NorMenu V2.17 readme.txt This program is capable of creating a set of cascading drop down menus for navigating all the sections from an Actinic V3, V4 or V5 site. This uses the javascript HV Menu system from:- http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/hvmenu/index.htm This is an excellent cascading menu system that works in most major browsers. This program is for HV Menu V5.41 which is free for commercial and non-commercial use. I've another version for the current 8.2 HV Menu system but this appears to be for non-commercial use only. Installation: Just unzip into a temp folder and run setup.exe. This will install into C:\Program Files\NorMenu. Go there and run normenutest.htm for a demo. If you're connected to the 'net the links will work. How it works: The program reads the Actinic database Catalog Sections table and builds a section list. This list is then converted into the necessary javascript to produce normenu_var.js. A reference to this script along with the core javascript program (normenu_com.js) should be included on pages that you want the menu to appear on. If these include lines are added to Act_Primary.html then the menu will appear on all your catalog pages. NorMenu Configuration Parameters: Version Set to 3, 4 or 5 for Catalog 3, 4, 5 or 6. (the v3 setting will probably work but I've no V3 to test on) CatalogName ReadOnly. This will be preset with your catalog name if version < 5. Catalog ReadOnly. Shows the database alias for the selected version of Catalog OutputFile Readonly. This is the javascript file that will be created. SingleRoot Checkbox. You can have the menu start with a single item (text or image) or have the menu start with a list of your base level sections. SingleRootText If single root is checked this is the code that will start the menu. You can use an image or text here. SingleRootURL Leave blank if you want the Single Root to not be clickable. Alternatively enter URL for this link. e.g. http://www.mysite.com/navigationhelp.html LinkPrefix NorMenu will generate links that are relative to your sites acatalog folder. If you want absolute links (a good idea if you want navigation to work with pages served from the catalog scripts) then put the absolute path to your site here. e.g. /acatalog/ or http://www.mysite.com/acatalog/ - note that I don't use SSL so I'm not sure how this will work on secure sites, regarding the ` "Secure and Insecure items on this page" type of warning. First Level Width The width of the root level menu. Height Ditto for height. Sub Levels Width The width of cells in subsequent menu columns. Height Ditto for height. Further HV Menu Configuration: The default configuration works as supplied and can easily be fine tuned. For further configuration see config.htm, but read below for differences between this and the NorMenu way. If you're running in frames then install-frames.htm has relevent info. Demoing: Copy normenutest.htm from the NorMenu installation folder to your Site folder. Tinker with changes to the configuration. See changes by running normenutest.htm from your Site folder. Note:- The orginal normenutest.htm is best left unaltered in the installation folder as a reference should you break something. Adding this to a live Actinic System: Re-read above and follow instructions regarding production system. Briefly: Before running NorMenu- Copy the following files from the NorMenu install folder to your Site folder(s). tri.gif // little graphic triangles used for navigation tridown.gif trileft.gif normenutest.htm // a simple test to show your site structure. In NorMenu- Set Version as appropriate for your version of Actinic. Set LinkPrefix to the full URL of your live web-site acatalog folder (with trailing "/") In your Site1 folder in Act_Primary.html immediately after the
tag (make a backup copy first) add the following html (you could condense this to only 4 lines) (Catalog will detect the references to normenu_var.js and normenu_com.js and upload them for you.) Also in Act_Primary change the line (it's near the top)