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4/28/2006 8:59 PM
 

Hello all,

I'm fairly new to DotNetNuke and I'm trying to figure out a way to have more than one instance of a menu
as part of the skin. Now I'm aware of the SOLPARTMENU1, SOLPARTMENU2 but that will not give me what I need.

What has been asked of me is to have the main vertical menu and three additional menus within a container that sit
under the main menu on the left pane.

I've tried using the SolPartMenuModule but it has not worked out so well, I can get it to work but I keep getting
an error that states "invalid at the top level of the document" when I do updates to the menu through the designer.

I'm doing this for my local church and they really like the minimize and maximize settings of the containers and
so they would like to see those three addional menus in the containers.

Not sure if anyone has done this or not. I also thought maybe it would be possible to embed another javascript
menu within the skin but not sure how I would do that with DotNetNuke plus embeding the functionality of the
min/max feature.

It would be greate to see if I can make the containers as part of the main skin instead of as a module that I have
to make sure gets applied correctly on every page.

Any suggestions anyone may have I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks
Leo

 
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4/29/2006 10:37 PM
 

Do you need a fly out menu?

Why not look at the http://www.inventua.com menu - that gives the ability to add as module or skinobject.

Also - you can utilise the links and breadcrumb modules in many creative ways to display side menus.

The benefit of this approach is that it also gives excellent browser compatibility.

Nina Meiers


Nina Meiers My Little Website
If it's on DNN, I fix, build, deploy, support,skin, host, design, consult, implement, integrate and done since 2003.
Who am I? Just a city chic, having a crack at organic berry farming.. and creating awesome websites.
 
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5/1/2006 9:27 AM
 

Nina, thanks for the reply and Yes, they need to be fly out menus.

I have the SolpartMenuModule working but I had to manipulate some of the settings directly in the database instead of the design control and create the .xml menuitems outside of the designer as well.

I still am looking for a better solution especially one that I can incorporate into the main skin rather than a module since the menu will be the same on all pages. For now though this will have to do since I need to get this completed soon.

Thanks again in advance for your suggestions and or comments.

Leo

 
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5/1/2006 10:21 AM
 
Hi
I've had the same problem and I first solved it with Inventue Sidemenu. It's okay, but it generates a menu in Tables (which I don't like). It worked, but not completely te way I wanted and not browser consistant. Now I switched over to HouseMenu (http://houseofnuke.com). It renders a unordered list wich is the only right way to create a menu in my opinion.
I'm using a menu split up in 4 parts on the site I'm working on. The only disadvantage is that you have to set the parent of each menu (you cannot set the Level of the menu).
The CSS is a bit more complicated because of the unordered list. There are some examples with the module but the concept is also explained at:
http://www.sovavsiti.cz/css/horizontal_menu.html and
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/
Hope this helps

 
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