What I really wanted was a menu group. Doing things in groups has solved my particular question.
Glenn, can you not just use groups? Do you need the hierarchal behaviour of nested menus? Joe On Jun 8, 10:24 pm, glenn <gl...@exmbly.com> wrote: > I have a similar request: namely, being able to apply expandAll="true" > attribute > not just to <lift:Menu.builder.../> > > but to <lift:Menu.group name="mygroup"/> and <lift:Menu.item > name="myMenu"/>, or, as Joe requests below, > > to any siteMap that is not the root siteMap. > > Glenn... > > On Jun 8, 2:06 pm, Joe Wass <j...@folktunefinder.com> wrote: > > > Sorry for yet another menu question. I have scoured this list first, I > > promise! > > > I'm trying to do something I think is quite simple: > > > Two [or any nuumber of] menus (with children). Two different > > templates. One menu and children shows up on one template, one shows > > up on another. They are each nested menus (i.e. I have two Menus, each > > with child menu items). You can directly go to any page you want, but > > only certain Menu items show up on certain templates. > > > I had thought I could put a guard (the last argument of the Loc) to > > only show a menu when the request string contains part of the path, > > but of course, that prevents you from navigating there in the first > > place so that's out. > > > I've seen this post > > :http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb/browse_thread/thread/dbdf6a17b... > > > but it doesn't quite do what I want: I want to be able to show a whole > > Menu at a time, not have to list each individual item in the template. > > I'd like to do something like this: > > > <lift:Menu.builder menuName="menu_name"/> > > > Any ideas? I'll accept a hack, I'm short on time! > > > Bonus marks: how do you set a menu to be expanded by default (without > > having to be on the root node's page)? I saw `expandAll="true"` > > somewhere, but that doesn't do anything... > > > Thanks! > > > Joe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
