How does the menu work?

 I have created several new pages that are not directly linked from the menu but I have content with links to them thoughout my site. The problem is when I click on the links my menu goes to the wrong active menu and displays the wrong sub menu. It's very confusing to even explain hehe. I understand if I had a static link for the content it would display under what every main tab it was under , but I have information on 50 states and each state is a "page" I created in dolphin. So I have a link to an index under a tab I called info that takes you to an index, but once you click a link to one of the state pages the menu looses it's place and goes to the wrong tab as active and displays the wrong sub menu. I anyone has any advice about the menu and my situation I am all ears!! Thanks!

-barry

ha ha ha,  i done that one, and it was a huge PITA. http://standagainstbullying.org if you want to see what i done to thwart the menu system. 

i used the US map, so you click on a state, and it opens a page of that state. leaving the menu intact. 

yes 52 pages created with i forget how many blocks. so every page and every block got language keys. yeah, huge PITA. but its working. 

how clean is that site Dos.... Realy like that.

 well thank you for the comment. that template was created by our friend MrP. the psd was provided by the client, and Darren created that template, not only that one, but four others for this same client before they chose one they wanted to use. 

 then we stripped it basically butt nekkid, as there is so much that is not necessary to run a 'social media' network. 

DosDawg! Exactly what I am trying to do, but I don't won't my menu to have 50 states on it. So I can create a language key for the top tier menu item or for the actually map think under the main menu? I am going to play with it and try to figure it out now that you gave me something to go on. Thanks a ton!

-barry

DosDawg could you clarify what you did to fix this?  One of my last remaining issues with dolphin that escapes me. Thanks!

-barry

 I have a similar setup but my map is embedded in a page I created useing the builder as an html block. This page is linked from the menu. Once I click on the main menu link for said page it moves the correct menu to another menu and renders the wrong sub-menu , although the page is displayed correctly. And then of course when I click on a state that is a link to a state page /page/Texas the same problem occurs. Is there a document on the usage of the menu or please , does anyone know a work around for this? 

-barry

It looks like the menu that you've posted is the breadcrumb menu, not the navigation menu. What the navigation menu controls is different (see image) i.e. the menu itself. The breadcrumbs just show what page you are currently on.

• So first question: when you look a the menu when not logged in, can you see "Test" in the actual menu?
• And second question: have you checked out admin>modules>page access control (http://yoursiteurl/m/pageac/admin/) to set the access on the actual page, as opposed to the menu, for the page "Test"?

 No I am I not speaking on the breadcrumb. What I call the sub menu is the menu just on top of the breadcrumbs which is built from which every link that is added under the main menu item. I don't have the page access control you speak of (your ver 6 maybe?). My problem isn't with permissions either. I will try to explain it again. If you add a link on your navigation menu to a page you created, and that page has links... once one of those links are clicked, since that link is not on the menu itself it loses it's current spot and defaults (not sure the criteria) to a different menu item , thus changing the sub-menu as well... DosDawg had the same problem apparently, but I haven't caught up with him yet to clarify his fix.

Thanks for your attempt though.

-barry

Create a page, don't put it on the menu , and call it directly and you will understand what I am talking about. The question is how to you set the active menu state for pages that are not on the menu?

-barry

 if you are not adding them to the menu, such as i did on the example site i quoted you, then you have to reference the pages from somewhere. there is no active state. the pages are in essence non-existent, since this is all dynamically built, and the pages per se' are in the database. 

so if you dont want the pages listed on the menu, and you have a map, interactive, then you code the link into the image section, of the map, notwithstanding that the map is not one image, but several images over one. i at one time, had the interactive map built where it had active and pre statuses, but that was too much to keep up with, since that actually required three maps, in order to serve the three different images. 

so at some point there has to be the legwork. i know what you are referring to on the submenu. when accessing any given page, there are submenu items that may or may not be part of the menu system, and i have no explored that, but i do know what you are referencing. but since the task you are attempting to achieve here, really is not bearing on the menu system, but some other mechanism that will allow site navigation through the site, whilst maintaining some aesthetics in design. 

if you looked at the map i have, you can see what i have done, in creating the larger map as the initial start of implementation of the psuedo-navigation system. on each page, i.e. Texas, there is a block, that references the map, so you would traverse back to the map, and select your desired state. which would open i.e. Georgia, and in turn have a block on there where you can traverse back to the larger map, and continue your navigation through the site. though never once, losing focus on what is default on the site in regards to the navigational system. 

I had a bug where I had created a menu link and had deleted it in the builders>navigation_menu, but it still existed in sys_menu_top table. So any page I clicked on that didn't have a menu link was going to this ghost menu item. I deleted it by hand and it is now fixed. Very strange but after my last dolphin time sink I think I am done finally! Thanks for the reply DosDawg.

-barry