I have 1 site that requires 2 different menus [dnn:menu1] and [dnn:menu2] depending on which link the user clicks, how can i do this?

Regards

Richard

There are few differentr approaches to this. You could use anothermodule to achieve this, Inventua SideMenu comes to mind. this will give you a flexible CSS second menu.

Or you can go down the path you mentioned, using two solpart menus. Here is a snippet from one I set-up awhile ago. This was a primary with root tabs only (horizonal) and the second was a child tab only (vertical). Hope this helps.
XML:
<code>
<Object>
        <Token>[SOLPARTMENU:1]</Token>
        <Setting>
            <Name>rootonly</Name>
            <Value>true</Value>
        </Setting>
    </Object>
    <Object>
        <Token>[SOLPARTMENU:2]</Token>
        <Settings>
            <Setting>
            <Name>Alignment</Name>
            <Value>Vertical</Value>
           </Setting>
           <Setting>
            <Name>level</Name>
             <Value>Child</Value>
             </Setting>
        </Settings>
    </Object>
    <Object>
</code>
Then these are just called in the skin html file for parsing like so:
<code>
<td align="left" claSS="TopMenu" colspan="2" width="599" nowrap>[SOLPARTMENU:1]</td>
<td class="VertMenu" valign="bottom" align="center">[SOLPARTMENU:2]</td>
</code>

yeh i probably didnt explain myself properly, what i need is 1 menu on certain pages, and another menu on other pages so

page 1,2,3,4,5 use menu 1

page 6,7,8, 9 use menu 2

I am doing an exhibition site and on the home page you either select you are visiting the site as an Exhibitor or a Visitor, both need different menus

 

Regards

Richard

Couldn't you accomplish what you want bye creating 3 portals one for the main home page, a 2nd for the Exhibitors and the last for the Visitor.  When they select the appropriate type you direct them to the right portal eaching having there own menu scheme.  You can use the same home page by directing the child portals home menu back to the parent portal home page.  If I understood what you were wanting to do I think this will solve your problem.

Have a great day!

If I understand the requirement correctly you don't need multiple portals, just require login and assign the various menu items to which ever role the user is a member of.

 

hth Bruce

Yeh, the child portals will be the simplest idea i think as logging in to use a website is not ideal.

Thanks for the input.

Richard

rgnyla wrote:

Yeh, the child portals will be the simplest idea i think as logging in to use a website is not ideal.

If one of your users must be logged in ie Exhibitor, then they get one menu, the rest get another. Then all the visitors can browse the site without logging in, and the Exhibitor logs in when needing something spesific other then browsing. For all I  know maybe you have some dynamic content for the Exhibitor, so maybe they need to be logged in. If they will not need to be logged in maybe better off with 2 (or 3) portals. You could set parent to hold all tabs for ie visitors, and then when people click the Exhibitor tab they get redirected to child portal.

I currently went through the same thing , requiring more than one menu, and then had the "Slide Menu" developed by a great developer...

If you want to have a preview of the menu you may view my site that is still being developed at www.thetravelgal.com    ...please note I also had the skinning on the menu customed designed for my site but...

The slide menu offers you 22 options....

It can also be viewed at snowcovered at : http://www.snowcovered.com/snowcovered2/Default.aspx?tabid=164&CatalogItemID=1537

Hope this helps ...

Dnnwhat