[opencms-dev] separating navigation entries of the same level in a page.

[David Tildesley (DSLWN)]

Guillaume,

It depends on which method you use: getNavCurrent, getNavParent, getNavRoot
etc as to where it starts the navigation from. You can use multiple
navigation elements to repeat the navigation in more than one place.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guillaume Levrero [mailto:guillaume.levrero at opengate.fr]
> Sent: Friday, 21 February 2003 5:50 a.m.
> To: opencms-dev at www.opencms.org
> Subject: RE: [opencms-dev] separating navigation entries of the same
> level in a page.
> 
> 
> I understand that the navigation system works on folder. And to my
> understanding there is no way to implement the following menu 
> system see
> link below, I just want to make sure before I use a work around.
> 
> The website below is a work in progress, the button at the top are
> managed throuh the navigation class, My problem is I can't 
> also use the
> navigation class with the vertical button.
> I wanted to give the client the options to easily add button 
> to the top
> of the screen or to the left through navigation class.
> Note that wherever you go on the site the button do not change.
> 
> http://www.opengate.fr/opencms/export/www.bucerep.com/index.html
> 
> 
> 
> http;//www.opengate.fr/opencms/opencms/syste
> On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 20:57, David Tildesley (DSLWN) wrote:
> > Guillaume,
> > 
> > the navigation system heirarchy works on folders, so group 
> the files you
> > want to associate into a folder. When you create the folder, you can
> > navigation information for that folder - it will 
> automatically then create
> > an index.html file. All this is in the  existing manual.
> > 
> > rgds,
> > 
> > David.
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Guillaume Levrero [mailto:guillaume.levrero at opengate.fr]
> > > Sent: Saturday, 15 February 2003 12:43 a.m.
> > > To: opencms-dev at www.opencms.org
> > > Subject: [opencms-dev] separating navigation entries of 
> the same level
> > > in a page.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi everyone,
> > > 
> > > I am working on this website where the client wants to have 
> > > links on the
> > > top of the page and links on the left of the page (they 
> don't change
> > > during the visit of the site). and he wants to be able to add 
> > > and remove
> > > links depending if he adds or remove the linked html pages.
> > > 
> > > I thought that was a design point that the navigation class 
> > > could easily
> > > handle. 
> > > I had no problem creating the horizontale menu, but then I 
> > > realised that
> > > there is no obvious way of logically seperating the menu which are
> > > displayed vertically from the one displayed horizontaly. 
> all the html
> > > pages are in the root folder, so the nav calls can't tell 
> which link
> > > should be vertical and which should be horizontal.
> > > 
> > > I can think of some solutions, but there are all a bit of 
> an hack and
> > > long winded. I just wondered if there is something obvious I 
> > > have missed
> > > on how to use the nav class. Or does anyone can think of 
> a "graceful"
> > > solution.
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance for your help.
> > > 
> > > Guillaume
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
>