• Templating and Integration Guide
  • Part 1: Concepts
    • The "Everything is Content" Paradigm
      • Content items are objects with properties that correspond to a type
      • Nodes are stored in workspaces, organized in trees
    • The rendering flow
      • To render a node, you need a view
      • To render a page, you need a template
    • Modules are packages used to deploy “code” into Jahia
    • The Jahia actors
      • Content flow
  • Part 2: Modules
    • What is a module?
    • Module type
    • Module creation
    • Anatomy of a module
    • Adding classes and Jars in modules
    • Spring files
  • Part 3: Templates and Studio
    • Introduction to templates
    • Studio
      • Studio overview
    • Creating a template-set
      • Using the Maven archetype
      • Using Eclipse
      • Using Jahia Studio
      • Update the Maven project when templates are modified in the Studio
    • Building templates
      • There are 3 different kind of templates
      • Main Resource and template resolution
      • Areas in detail
      • Content templates in details
      • Bound Components
    • CSS style sheets and design
      • Preparing your stylesheet
      • Including stylesheets in templates
      • Managing different stylesheets depending on the context
      • Print friendly CSS
      • CSS frameworks and handmade XHTML
    • Themes
      • How it works
    • Skins
      • Creating skins
      • Skin rendering
  • Part 4: Content Definitions and Views
    • Definitons
      • NodeType
      • Namespaces
      • Supertypes
      • Options
      • Node Type properties
      • Input masks
      • Default values
      • Initializers
      • Validators
      • Abstract types
      • In practice: create the node type definition for dogs
    • Views
      • NodeType folders
      • Output formats
      • Default view
      • Other views
      • Modules versus Components
      • Module packaging and deployement
    • Managing URLs in scripts
    • Managing lists
      • Summary for a simple list
      • Using list views
    • Managing and customizing navigation menus
      • Menu Rendering
      • Customization
  • Part 5: Advanced Techniques
    • Search and queries
      • Full text queries using search tag libraries
      • Queries
      • In practice: creating a custom search component
    • Forms
      • Principles
      • Form data parameters
      • In practice: Transform a custom HTML form into a Jahia valid form step by step
    • Macros
      • Macro implementation languages
      • Typical usage
    • Caches
  • Part 6: Setting up an integration environment
    • Software Requirements
    • Maven configuration for Eclipse IDE
    • Maven External Configuration
    • Creating a template set
  • Part 7: Step by step integration
    • Cutting of the mockup
    • Integration of the Base
    • CSS / Javascript integration
    • Creating the content zones
  • Further reading and resources

Managing and customizing navigation menus

Basically, in Jahia, menus are created in two major steps.

1. In the studio drop and configure a menu component in your template.
2. In edit mode add a menu item (such as pages or links) and, if needed, select the menu where it should appear.

We will now go into the details of these two steps, in order to illustrate how this may be achieved. So let’s create a menu for your site, based on the out-of-the-box menus.

1. In the Studio, drag and drop a menu (Navigation menu) in your page

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2. Properties to set in the form:
   1. Baseline node: defines the root node of the menu, it is the level 0 of your menu
   2. Max depth: sets how deep the menu will display items.
   3. Start level: sets the level the menu have to start display items
   4. View of the menu items: defines the view used to display menu items (menuElement is the default)
   5. Style that surround the menu: defines the class around the menu. This style must be declared in your CSS file
   6. Unique <div> ID defined in the page to reference this menu: defines the id around the menu
3. Add items from edit mode. When you create one of the following:
   1. Pages
   2. External link
   3. Internal links
   4. Menu labels

Jahia creates automatically a menu entry. When created, an entry will appear in all menus (if several menus exist) present in the page that matches the menu levels previously defined in the studio. If you want the items to only be displayed in certain menus, you need to check the “Select this option if you want to specify the menu where this item should appear”, then select the menus you want.