Sorry, Jon, let me make this as clear as possible.

Each skin would have 4 options.

Page 1 - 1 menu - horizontal

Page 2 - 2 menus - 1 horizontal - 1 vertical - level="same"

Page 3 - 2 menus - 1 horizontal - 1 vertical - level="parent"

Page 4 - 2 menus - 1 horizontal - 1 vertical - level="child"

I want to reduce the clutter on the horizontal menu by limiting the pages that drop down. If you could set an attribute for the menu that would tell it to ignore the hidden flag you could then use a horizontal menu to display main menu items and the vertical menu to diplay the child pages by telling the vertical menu to "Ignore" the hidden setting.

I know I can stop the horizontal menu from diplaying the drop down by limiting levels, but that is not granular enough as I may want some of the pages diplayed from the horizontal menu but all of them on the vertical.

I hope that clears it up.

Jon,

See here http://www.icthustech.com/Support/tabid/139/Default.aspx

The entire site is laid out like I described. I am using the Inventua Side Menu here but would like to acheive the same results using two DNN:Menu's. While most of what I am looking for here can be done using the "level" settings that process is not granular enough. The Inventua Side Menu provides a setting to "Disregard Hidden Flag". While this works it requires a level of training for the users that I would rather not go through. It also does not offer the same flexibility as a "Disregard Hidden Flag" attribute would offer within the DNN:Menu. For example, a subpage of "Services" is "Domain Registration". It is not hidden on the main menu, but to get the side menu to perform appropriately I'm required to limit the levels that are displayed. If I could use the DNN:Menu for a side menu here hovering over the "Services" link in the left menu would drop down the "Domain Name Registration" link.

The HouseMenu also provides a provision to disregard the hidden flag.

I believe it's really as simple as adding a "Disregard Hidden Flag" attribute to the menu. This combined with the already existing ability to limit the levels of a given menu would really increase flexibility. While I appreaciate the efforts and products that Inventua and House of Nuke have provided for us, making it part of the core DNN:Menu also offers us a solution we know will grow with DNN and always be available. It also makes the skingin process far more consistant when we can use the same menu attrbutes throughout.