> I am a novice with lift, I come from a zend framework background which
> lets me do the described above very easily, which leads me to believe
> I'm doing it wrong or Im missing the point.

> The Loc.Link class seams abit overloaded to me, it used for a)
> generating the url, b) finding the template and c) matching the
> request. This seams to leave the only option is to write a custom Loc,
> where you specify the different Loc parameters separately?

> I greatly appreciate your help.

> On Jul 26, 5:32 am, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:17 AM, Naftoli Gugenheim <naftoli...@gmail.com
> >wrote:

> > > Maybe one day, the menu hierarchy as rendered by the menu snippet
> should be
> > > decoupled from the set of menu entries that define the SiteMap itself
> (as
> > > used for page access etc.), with the rendered tree defaulting to the
> same as
> > > the actual SiteMap. This way, the SiteMap implementation remains the
> same,
> > > but there's much greater flexibility (for those that want to write the
> > > explicit code) in terms of how to display it.

> > That'd be great.

> > Given that the Menu snippets could be user-written code, there's nothing
> > magic about them.  If we see patterns of usage that go beyond the current
> > implementation, I'm all for enhancing the existing snippets or adding
> > snippets to reflect those patterns... but so far, I haven't seen
> patterns...
> > but if others are seeing the patterns, let's reduce them to
> > enhancements/additions to the existing menu/sitemap snippets.

> > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:13 AM, David Pollak <
> > > feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > >> You can only have 1 menu entry per URL.  You cannot do what you're
> trying
> > >> to do.  Sorry.

> > >> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 1:15 AM, bishop155 <chrisjbishop...@gmail.com
> >wrote:

> > >>> I want to create a Menu which has multiple items which differ in only
> > >>> the parameter passed. I'm pritty close:

> > >>> case class Test(id: String);

> > >>> var test = Menu.param[Test]("Test-1", "Test-1",
> > >>>                        s => {Full(Test(s))},
> > >>>                        pi =>{
> > >>>                                pi.id
> > >>>                        }
> > >>>                ) / "category" / * >> Loc.CalcValue(() => {
> Box(Test("1"))
> > >>>  } )>>
> > >>>                Loc.Template(() =>
> > >>> TemplateFinder.findAnyTemplate(List("category")).openOr(<div>Template
> > >>> not found</div>) );

> > >>>                var test2 = Menu.param[Test]("Test-2", "Test-2",
> > >>>                        s => {
> > >>>                                Full(Test(s))
> > >>>                        },
> > >>>                        pi => {
> > >>>                                pi.id
> > >>>                        }
> > >>>                ) / "category" / * >> Loc.CalcValue(() =>
> Box(Test("2"))
> > >>> )>>
> > >>>                Loc.Template(() =>
> > >>> TemplateFinder.findAnyTemplate(List("category")).openOr(<div>Template
> > >>> not found</div>) );

> > >>> val entities =  test :: test2 :: Nil;

> > >>> SiteMap.enforceUniqueLinks = false;

> > >>> But it always matches the first menu item, and never the second. is
> > >>> there a way I can change the doesMatch_? function? (Ive successfully
> > >>> managed to achieve this by writing a custom loc, wondering if theres
> > >>> another/better way to do it?)

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