Hello anyone, everyone...

I am in the middle of constructing a Typo3-based site for my church (http://69.89.31.62/~mcaonlin/index.php?id=home) and I have a question about menus; I am fairly new to typo3 and typoscript so please bear with me. If you look at that page as a reference, my question might make more sense.

In the top menu if you go to the topic 'Ministries', you will see a blank page but the sub-menu will appear. The sub-topics are: Special Interest, Adult, Teen & Young Adult, Children and Global. So under the 'Adult' topic, I have pages created for: Men, Women, Adult Development and Newly Married, but there are currently no links to them. what I would like is for the third-level links to appear on the page (probably to the right side, in place of the 'News' area), only when you are in that sub-section.

Can anyone help out in trying to make that happen? I was wondering if I need to set the typoscript in the main template to 'hide in menu' (is that the proper term?), and then when it gets to those pages go into the setup and override the typoscript to have them displayed. But at this point I'm confused; every other online tutorial that I try and pull up is geared toward a flyout or dropdown menu with three levels - nothing about splitting the menu and having different parts displayed on different areas of the page.

Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
-TC

Hey Tim,

Your site looks great! If you've figured out templating, you must be making some good progress

If you look at the menu configuration in the WEC Starter Package, I think that will help you out. In the main menu, we have the following Typoscript....



1,2,3, and 4 all define the different levels of the menu. If you want your menu to only go 2 levels deep, then just delete the Typoscript for levels 3 and 4. You can do this in the main Typoscript template to have it affect the entire site or on the Ministries page if you only want it to affect pages within the ministries section.

The Starter Package menu configuration may also help you out with with the alternate menu location. It defines an alternate menu that starts at a lower level in the pagetree than the main menu. You'll notice that lib.mainmenu above has entryLevel = 0. This tells it to show the top level pages on the site. The definition for lib.altmenu uses entryLevel = 1, so that means it only shows second level pages inside the current page. This would allow you to show specific ministries through a separate Typoscript-based menu. You can then map that menu through TemplaVoila and have it show up anywhere on your page.



Hope those general instructions are at least a little helpful. If you need some more details, just let us know.

Thanks,
Jeff

Jeff,

Thanks for the reply - I might need just a bit more detail, but I'll get back to you here in the next day or so after I've had a chance to try this out. One of the frustrating things for me (like other types of programming) is that the change can't be made directly to the parent of the sub-pages - i.e., the 'Ministries' page. I can't just go and add typoscript for that page and its children.

Another thing that I'm not too keen on is the addition of an editable area through TemplaVoila. I think I read through it somewhere, but it seemed tedious at first glance.

More to come; thanks for your time,
-Tim

All,

Well, I'm kind of lost on this one - I'm not sure how to get the sub-menu to display for just this section. If I tell the main template to show me 4 levels, then when I go into every other sub-section of the site I will see all of the other sub-section links as options, right?

I would only like to see them like this (the ones in bold would be visible while on the selected page (underlined and bold)...

I.
---A.
----------1.
----------2.
----------3.
----------4.
---B.
---C.
----------1.
----------2.
----------3.
----------4.
II.
---A.
---B.
----------1.
----------2.
----------3.
----------4.
---C.
III.
---A.
---B.
...

Thanks for any help you can offer!
-Tim

Hi Tim,

If I understand you correctly, you want to have only the current section's sub-pages show? To do that, change the value of



to



This will only allow the current section's pages to show. You would need to do this for each level of the menu, so if you wanted this display behavior to carry down, it would look something like this:

#Submenu
lib.altmenu = HMENU
lib.altmenu {
entryLevel = 1
1 = TMENU
1 {
noBlur = 1
expAll = 0
wrap = <ul> | </ul>
NO {
wrapItemAndSub = <li> | </li>
stdWrap.htmlSpecialChars = 1
}
}
2 = TMENU
2 {
noBlur = 1
expAll = 0
wrap = <ul> | </ul>
NO {
wrapItemAndSub = <li> | </li>
stdWrap.htmlSpecialChars = 1
}
}
}

The number preceding the TMENU object defines the level of the menu, so however many levels you anticipat, you can define.

I hope that was what you were looking for.

Thanks,
Barbara

Hello friends,

I have problem with the menu of the clone of template Natural of Hope, because I don,t see items of the third level menu for curent page. You can see it on the test page http://test.skcold.sk for Historia pages.

Thanks for any helps.

Juraj,
I double checked the behavior on the default Nature of Hope template series and everything is working there. I would suggest comparing your menu configuration to the default template to see if there are differences.

The Nature of Hope template series uses different menu Typoscript than the other WEC templates. For this reason, the menus are defined with the local processing field of each TemplaVoila Template Object so that's where you should check when making your comparisons.

Thanks,
Jeff

Hi Jeff,

you've been right. I changed LP for 2. submenu from wrapItemAndSub = <li><span class="act"> | </span></li> to wrapItemAndSub = <li> | </li> and it's work. But I don't know it's realy corect.
Be bless,

georgesk