I mean, can I add an existing menu as a sub-menu of another? For example, I have an subject index menu and would like to add that as a tab to my main menu.
Thanks.
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This is a limitation of Backdrop and other CMS. The menu links are all pages, so typically, "About Staff" is a piece of content (a page), and all its children are pages as well. So, clicking "About Staff" will open the About Staff page (which you could manually make into a bulleted list of children - not ideal).
So, the module yorkshirepudding mentioned, Special Menu Items, is a good way to provide "just a parent link" or placeholder that will not open anything, but instead would show its children when hovering over it.
I haven't tried this in the front end, but the administration backend has a way for menu items to automatically render an index of children. This is done (programmatically) as follows (inside an implementation of hook_menu()):
$items['admin/structure/scheduling'] = array(
'title' => 'Scheduling',
'description' => 'Configure settings for scheduling.',
'page callback' => 'system_admin_menu_block_page',
'access arguments' => array('access administration pages'),
'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM,
'weight' => 50,
'file path' => backdrop_get_path('module', 'system'),
'file' => 'system.admin.inc',
);
In this example, visiting admin/structure/scheduling will open an index of all children (that is, other items that start with admin/structure/scheduling, such as "admin/structure/scheduling/students" and "admin/structure/scheduling/teachers" ). This index only displays the first level of children. You can see examples of this being used in several core modules.
Hi @leeksoup
Look at the Special Menu Items module which allow you to have placeholder menu items without links.
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I'm not aware of any way to do this without some custom code and I'm not aware what code would be, if it is even possible.
OK, thank you, @yorkshirepudding.
I am a little confused about how hierarchical menus work ... the documentation shows an example like this:
Homepage
About Staff
- Senior staff
- Executive staff
Contact us
- Directions to our office
- Maps
Login
But apparently "About Staff" is a link itself, AND has leaf links under it? I could do something like this manually, but what would the Subject Index link (equivalent to "About Staff" in the doc example) contain?
Hi @leeksoup
Look at the Special Menu Items module which allow you to have placeholder menu items without links.
This is a limitation of Backdrop and other CMS. The menu links are all pages, so typically, "About Staff" is a piece of content (a page), and all its children are pages as well. So, clicking "About Staff" will open the About Staff page (which you could manually make into a bulleted list of children - not ideal).
So, the module yorkshirepudding mentioned, Special Menu Items, is a good way to provide "just a parent link" or placeholder that will not open anything, but instead would show its children when hovering over it.
I haven't tried this in the front end, but the administration backend has a way for menu items to automatically render an index of children. This is done (programmatically) as follows (inside an implementation of hook_menu()):
$items['admin/structure/scheduling'] = array(
'title' => 'Scheduling',
'description' => 'Configure settings for scheduling.',
'page callback' => 'system_admin_menu_block_page',
'access arguments' => array('access administration pages'),
'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM,
'weight' => 50,
'file path' => backdrop_get_path('module', 'system'),
'file' => 'system.admin.inc',
);
In this example, visiting admin/structure/scheduling will open an index of all children (that is, other items that start with admin/structure/scheduling, such as "admin/structure/scheduling/students" and "admin/structure/scheduling/teachers" ). This index only displays the first level of children. You can see examples of this being used in several core modules.
This is a limitation of Backdrop and other CMS. The menu links are all pages, so typically, "About Staff" is a piece of content (a page), and all its children are pages as well. So, clicking "About Staff" will open the About Staff page (which you could manually make into a bulleted list of children - not ideal).
I wanted to add that another way is to create a short page for "About Staff", and add a sidebar menu (you can do this with layouts) that displays a submenu of children of "About Staff". This way people can still see the subitems of that page.
And, you can get even more creative - instead of creating a content page for About Staff, you can create a layout page with that path (and add it to the primary menu). In that layout page you can place a menu block instead of a body.
I wanted to add that another way is to create a short page for "About Staff", and add a sidebar menu (you can do this with layouts) that displays a submenu of children of "About Staff". This way people can still see the subitems of that page.
And, you can get even more creative - instead of creating a content page for About Staff, you can create a layout page with that path (and add it to the primary menu). In that layout page you can place a menu block instead of a body.