siteMenu Macro

Sitemenu is a general, configurable macro which builds navigation entities from the site structure of a Manila website. It is based on work by Seth Dillingham in mainresponder websites which built navigation objects that resembled the Microsoft file navigation widget. Sitemenu needs to be configured and there are whole set of pages in the manilaFixer sitemenu configuration page that documents that process.

The best way to understand how this macro works is to copy the site structure into a text outliner application. Collapse the outline to the maximum extent. Now locate the current page in the site structure by opening the minimum extent needed to reveal the current page.

Parameters

• startlevel (optional, default 1)- The depth at which names are displayed
• anchorClassName (optional, default "sitemenuOther") - the class attribute of a tags built as links
• flDebug (optional, false) - a debugging flag for the implementor
• endLevel (optional) - the depth at which traversal stops
• flProcessMacros (optional, default true) - whether macros in the result should be expanded

Depth means the number of names in the relative path of the page, relative to the home page. startLevel 1 shows the first level of names in the website.

Example

{ManilaExtras.siteMenu(flDebug:false)}

The effect of the startlevel parameter can be seen from this call

{ManilaExtras.siteMenu(startLevel : 3)}

which displays

Access Control Attached Documents Controlpanel Interface Hourly Hits Chart Import Functions manilaExtras Macros

accessTimestampString Macro allhourlyHIts Macro alternateTemplateLink areaTag Macro attachedDocuments bodyTag Macro breadcrumbs Macro csActionDict Macro editorialMenu getnamedLink Macro hourlyHits Macro includenews Macro insertBaseTag Macro loginForm marknonCachable Macros memberAttribute messageAttribute Macro messageCohorts Macro messageExpiryDate Macro messageReleaseDate Macro messageViewers metaRefresh Macro pathAtt Macro pathAttToIncludeMessage Macro pathDirectiveValue Macro pathPictureURL Macros pictureRef Macro renderOutline Macro renderScript Macro SCNSCall Macro shortCutToMsgNum Macro shortCutToPictureMsgNum Macro shortCutURL Macro siteCrossLink Macro siteMenu Macro siteStructureMap Macro spacepixels Macro storyAuthor Macro statsGifPage Macro embed Macro

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This picture illustrates the mechanism, by showing the site structure that matches the navigation menu on the left of this page. Some of the entries under manialExtras category have been removed for space considerations.