How to use Menus component?

[Eric Nguyen personal]

1) In my base-layout.ftl, how do I include essentials-menu.ftl which is the template for Menus component?

2) How do I add items to this menu?

I've dragged and dropped it to my home page for testing and it shows nothing!

In the CMS Channel Manager, it appears very confusing, I don't see the items anywhere:

[Tobias Jeger]

Hi Eric,

I believe the default menu name would be "main". There is no UI yet for creating additional menues, unless you go to the Hippo Console (I'm not 100% sure how much of the old URL en Navigation Management functionality UI is still present and working in this respect).

So much about visibility of the menu. Editing is a funny thing. We've set up the default template to render a "Edit Menu" button, which, if you're in the Template Composer's Edit mode *and* your menu component is *not* inside a container, opens up the new 7.9 menu editing dialog. However, if your menu component is in a container, clicking the Edit Menu button will open the component parameter dialog, which takes precedence over the menu editing dialog. AFAIK, this is still a hick-up in the Template Composer that needs to be addressed.

cheers

Tobi

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[Mathijs den Burger]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Tobias Jeger <t.j...@onehippo.com> wrote:

Hi Eric,

I believe the default menu name would be "main". There is no UI yet for creating additional menues, unless you go to the Hippo Console (I'm not 100% sure how much of the old URL en Navigation Management functionality UI is still present and working in this respect).

So much about visibility of the menu. Editing is a funny thing. We've set up the default template to render a "Edit Menu" button, which, if you're in the Template Composer's Edit mode *and* your menu component is *not* inside a container, opens up the new 7.9 menu editing dialog. However, if your menu component is in a container, clicking the Edit Menu button will open the component parameter dialog, which takes precedence over the menu editing dialog. AFAIK, this is still a hick-up in the Template Composer that needs to be addressed.

Wild guess: in the CSS of your page, try adding this:

  .hst-cmseditlink {

    z-index: 200;   

  }

The channel manager overlay (with the yellow dotted lines) hovers in front of the page at z-index 100, so using a bigger z-index for the edit content button markup should enable the click event.

Mathijs