Posted by Branjawn on June 24, 2010 at 3:18pm
I think this is simple anyways...
Let's say my primary menu has parent of 'Apple' with child menu items (pages) of Sour, Green, Red, and Bad.
Well, I've decided to make an actual page for 'Apple' and I want it to display Sour, Green, Red, Bad as menu options, but outside of the primary menu.
Example:
Main menu: Beets - Bears - Battlestar - Oranges - Pears - Apples - etc
Content of page:
Menu:Sour - Green - Red - Bad
photo gallery
blog
etc etc
Comments
Unclear
Do you mean you want a secondary menu?
the "Menu Blocks" module is awesome. For example, in your scenario, it is logically consistent to have sour, green, red and bad as children of the "apple" category, yet, you do not want those children to appear in the primary menu. With "menu block" you can keep that relationship, but specify how menu block renders the menus. So, you can tell it to only show parent items (beets, bears, battlestar, etc) but then define a menu block that starts on the child item for the parent on that page.
HtH; Kyle
Clarification
So, to be specific, at my church website I have on the primary menu:
Home - About Us - Sunday - Connect - Resources - Contact
Connect is a dummy menu item, just used to house the child items: Missions - Ministries - Home Groups - Forums
I decided it would be better to have a Connect portal page than a dummy page with url of .
I use Panels. So I am making a panel for Connect with 'Who's Online', 'Recent Comments', 'Recent Classifieds', etc
At the top I want the Missions - Ministries - Home Groups - Forums menu horizontally so people know that there are other items to see
here is the website if you want to see for yourself: www.foc4u.org
Beware the unclear subject line
You know, as I typed, my uncertainty vanished, but I didn't update the subject line.
I'm still thinking that "menu blocks" will fit the bill for you.
1 - to use a "dummy" menu
1 - to use a "dummy" menu item like you are doing, use the Speical Menu Items module, then you can give a menu item the path "nolink" and it will not link to anything, instead of linking to a useless page (http://drupal.org/project/special_menu_items)
2 - Menu Block module http://drupal.org/project/menu_block