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cyfarian
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05/16/2007 8:49 AM  
Hi John,

I want mine to do this as well, but it is not. What settings do I need to keep the child menu links to stay visible once you are on one of the child pages?
John Mitchell
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05/16/2007 10:07 AM  
To keep the child menu active while you are on one of the child pages you would set:

showType="WithActiveParent"

cyfarian
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05/16/2007 10:24 AM  
Posted By John Mitchell on 05/16/2007 10:07 AM
To keep the child menu active while you are on one of the child pages you would set:

showType="WithActiveParent"


Where do I put that? I am a complete DNN noob.  I normally use joomla (PHP-based)

Thanks!
Jill

John Mitchell
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05/16/2007 10:35 AM  
Hi Jill,
It goes in your skin where the Snapsis:NavMenu is defined.

The documentation in the package covers this, but if you are starting completely from scratch then you may want to learn a little more about DNN skins first.

cyfarian
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05/16/2007 10:43 AM  
John,

I actually tried that before posting....and I just tried it again...


Am I doing that right? It didn't work. I will check out the documentation. I didn't make the skin, Nina Meiers did. Thank you.
cyfarian
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05/16/2007 10:58 AM  
John,
I checked the documentation and it was what I was trying to do.  So i am a bit confused.  However, I am not sure if I am doing it right because she is using a solpart menu for the child menu.  I was putting the showType="WithActiveParent" in the parent .

I see my paste didn't take in the last post...this is what I put in

Snapsis:NavMenu id="ParentTabs" Level="0" Recurse="false" NavType="Tabs" ExcludeTabs="Admin,Host" runat="server" showType="WithActiveParent"

The child code is

dnn:SOLPARTMENU runat="server" id="dnnSOLPARTMENU" display="vertical" level="Child" usesubmenubreadcrumbarrow="False"  usearrows="False"
John Mitchell
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05/16/2007 11:43 AM  
Hmmm, I'm not sure what is happening here, but it looks like Nina has given you a child menu using the Solpart DNN Menu. If that is the case then what I am telling you will not work.

I'll ask Nina to help with this.
cyfarian
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05/16/2007 1:41 PM  
okay, I switched the solpartmenu to a snapsis childmenu. So it now works, but it obviously loses all of the solpartmenu css formatting. I redid the CSS file, but that is not my strongest point and I can't get the flyouts to work. The "grandchildren" and inline with the children. I tried copying it from your vertical flyout and changed it to #Nav to #ChildTabslevel1, but it didn't work

#ChildTabsLevel1 li ul { /* second-level lists */
position : absolute;
left: -999em;
background-color:#d8edfb;
margin:-1.9em 0 0 14em;
border:1px solid #333;
}

Any thoughts?
John Mitchell
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05/16/2007 1:51 PM  
It sounds like you are on the right track. I'm guessing you want a Flyout menu for the vertical child menu then.

Make sure you change all the #nav to #ChildTabsLevel1 and also make sure that is the ID that you have given your new Snapsis child menu in the skin file.

Snapsis:NavMenu id="ChildTabsLevel1"

I can't really tell what may be wrong without seeing the full CSS, and it would be even better if I had the full skin. If you can send it to me by replying to the notification of this post then I may be able to figure out what is not working.
Barend
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05/24/2007 2:50 PM  

I want to use the flyout menu but the problem I have is that de control does not create a multilevel list. I have a page structure like this:

Page 1
   Page 1.1
   Page 1.2
Page 2
   Page 2.1
   Page 2.2

The only thing I get is one list with

  • 's. Second levels are display with the css class "level1".

    How can I get a flyout menu???

    Please help

  • John Mitchell
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    05/24/2007 2:55 PM  
    Set the NavType="Hover" to do Flyout menus like suckerfish. The NavType="Tabs" is for the sliding doors type of tab menu and produces only a single List like you described.
    Barend
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    05/24/2007 3:28 PM  
    I did set it to "Hover" but it won't work. All I get is one list with < li >'s that are identified with classes like "level0" and "level1". Does it require an update?
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