Menu Management not working (or not understood!)

Wednesday 31 January 2007 4:50:15 am

I am playing with a test installation of ezpublish 3.9, it's mostly becoming clear as I play with things and do things but I can't seem to change the menus as I want.

I have logged in to the admin interface and have selected "Design", "Menu Management" and I have changed the menu positioning to "Left Menu" which is supposed to give only left menu. I have clicked on the "Apply changes" button at the bottom. However nothing anywhere has changed, neither in the admin site nor the user site, I still just have the menu across the top.

Am I misunderstanding what the Menu Management is supposed to do? Or am I not actually applying the changes I am making to my web site? Or what?

Wednesday 31 January 2007 5:58:23 am

Yes, at least I think so. A assume you mean the "Clear all caches" button in "Setup"? Anyway I have just done that again and I still have just the top menu.

By the way I can successfully edit content so I am 'talking to' the right database.

Wednesday 31 January 2007 8:39:41 am

<i>ezwebin (Website Interface) does not support changing the menu layout from the admin interface. It is only possible by getting down and dirty with the templates at the moment.
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So what are all Menu Configuration bits in the Admin interface for then? It's a bit confusing to give no indication at all that they're "not yet implemented" if that's what the problem is.

Are there any other parts that aren't working yet?

As a corollary, are there any 'ready rolled' alternative layout templates available that one can copy and use?

Wednesday 31 January 2007 10:29:29 am

> As I said, you can use the plain site package instead of the website interface. Then you'll get > the 3.8 and lower design witch does support changing the menu from admin.

Now I'm even more confused! :-)

Is that the choice you make towards the end of the installation? Is the main/basic difference that you don't get the ability to edit the site from the site itself with the 'plain' interface? (i.e. you can only make changes from the admin interface) Does it otherwise look basically the same when installed?

Is that the only part of the admin interface that doesn't work with the website interface? Is the intention to make it work in the future?

Thanks for all the help so far.

Wednesday 07 February 2007 12:13:24 pm

@Chris and Sean:

Website Interface currently support only flat top and double left menu. It is not decided yet to provide support for other menu combinations. Functionality in admin interface is compatible with old packages used before 3.9.0 as André wrote.

If you want you can add menu management by yourself in pagelayout, you are free to change templates, customize design etc.

Here is a tpl example

{menu name=TopMenu}

{menu name=LeftMenu}

You can replace top and left menu code in pagelayout with code above. Then it will be load dynamically.

You can also use "base" design instead of ezwebin design which supports menu management too, however you will need to move styles by yourself.

Note that ezwebin uses also better layout setup which is not compatible with old one.

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