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[jubbbird]

My most recent Support communitcation has resulted in my sending them a copy of my custom theme (based on BusinessCSS and exhibiting the successfull use of TOPLEVELSECTIONSTOP on Act_Primary.html). The guy who spoke to me asked for it so he could find out what the problem was, implying that he could find something to alter- possibly in one of the config files - that would enable the desired variables in that theme.

Its a little odd that you didn't see it working in BusinessCSS drounding :/ Although I based my theme on BusinessCSS, theres no compelling reason to keep any particular link to that theme - my theme is totally different. I'd be just as happy starting with a new theme in which it DOES work and just overwriting my templates again. However if it appears that once in a while I'll find something that doesnt work, it would be far more conveniant to know how to MAKE things work in any theme.

[jubbbird]

Im stunned - no explaination - its sunddenly started working.

I did what I did before, copied the exact code from primary to brochureprimary and its produced the top level section list on the home page. I can't believe it. I hope it wasn't an innocent mistake :/

I'm intrigued as to why some themes don't allow it as has been confirmed by other people. One thing that might be related is that I have since installed Actinic Demo on another machine (my laptop, im working away from home this week) and its worked on here. Ill try again at home next week...

[Duncan Rounding]

...I did what I did before, copied the exact code from primary to brochureprimary and its produced the top level section list on the home page...

What code are you referring to? - just the NQV reference or more?

The BusinessCSS theme's Act_Primary doesn't contain the NQV TOPLEVELSECTIONSTOP. If you look in:
C:\Program Files\Actinic v7\Formats\Themes\BusinessCSS\Act_Primary.html the NQV is not there.

When I tried this out earlier I copied it in to both the Act_Primary and Act_BrochurePrimary templates.

[jubbbird]

Aside from the fact that I KNOW I based my theme on BusinessCSS, I have no idea what is actually left to show for it. For that reason I don't know what has caused it to suddenly work.

However when I made my theme I decided to make use of TOPLEVELSECTIONSTOP to get my main section list. Until just about 30 minutes ago it hasonly worked in primary.html, and NOT in brochureprimary. I specifically tried exactly the same code in brochureprimary to no avail, but suddenly having tried again for no particular reason aside from bordom - its working.

If it wasnt for someone mentioning above that it doesnt work in the TwentyFour7 theme, and the support guys acknowledging that it doesnt work in SOME themes, I would now assume that all along I had simply made a stupid but inncoent mistake - a typo if I hadn't copied and pasted it...

I now appear to have the top level section list on my home page without the need to use Javascript. With that I hypothesise that the only reason to use the javascript solution (aside from wanting the section list on a page not on the main site/domain) is to get yourself a menu that includes the complete section tree (including subsections). If it doesnt work for a given theme, its probably possible to convince it to anyway - im hoping support will tell me how shortly.