Menu Question

[crnogorac081]

How about to contact me on pm and give me access to set it for you

[mbond5]

crnogorac081 do you know how to go about using the Section Picker module to achieve what I wish to be done, do I have to edit some of the coding?

Once I see how its performed or know what to do I'll be able to get the hang of this, I really don't want to hard-code it as then I'll have templates for each of the 8 main sections which would be a pain for updating in the future.

[erpe0812]

If this is your point of view start hardcoding 

[mbond5]

Hi erpe,

I read the thread and it doesnt really have a great description of how to do this, I imagine its relatively simple but at the same time it doesn't look that way from what I can see is it just adds a new Section thing but doesn't let me put that page onto other pages, didn't think something like this could be so complicated, hard-coding this may be easier for myself lol

[erpe0812]

Hi

you better should start to try the search and read some threads................

Start with the thread that is linked from the section picker page from AMASP

rgds

erpe

[mbond5]

OK installed Section Picker, created a new page and selected Section Picker now how do I apply this page to other one. There wasnt really no instructions I seen for this or screenshots showing steps to using it.

[crnogorac081]

On the All Modules And Snippets Page

cheers

[mbond5]

Tried reloading the modules but still doesnt work.

Where can I get the section picker module?

Thanks

[mbond5]

Yes I'm using 0.5.11 and it doesnt show up in mine for some reason it shows in the Admin-Tools but when I click on it it doesnt show any pages to clone

[crnogorac081]

I use wb 2.8 and it is working, just tested it did you used page_cloner_0.5.11 ?


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Just crossed my mind, you can also use section picker module, for example:

WSIB
- MenuItem1        ---- Subpages
- MenuItem2       ---- Subpages       
- MenuItem3       ---- Subpages
- MenuItem4       ---- Subpages

Seccond Carrier
- MenuItem2        ---- Just make title same, then in manage section pick sections which appear in MenuItem1
- MenuItem4       ---- Same as above

Unions
- MenuItem1           --- Same as above
- MenuItem3           ----- Same as above
- MenuItem4
- MenuItem5       ------ THIS  PAGE APPEARS FIRST TIME, from this one you will pick sections if MenuItem5 apeears somewhere else..

It may be better option for editing, as by editing - one ( main section) all pages will be updated

cheers

[mbond5]

Got that but when I go to Admin-Tools, click on Page Cloner no pages show up to edit, am I doing something wrong?

[crnogorac081]

Page cloner is tool --- it is visible in admin-tools menu

cheers

[mbond5]

Ok I got the PageCloner to show up but when I goto it doesnt show a list of my Pages, maybe it is not compatible with WB 2.8

[mbond5]

I put the Page Cloner module in the Modules folder and reloaded my Modules but cant find the Module it doesnt show up or show anywhere to edit it screenshots show in Admin-Tools but cant see it.

erpe, thanks for commenting but could you give me some more information on how to achieve it by doing it that way, like couple steps.

[erpe0812]

Hi you should read the documentation for SM_2 and have a look at the demo to make everything possible you want to achieve.
http://code.jellycan.com/show_menu2/
http://code.jellycan.com/files/show_menu2-README.txt
http://code.jellycan.com/sm2test/
Please keep in mind that it is possible to call the menu more then one time with different calls and levels.

rgds

erpe

[crnogorac081]

Use show menu call to display only that level

Your show menu function should start as:

show_menu2 (0, SM2_ROOT, SM2_CURR,   .....the rest of your menu call...

or

show_menu(0, 0, 1,  ....the rest of your menu call..

cheers

[mbond5]

OK, thank you, I will try this out and let you know if this works hopefully it will.

But I dont want MenuItem1, MenuItem2, etc to show on the first page in the Menu just after you click on WSIB, Second Career etc.

With this I only need one Menu then, so I can get rid of my other menu which I created the Program Menu.

If you don't mind and have some spare time could you just let me know what steps I'd need to do to achieve this, I really appreciate all the help and hopefully can get this to work as I imagined it to work.

[crnogorac081]

You can do it with one menu:

in root, make:

WSIB
- MenuItem1        ---- Subpages
- MenuItem2       ---- Subpages       
- MenuItem3       ---- Subpages
- MenuItem4       ---- Subpages

Seccond Carrier
- MenuItem2        ---- Clone page 2
- MenuItem4       ---- Clone page 4 

Unions
- MenuItem1           --- Clone 1
- MenuItem3           ----- Clone 3
- MenuItem4
- MenuItem5

I never tested it, but you can try this page cloner: http://www.websitebakers.com/pages/admin/admin-tools/page-cloner.php

Better than manual work

cheers

[mbond5]

Were you able to come up with a solution for this? Or would I have to hard-code it, hopefully not though.

[mbond5]

Yes something like that...

Main Page with 8

WSIB -> when you click on this opens new page, in left menu will be MenuItem1, MenuItem2, MenuItem3, MenuItem4

Second Career -> when you click on this opens new page, in left menu will be MenuItem2, MenuItem4


Unions -> when you click on this opens new page, in left menu will be MenuItem1, MenuItem3, MenuItem4, MenuItem5

This above is example of what I'm acheiving...

If you goto

www.scholarscanada.com/ses/

That would be Main Page where you have 8 options you click on one it opens new page and in the menu it has 16 things but for each of the 8, it may have different menu not utilizing all 16.

[crnogorac081]

You can have 16 menus then

each person can have their own menu, like:

John:
- Home
- work
- etc..

Marc
- Home
- Work
-Projects
- job
- career

Ana
-Career
- interest
-whatever..

Is it supposed to look like something like this ?

[mbond5]

I'm not sure how it is going to be yet from page to page since that information has yet to be given to me, but not all 16 titles will be needed on each of the 8 categories, but some of them will be used multiples times, like say the WSIB has all 16 and then second career may only have 5 of the 16 on it and another one may have 10 of the 16, etc.

Hopefully theres a way to do this, without making multiple templates and or a bunch of menu items, there must be a simpler way to achieve something like this, if not then I may have to manually hard-cord them in for each 8 sections which would be kind of tedious.

[crnogorac081]

can you write down how exactly you want menu structure to be.. from which page to open what etc..

cheers

[mbond5]

Thanks I have read through that and it does not solve what I wish to accomplish though.

[crnogorac081]

you can find more info about multiple menus here: http://help.websitebaker.org/pages/en/advanced-docu/designer-guide/multiple-menus.php