Usage questions

[marltu]

Typical scenario: there are two menus (representing one tree), one on top (tab based, contains 1st level items), and sidemenu (contains 2nd and 3rd level items)

Tree structure looks like this:

• Home
• About
• User
  • Change password
  • Messaging
    • Read messages
      • Latest
      • Unread
• Legal

Top menu items:

• Home
• About
• User
• Legal

Side menu shows two levels starting from top menu. When any page in tree of "User" is selected, sidemenu should be:

• Change password
• Messaging
  • Read messages

Question: how do I show sidemenu?

Possible options are:

1. using trunk -- problem is you don't know which branch of top menu is selected.
2. using this-* -- problem is that "this" position changes depending on current page.

Is it possible to get something like current-active-branch-2nd-level-from-top and item.is_in_active_branch()

Thank you.

[idlesign]

Hi,

It seems that the effect could be achived by using the second option and playing around with custom templates.

Something similar to 'item.is_in_active_branch' feature is planned. Can say nothing about 'current-active-branch-2nd-level-from-top' for now, except that such-long-identifiers make me feel uneasy %)

[marltu]

Could you elaborate on how i would do this by using this-*

[idlesign]

Sorry for the delay.

I think you can try something like the following way:

1. Override template for main menu;
2. In overriden template find current branch item (I've just made a commit introducing 'in_current_branch' item property);
3. Copy found item into some variable of the main document context (e.g.: variable 'my_current_root');
4. Use that variable in 'sitetree_menu' tag instead of hard-coded alias.

Moreover in your templates you can play around with 'depth' items property.