Navigation manager question

[kyllle]

Hi all,

I have managed to develop an understanding of the Navigation Manager,
I was wondering the following;

I have a navigation area that stretches along the top of my site, in
this area I have 2 sets of nav tabs, one set stretching along the left
side of the nav area and then another set stretching across the right
side both sets of tabs are styles differntly. How can I create the
both of these in the nav manager?

Thanks in advance

Kyle

[sharon]

Hi Kyllle

I don't think Iam able to understand u properly, but for evry
Navigation be it be Top, Left or Right, you have to make different
Navigation areas for them in Navigation areas you have to drag n drop
ur designed templates,

and in your Master template you have to output your Navigation area
Name.


If you still have any doubt, feel free to ask

Regards
Sharon

[kyllle]

Thanks Sharon,

Basically what i mean is, on my main top navigation bar I have
different types of navigation, on the left of this bar i have buttons
designed that focus on the main site navigation, then on the right
hand side I have 2 buttons that are designed that when you select a
button a variety of countries appear which are all linkable. I have
set up the main navigation and called the this in the navigation area
under the name topMenu, i have then added subMenu in place of the 2
buttons on the right but how can I add these 2 button names in the
navigation area without these 2 buttons inhereting all the main
navigation (topMenu) titles?

Sorry of this sounds vague but im finding this hard to explain

Kyle

[sharon]

can u pls send me a screen shot of this, iam nt able to understand it
properly

[Kyle *]

Hi Sharon,

Thanks for taking the time to reply. Attached is 2 screenshots of what I hope to create using the navigation manager. Basically there is a left nav which has no levels and a right nav consisting of 2 buttons/links which will open up a series of country links which you can see in screenshot 2.

Thanks again!!

Regards

Kyle Houston




> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:41:07 -0700
> Subject: Re: Navigation manager question
> From: sharo...@gmail.com
> To: RedDot-C...@googlegroups.com

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> can u pls send me a screen shot of this, iam nt able to understand it
> properly

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[Christopher Sheldon]

Hi Kyle ... the thing to keep in mind with Navigation manager is that
it utilizes pages that are attached to the main navigation list. So
if you want to use navigation manager to create a link it will need to
link to a page somewhere. That being said if you simply want to show
a specific subset of data attached to the main navigation list in some
areas of your page and not others I would add a standardField which
will contain some sort of string value you use for a flag. Then in
your navigation templates you could say if my flag = "side content"
then shows those instances on the side menu .. if it's blank it
ignores those. I currently use this logic to create my main, side,
quick links (text strips across top and bottom), table of contents and
a site map ... and basically it looks at some standards field value to
determine if that specific page should appear in a specific navigation
elements around the page. I get really creative with stuff like:

sf_showInMainMenu (true|false)
sf_showInQuickLinks (true|false)

Etc.

Hope that helps .. it works wonders in the sites I've dumped it into.

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[kyllle]

Thanks for your advice Sheldon!! I kind of understand what you mean
but not sure about the true|false part and how I add this to the code,
do you have an examples you could possibly send me about this?

Thanks again!

On Jun 15, 5:46 pm, Christopher Sheldon

[Ingo Hillebrand]

Hi,

you can hide and show navigation strucures using if / else statements
within your rendertags / navigation templates.

e.g.:
<reddot:cms>
<if>
<query
valuea="Context:CurrentPage.Elements.GetElement(sf_showInMainMenu).Value
" operator="==" valueb="String:true">
<htmltext>
Do something
</htmltext>
</query>
</if>
</reddot:cms>

Greetings,
Ingo