GotDrupal.com | Drupal Tutorial Site - menus

GotDrupal.com | Drupal Tutorial Site - menus http://gotdrupal.com/taxonomy/term/63/0 en Drupal Menu System Demystified http://gotdrupal.com/videos/drupal-menu-system-demystified <p>There's a mistake I've made which a few others have made too. The mistake is rushing into your new Drupal site and populating your menu right away. You simply add new menu items as placeholders until you can create or add the data. You set the menu path to something like <front>, and populate away.</p> <p>The frustrating part about this, is that your menus may not work as expected - at least when expecting cascading menus using the Primary links (or any other menu) as a hierarchy. Drupal needs to have something to point to in order to build it's internal menu.</p> <p>There is an option within the Devel module to flush the menu (internally known as the menu router and menu links), and this is great to know, but won't help unless the menus are linked to actual content.</p> <p>This video will walk you through the 'know-how' about how the menu works internally, and how to avoid the pitfalls of making your menus do what you want. I cover three other add on modules which you can use to make your Drupal serve up the order you've placed for it (did you catch that one? - if not, do you need a Menu? - being addicted keeps you crazy.)</p> <p>Modules referenced</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://drupal.org/project/menu_block" title="Drupal Module page for Menu block">Menu block</a> [<a href="http://drupal.org/project/issues/menu_block" title="Issues for Menu block">issues</a>] - [<a href="http://drupal.org/project/usage/menu_block" title="Usage for Menu block">usage</a>]</li> <li><a href="http://drupal.org/project/nice_menus" title="Drupal Module page for Nice Menus">Nice Menus</a> [<a href="http://drupal.org/project/issues/nice_menus" title="Issues for Nice Menus">issues</a>] - [<a href="http://drupal.org/project/usage/nice_menus" title="Usage for Nice Menus">usage</a>]</li> <li><a href="http://drupal.org/project/menutrails" title="Drupal Module page for Menu Trails">Menu Trails</a> [<a href="http://drupal.org/project/issues/menutrails" title="Issues for Menu Trails">issues</a>] - [<a href="http://drupal.org/project/usage/menutrails" title="Usage for Menu Trails">usage</a>]</li> <li><a href="http://drupal.org/project/Devel" title="Drupal Module page for devel">Devel module</a> [<a href="http://drupal.org/project/issues/Devel" title="Issues for devel">issues</a>] - [<a href="http://drupal.org/project/usage/Devel" title="Usage for devel">usage</a>]</li> </ul> <p>Sites referenced</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.lullabot.com/videocast/using-secondary-menus" title="Video by Addison Berry about Drupal's Menu System">Lullabot Menu's Video</a></li> </ul> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-media-reference"> <div class="field-label">Related videos: </div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/videos/drupal-menu-navigation-enhanced">Drupal Menu Navigation Enhanced</a> </div> </div> </div>  http://gotdrupal.com/videos/drupal-menu-system-demystified#comments Beginner menu block menu trails menus nice menus Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:58:27 +0000 SiteAdmin 72 at http://gotdrupal.com Drupal Menu Navigation Enhanced http://gotdrupal.com/videos/drupal-menu-navigation-enhanced <p>The Drupal <a href="http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/menu" title="Drupal.org Handbook page about navigation">menu system</a> is very smart about when it shows menus. It knows when a user has access to the menu, based on the roles the user has, and ultimately, the permissions the user has.</p> <p>This is a great feature of Drupal. However, you still need to provide some form of navigation. Out of the box, Drupal provides a Navigation menu and both Primary and Secondary links menus. No matter which one you choose to use, you can enhance this navigation by making it easy for users to get to where they want to go - or even better, help them find the content they may be interested in.</p> <p>In this video, I discuss the use to two different modules in particular. <strong>Dynamic Persistent Menu</strong> and the <strong>Me</strong> modules.</p> <p>The information I provide in this video can apply to many other navigation modules. It's the Me module which is providing the magic to make your users happy with accessing their content. You find information about the specifics of Dynamic Persistent Menu and creating a block based navigation area for your site. The advantage to block based navigation (as opposed to html/template based) is that an admin user, with the right permissions, can control the menu to their heart's content.</p> <p>If you have more suggestions about cool navigation and menu modules then please leave them in the comments below.</p> <p>Modules referenced in this video</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://drupal.org/project/dynamic_persistent_menu" title="Drupal Module page for Dynamic Persistent Menu">Dynamic Persistent Menu</a> [<a href="http://drupal.org/project/issues/dynamic_persistent_menu" title="Issues for Dynamic Persistent Menu">issues</a>] - [<a href="http://drupal.org/project/usage/dynamic_persistent_menu" title="Usage for Dynamic Persistent Menu">usage</a>]</li> <li><a href="http://drupal.org/project/me" title="Drupal Module page for Me">Me</a> [<a href="http://drupal.org/project/issues/me" title="Issues for Me">issues</a>] - [<a href="http://drupal.org/project/usage/me" title="Usage for Me">usage</a>]</li> <li><a href="http://drupal.org/project/nice_menus" title="Drupal Module page for Nice Menus">Nice Menus</a> [<a href="http://drupal.org/project/issues/nice_menus" title="Issues for Nice Menus">issues</a>] - [<a href="http://drupal.org/project/usage/nice_menus" title="Usage for Nice Menus">usage</a>]</li> </ul> <p><strong>Note:</strong> About the extra feature in Dynamic Persistent Menu. This is a link to the <a href="http://drupal.org/node/473936">issue</a> where I posted a patch that adds the checkbox feature of not showing submenus when the given url matches the menu which was selected.</p> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-media-reference"> <div class="field-label">Related videos: </div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/videos/drupal-menu-system-demystified">Drupal Menu System Demystified</a> </div> </div> </div>  http://gotdrupal.com/videos/drupal-menu-navigation-enhanced#comments Intermediate menus navigation Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:18:01 +0000 Matt Petrowsky 56 at http://gotdrupal.com