I'm doing something similar to create 'bread crumb' or 'you are here' contextual style
navigation for my company.
It's based on the Site Layout Model where I've specified a 'startURL' for each
section. I use <cfa_siteElementGetParents> to get the structure of the page's
parents' Site Layout elements. (Each page has 'pageID' set as a return variable.)
Then I simply restructure that data (with the section labels and startURL) to use as
contextual navigation.
Any comments on this approach are welcome. So far it works cleanly and easily as long
as I'm careful to define the 'startURL' for every section.
I'll send you some code off list.
Tom Briscoe
Web Developer, AVP
Compass Bank
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.compassweb.com/
>>> "Leon Greeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/21/01 07:09AM >>>
Hi,
I am pretty new to the Spectra environment. I would like to know how to approach a
menu. Like a dynamic menu that will change ie, where the users are in the site.
Example.
ABS organisation has branches in country a, country b, country c ....... country xxx.
When a user first hits the site the default menu will load. From there the user can
select country a or b or c .... xxxx If the user selects country a then a menu loads
with main categories and subcatogories, only relevant to that country.
I was thinking of the following approach;
Must I create sections(different directories) for all the countries and then object
type will have all the properties a normal menu will have. The menu from the
differnent countries will be an object of the object type MENU. So that when a new
page is created by a "power user" it can pull in that menu with its objects(which is
the main categories and sub categories)..
I lost my mind about this problem can anyone mail me if anything is unclear. Maybe
ther is a simple way of doing this using spectra and I am just overlooking it.
Thnx in advance.
Cheers
Leon
Ps: ... if anyone can send me some sample code to work from I wont bug the list
again... :-P
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