Hey all,

I'm a C# and XML/XSL developer new to DNN.

I'm wanting to create quite a specific menu system for a website which is to be broken down as follows:

Menu 1
 - Horizontal menu showing just the root elements with no drop downs etc.

This bit i have got easily covered .


Menu 2
 - A vertical menu in a left hand side pane which displays in the format of:


Submenu item 1
Submenu item 2
Submenu item 3
Submenu item 4

..but if for example "Submenu item 2" is selected - the rest of the items in that level are displayed i.e.

Submenu item 1
Submenu item 2 (selected)
Submenu item 3
Submenu item 4

And if the selected item has children to be displayed as:

Submenu item 1
Submenu item 2 (selected)
  Child item 1
  Child item 2
Submenu item 3
Submenu item 4

I've had a look at House of nuke menu, Solmenu and the new DNN Nav but cannot quite seem to get what I want - they all seem to show only the curent level and not always display the level 2 items..

Could anyone offer any insight to this or recommend a module which would acomplish this?

Thanks in advance

Chris

Chris,

At the moment, I'm a bit boggled by all of the menu choices that now seem available. As Lee is the master of menus, I hope that he'll chime in with his observations, too.

I've had some nice success with the Snapsis' "CSS Navigation Menu," just to add another choice. With it, you can specify which levels of menu items are displayed in each menu. So, I'd guess that you can get the behavior you want from this system. It also allows a user to create a custom template for a menu, so you can do almost anything that you like in a menu.

And speaking of menus, the "DNN Dock Menu" from InspectorIT.com has some wild animated graphic menus for DotNetNuke. I enjoyed looking at the demo.

Yes there are now a lot of options out there. - I have implemented this design on www.skinningtoolkit.com using the housemenu, BUT it is quite complicated and takes a bit of programming various menus (think there may have been 8 separate menus across the various skins - but they look like one menu).

You can look at the css code from skinning toolkit to see how I have set this up and this tutorial:
How to create Horizontal CSS menus in DotNetNuke using the HouseMenu

outlines the technique that I used with the house menu - even though it's for horizontal menus it applies to how you need to configure your vertical menu.

- The other option would be to check out the snapsis menu, I haven't had chance to look at it yet but it appears as though it has a lot more flexibility in terms of configuration options so you maybe able to set this up without jumping through as many hoops when using the house menu.

I hope this sends you in the right direction,

Thanks,

Thanks guys, I'll check out the tutorial.

Ive since had a look at the snapsis menu, very impressive and the developer edition costs next to nothing!

I'll let you know how I got on.

Chris