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packrat
Posts:64
| | 06/06/2007 4:26 PM |
| Hi John,
I am using cssnav menu throughout my site www.jupiterchristian.org and I have setup a couple of quick link dropdown boxes on the home page - one for quicklinks and one for Offices & Services. In the quicklink box, I cannot get one of the tabs out of the selection even though I have added it to the excludetab property. All other pages I add to the property get excluded but not this one. It is the link to the secondary high school page. I have it under Offices & Services but it also shows up in the quicklink dropdown box. Any ideas as to why?
Thanks,
Paul | | | |
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| John Mitchell
Posts:3478
| | 06/06/2007 4:37 PM |
| That is strange. Did you set these up as children of some parent, or just list all the ones you wanted in the IncludeTabs individually?
If you are using IncludeTabs, you should leave the ExcludeTabs setting out or set it to ExcludeTabs=".*"
Can you show me the IncludeTabs and ExcludeTabs settings for both lists?
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| packrat
Posts:64
| | 06/06/2007 4:45 PM |
| all the items in this list are children of some parent.
< div id="contentright" >
< div id="quicklinks1" >
< Snapsis:NavMenu ID="QuickNavList" Level="1-3" Type="SelectList" ExcludeTabs="Admin,Host,Home,Contact Us,Site Map,Calendar,About Us,Secondary,Employment,Academics,Elementary,Guidance,Admissions,Athletics,
Campus Life,Accreditation,Giving to JCS,Values & Beliefs,Technology,Booster Club,Fall Sports,Fine Arts,Student Development,Cheerleading,Cross Country,Football,Golf,Volleyball,Library,Winter Sports,Wrestling,Basketball,Soccer,Spring Sports,Baseball.Softball,Track & Field,Tennis"
runat="server" / >
< /div >
< div id="quicklinks2" >
< Snapsis:NavMenu ID="NavMenu1" Level="1-3" Type="SelectList" ExcludeTabs="Admin,Host,Home,Contact Us,Site Map,Calendar,About Us,Giving to JCS,Academics,Admissions,School Profile,Athletics,Game Directions,
Campus Life,News & Publications,School Directories,Accreditation,Giving,Values & Beliefs,Technology,Tuition & Fees,Booster Club,Notes from the Nest,Fall Sports,Cheerleading,Cross Country,Football,Golf,Volleyball,Winter Sports,Wrestling,Basketball,Soccer,Spring Sports,Baseball.Softball,Track & Field,Tennis,Photo Gallery"
runat="server" / >
< /div >
Update: John suggested using IncludeTabs property for accomplishing this. I obviously did this backwards with my original settings. I updated my code with
< Snapsis:NavMenu ID="QuickNavList" Level="1-3" Type="SelectList" IncludeTabs="Site Navigation,Game Directions,News & Publications,Notes From the Nest,Photo Gallery,School Profile,Tuition & Fees," runat="server" / >
Works perfect. The way I accomplished getting the dropdown list to display site navigation as the first item was to create a parent page that was hidden and added the site navigation page as a child. This page is disabled so that it is non-clickable. You also have to make sure that the hidden parent page is the first page listed for all your pages in your site. This will allow the site navigation page to be the first item listed in your dropdown. Hope this helps someone else.
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| John Mitchell
Posts:3478
| | 06/06/2007 4:51 PM |
| Wouldn't it be eaiser to only include the tabs you want? If it is like that then someone could add a new page and it will show up automatically until you get it added to the exclude list. | | | |
| packrat
Posts:64
| | 06/06/2007 4:56 PM |
| I think I got here by trial and error. I believe I did try the includetab property but had problems with parent/child items. If you have no other suggestions related to the way I currently have it setup, I will rework it with the includetab property. Just hope I don't repeat my efforts. Besides, I would rather do it the way the developer intended instead of monky'in it like I have done.
Paul | | | |
| John Mitchell
Posts:3478
| | 06/06/2007 5:14 PM |
| You could try Recurse="False"
Also, you may want to setup new parent tabs that you exclude from the main menu, but create new pages under that which point to the pages you want in the list.
So you could have a 0 level tab called "Quick Links" and then create child pages under it, but set it's url property to a "page in your site".
Then your list could just have IncludeTabs="Quick Links" | | | |
| packrat
Posts:64
| | 06/06/2007 5:23 PM |
| That's a great idea. I continue to be impressed with the seemingly unlimited configurations of this menu. Careful John, you're not giving folks a reason to upgrade when your previous version works this well | | | |
| John Mitchell
Posts:3478
| | 06/06/2007 5:33 PM |
| Thanks for the wonderful feedback Paul.
But have you seen the new 3.0 Menu yet? The new template type really does make any configuration possible. I also have a new developers license edition if you want to create skins for sale. BTW, I included your site as a showcase site of the menu on my demo page, thanks for making it look so good. | | | |
| packrat
Posts:64
| | 06/06/2007 5:45 PM |
| Ok...I'll bite albeit I'll pound you with a few more questions.
1) What's my cost if I start out with a single user license? If I purchased a previous version of the menu is there a discount for returning customers?
2) Would I be able to install the new menu and keep my exisitng nav structure in tact? Then start to work with it going forward to make the navigation even better?
3) Thanks for adding the site. Why is it listed without the www? Did you have any problems with the full url?
Paul | | | |
| John Mitchell
Posts:3478
| | 06/06/2007 7:40 PM |
| I don't recommend replcaing an already working instance with this new one unless you really need some feature in the new version.
Send me an e-mail and we can work out an upgrade.
I'll add the WWW, I was probably just lazy.
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