Adding Secondary Menu Item

[rhocar]

Sorry, I'm sure this is obvious but I can't see how to add a Secondary Menu Item to an existing First Menu Item.   The Guide tells me how to remove them but not how to add them.   Can anyone help ?

[Marc]

You would simply drag it under the first menu to put it in the sub menu. Is this what you mean?

[rhocar]

Yes, although with a caveat.   If the primary menui item already has some secondary menu items then dragging it under the primary menu slots it  in quite happily.   But if the primary menu item doesn't have any secondary menu items then dragging the proposed secondary item on to it doesn't work, it still remains as a primary menu.

Is there a setting I have to allocate to a primary menu item that allows it to accept secondary items ?   Or do I have to do something when I add an item to make it a secondary menu item rather than primary ?

Hope that makes sense.

[Marc]

You can do it with no items currently there. Move your mouse to the right slightly like shown here

 

 

 

[rhocar]

Perfect, all sorted.   I doubt I would ever have found that trick, might be worth adding it to the guide ?

Thanks

Al

[rhocar]

Spoke too soon 😀   I created the new primary menu item and like other primary menus on our system that had secpndary items I selected the type as Drop-Down Menu.   I then created two secondary items and dragged them under the primary one as you described.   So far so good, it all worked.    Later I decided to rename the primary item and after doing that, it all changed and they showed up as drop-down options rather than secondary menu items.   Apparently I shouldn't have the primary item type as drop-down, but I can't see one that is relevant.

How do I force them to be secondary menus rather than drop downs ?

[Marc]

Im not sure I understand what you mean here. Secondary items and dropdowns are 2 different things. One is the type of link and the other is where its placed on our menu. Its not clear where you are having an issue

[rhocar]

I have a number of primary menu items that do not have secondary menus and two primary menus that have a number of secondary menus that appear on the second line    All I want to do is create a new primary menu with two secondary menus that will also appear on the second line.

When I look at the original primary menus that have secondary menus they have the 'drop-down' type selected, but if you look at the 'Edit dropdown' option for them there is nothing definmed.  And they work correctly with secondary options appearing on the second line.

So when I created the new primary menu I also set the type to drop-down then created the two secondary menus as we discussed.   But when I try to use them they (understandably) work as drop-down. 

So I guess my question is "What type do I allocate to my new primary menu option so it will accept secondary options that will appear on the second line."

Hope that is clearer.

Al

[Jim M]

You would not want to use dropdown as that would create a dropdown menu instead.

The primary navigation menu can be any menu type except for dropdown. In Marc's example, he used External Link.

[rhocar]

OK, got that, makes sense.  But that requires me to specify an external URL.    But I want selecting the primary menu to just show the secondary menu not go somewhere else.   Any clues ?

[Jim M]

10 minutes ago, rhocar said:

OK, got that, makes sense.  But that requires me to specify an external URL.    But I want selecting the primary menu to just show the secondary menu not go somewhere else.   Any clues ?

Hovering over the primary will show the secondary. There is no action to click to see the secondary.

[rhocar]

Hi, yes I see that.   But I can't see how to disable the click action having an effect.  If I click on any of my other primary menus they refresh themselves with the primary menu still selected.   I just need to figure out what link to use,    Good learning exercise 😀   Thanks for the help.

[Jim M]

3 minutes ago, rhocar said:

But I can't see how to disable the click action having an effect.

As mentioned in my previous reply, this is not possible at this time in the default software.