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**Kermy** · 26-Jan-2006, 01:35 PM

One idea would be to use some JS inside the Act_ParentSectionsThis.html file to put the name of the section into a variable, before using it to compare against the names of child sections when looping through YahooSections()?

**shiver** · 26-Jan-2006, 02:15 PM

Thanks Graham, I take a look at that.

Has any body ever done this before?

**shiver** · 26-Jan-2006, 02:19 PM

Will NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONNAME work in the head of the primary template, i.e. does it not need to come before or in the YahooSections Javascripting?

**Kermy** · 26-Jan-2006, 02:30 PM

Looks like NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONNAME can't be accessed from the primary template. You could create a function that was triggered with <BODY onload="...">, which would run through the section tree and alter the style/class of the text when the right section was found.

Sounds like a bit of effort for a small reward, there must be a simpler way but i can't think of one at the moment

**shiver** · 26-Jan-2006, 02:36 PM

Yeah that sounds like it would work nicely, it's just getting the section flagged up

**wjcampbe** · 26-Jan-2006, 03:47 PM

We had a thread back in (December?) which dealt with showing the section tree for only the current section (i.e. the one section page and its sub-section pages). This required a return to the top catalog page to explore each branch, but might help with your problem.

**shiver** · 27-Jan-2006, 09:35 AM

Thanks for your reply, unfortunately we're not after a DHTML type hover menu. We've played with Normans menus already and although very functional don't really fit the bill.

We basically want to write a class into the current top level section to show the current sub sections and hide the remaining sub sections through css. Its a very simple and light weight solution.

Its just a matter of getting the top level section into the page and assigning it to the correct section in the menu.

The problem arises with us being unable to find a section identifier at the top level section level that is also available when in the child sections specific to to the individual parent section.

Sorry to ramble.

**wjcampbe** · 27-Jan-2006, 12:24 PM

Oh, that was not a hover menu. The thread I was remembering was in fact from October and the solution given was for a dropdown list of pages within the current section. I also found this http://community.actinic.com/showthr...n+list+current which suggests use of a bulleted section list.

These are both javascript solutions.

**shiver** · 27-Jan-2006, 12:30 PM

Thanks William, I'll take a look and hopefully it will be what we're after.

**shiver** · 31-Jan-2006, 03:03 PM

I now have a way of doing this very effectively by the use of a CUSTOMVAR (section name) and a minor edit to the Yahoo style JS.

I don't want to upset any one by posting it here, but please get in touch and I'll get back to you.

Or if you guys don't mind I'm happy to throw it up for all, its actually very simple.

**Folk** · 14-Mar-2006, 12:39 AM

Originally posted by shiver

I now have a way of doing this very effectively by the use of a CUSTOMVAR (section name) and a minor edit to the Yahoo style JS.

I don't want to upset any one by posting it here, but please get in touch and I'll get back to you.

Or if you guys don't mind I'm happy to throw it up for all, its actually very simple.

Hi,
Did this method just include child sections or did it also include all sections within the particular section even if you were in a 'child section'?

Folk

**NormanRouxel** · 14-Mar-2006, 02:10 AM

I'm using the YahooSections type menu and would like to have the top level section button to be highlighted when in the section or sub sections there of.

Here's my replacement for the YahooSections code that detects whether you're in a particular section (or it's child) when writing out the top-level names.

This demo just places an "X" against the current active top-level item. This code is for guidance only. It won't work (although probably is easy to amend) for Business logged-in customers or pages returned via the Search Highligh script.

Code:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
thispage = location.pathname.replace(/.*acatalog\//,'');  // get the page name part of URL

function inchildsection(sect){		// return whether this page or it's children match current page
  if ( unescape(sect.sURL.replace(/.*SECTIONID=(.*)&NOLOGIN=.*/,"$1")) == thispage ) return true;
  if ( sect.pChild )					  // if child sections 
    {
    for ( var i=1; i <= sect.pChild.length; i++ )	  // try all children
      { 
      if ( inchildsection(sect.pChild[i]) ) return true;  // recursively
      }
    return false;
    }
  return false; 
}

function YahooSections(ar)
{
var strIDs = '';
for (var i=1;i<=ar.length;i++)
  {
  if (ar[i].sURL != null)
    {
    var highlight = inchildsection(ar[i]);		// see if we're in this page or child
    if ( highlight ) strIDs += 'X ';			// if so mark the section name
    strIDs += '<a href="' + ar[i].sURL + '"><span class="actxxsmall"><b><font color="NETQUOTEVAR:FGCOLORCSS">' + ar[i].sName + '</font></b></span></a><br>';
      {
      if (ar[i].pChild)
        {
        for (var j=1;j<=ar[i].pChild.length;j++)
          {
          if (ar[i].pChild[j].sURL != null)
            {
            strIDs += '<a href="' + ar[i].pChild[j].sURL + '"><span class="actxxsmall"><font color="NETQUOTEVAR:FGCOLORCSS">' + ar[i].pChild[j].sName + '</font></span></a><br>';
            }
          }
        }
      }
    strIDs += '<br>'
    }
  }
return strIDs
}//-->
</SCRIPT>

Note that the inchildsection routine recursively scans all child sections of each top-level until it finds a match.

**Folk** · 14-Mar-2006, 08:16 AM

Norman, is this the code to display this on the page?

<div align="left"><script language=Javascript1.2>
document.write(YahooSections(section_tree))
</script>

Does it do what im after, ie display the peer sections, ie when i'm in a child section i just want to be able to see other similar level sections in that parent section in the left hand bar.?

Thanks

**shiver** · 14-Mar-2006, 09:34 AM

Hi Folk,

The site using the the moded menu is at http://www.shhh-itsourlittlesecret.co.uk please be aware it does have adult products.

If it's what your after let me know and I'll forward you the code, you will need to pop a custom var containing the section name in to the sub-section to show in the menu (very simple).

Norman's example may pull out the section/sub-section relationship automatically.

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