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[reeboot Friend reebootJoin date: March 2007Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#130844

What I’d like to do is change the JA Menu start level to like 1 or 2, so instead of displaying the 1st level of menu items as the top level, it shows the 2nd level as the top level, just like how the built in Joomla mainmenu works.

Can this be done?

For example this is the menu:
Home
Portfolio
– Web
– Print
– Graphic
About
Contact

So instead of the menu starting with the 1st level, I need the JA Menu to start with Web, Print & Graphic (the 2nd level) … Joomla’s mainmenu mod works like this…

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#259954

No one has any ideas?

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#259991

make a new menu with Web, Print & Graphic at the first level and assign the others at the second level under the 1st level item you want. or you don’t even have to do a new menu,, just reassign what you have.,

are you in 1.5.3 or 1.0.15

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#259992

That would be the simple way, but I can’t do it like that. If I separate the menu’s then there is no way for Joomla to know I’m in one of the top level sections & I need this too happen so there has to be only 1 menu. When I’m in Print, Web, etc.. (2nd level) I need to have the top level be active highlighting I’m in that section, can’t do that with your proposed method.

I’m in J1.5

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#260002

no, you misunderstood me, you should be able to use one menu.

are you talking about doing this

– Home
– Portfolio
Web
Print
Graphic
– About
– Contact

what would the – level be under, their has to be a top level for these items

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#260008

Ok,

mainmenu
1st/Top Level is: Home Portfolio About Contact
2nd Level under Portfolio is: Web Print Graphic
So when u click on Portfolio, u should get Web Print Graphic…

Basically, for the 1st level I’m using a regular Joomla mod_mainmenu pulling from the mainmenu, setup as a flat list, that just shows that top level.

Then, I’m using the JA MooMenu (which is in the template folder and not a module in the admin) to ALSO pull from mainmenu. The problem is, that the JA MooMenu always pulls ALL the menu items… what I’m looking for here is someway to modify the JA MooMenu code, so that instead of pulling ALL the menu items, just start with the 2nd level of Portfolio, or any other top level item. I know the regular Joomla mod_mainmenu can do this by entering a startlevel an endlevel. I’m thinking that the JA MooMenu can do this too, but it’s just not setup like that from default.

Does that make more sense?

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#260487

<em>@reeboot 66815 wrote:</em><blockquote>Ok,

mainmenu
1st/Top Level is: Home Portfolio About Contact
2nd Level under Portfolio is: Web Print Graphic
So when u click on Portfolio, u should get Web Print Graphic…</blockquote>

You mean something like the picture in this thread?

http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/help-combination-of-split-menu-and-moo-menu/

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#260526

Yup.
Level 1 is in a separate menu (using mod_mainmenu)
Level 2 is in a separate menu using JA MooMenu or JA CssMenu

The problem is, JA Moo/CSS menu always pulls from the top level down and I need it to start pulling only from the 2nd level.

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#260531

<em>@reeboot 67436 wrote:</em><blockquote>Yup.
Level 1 is in a separate menu (using mod_mainmenu)
Level 2 is in a separate menu using JA MooMenu or JA CssMenu

The problem is, JA Moo/CSS menu always pulls from the top level down and I need it to start pulling only from the 2nd level.</blockquote>

I have the same problem.
Now I’m fighting with codes.
If I find out something I’ll tell you.

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#260533

now i see what you want.

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#260535

If you open the Base.Class.Php in the ja_menus directory and go to line 334 I believe, there be a line like this:
$this->genMenuItems (0, 0);

If I put an itemId in for one of my top level sections so it looks like this:
$this->genMenuItems (54, 0);

It will show starting with the 2nd level!!! So if somehow we could figure out how to get the topmost itemId based on what page you are on via recursive function or something (i’m not a php coder) and plug it in that spot then it would do what we are looking for!

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