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Hi,

I'm surprised I haven't come up against this until now, but how would I create a secondary navigation with specific pages in it?

See the graphic here:

http://i52.tinypic.com/1zpgxe8.gif...

I need to show specific pages *on the same level* in one nav and the rest in another nav.

How would I do this? Two autonavs? An autonav and a pagelist?

Thanks for any pointers,

osu
osu
 
tallacman replied on at Permalink Reply
tallacman
Im working on a theme right now that I hard code this into using this cond:

<div id="navigation">
                  <?php
                     $navBT = BlockType::getByHandle('autonav');
                     $navBT->controller->displayPages = 'first_level';
                     $navBT->controller->orderBy = 'display_asc';
                     $navBT->render('view');
                  ?>
               </div>
                  <div id="sub-navigation">
                     <?php
                        $navBT = BlockType::getByHandle('autonav');
                        $navBT->controller->displayPages = 'second_level';
                        $navBT->controller->orderBy = 'display_asc';
                        $navBT->controller->displaySubPages = 'relevant';
                        $navBT->controller->displaySubPageLevels = 'all';
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http://soho.c5themepark.com/
click on the gallery menu and you'll see the second menu appear.

steve
12345j replied on at Permalink Reply
12345j
two autonavs
osu replied on at Permalink Reply
osu
Thanks for your answers, but unfortunately two autonavs or the code suggested will just show pages below a parent page.

The problem I have, is that if I want to show the pages in the blue autonav AND the red autnoav, I have a problem because About Us, Contact and Links are on the same level as the pages Home, Section 1 and Section 2.

The only solution I can see is to use CSS to hide the About Us, Contact and Links from the blue autonav because using 'Exclude from autonav' will mean pages I exclude from the blue autonav won't appear in the red autonav.

Let me know if that doesn't make any sense.

Cheers,

Osu
MrNiceGaius replied on at Permalink Reply
MrNiceGaius
You could set a custom page attribute, say 'add to secondary nav' for example, and then filter the results in a custom autonav template to only show those pages. I wish I could help more but this may be the right direction.
Pritam replied on at Permalink Reply 3 Attachments
I am in a similar situation now where I need two navigations , one on top, this one shall be a superfish drop down template and the second on the right side-bar. I attached a screen shot of the site map to show what I am trying to do.

Besides the pages that I want to see in the top nav, I created a page called side-bar nav which has children pages that shall appear on the side-bar navigation. I have excluded the page known as Side-bar nav from appearing in the superfish nav, However the children pages of this page then show up under Contact page which is a part of the superfish nav in the top.

I have chosen Display Pages at Top Level, Sub-Pages to display to all and Sub-Page Level: Display all , I also tried playing around with other options in the Sub-Pages to display and Sub-Page level, however it still the same, all the children pages of Side-bar navigation show up under the Contact page.

I visited the link mentioned by @tallacman , but thats a different case where there are no sub-pages to be displayed via drop-down menu.

Hope someone can point me in the right direction.
Pritam replied on at Permalink Reply 1 Attachment
I just solved my issue, by moving the Page known as the Sidebar Menu Page along with their children pages beneath the Members page and now things are working as I wanted them too. Attached is the screen shot of the sitemap.