I was about ready to quit and go to Thailand for the rest of the year, when I figured out that if even one document does not have a menutitle set, then none of the documents listed will use the menutitle. Out of about two dozen documents, on one I had forgotten to set it...and the DropMenu snippet insisted on using the title for all of them, no matter what I did. So the lesson is, double-check your documents to make sure they all have a menutitle set!
Now that doesn’t seem right at all. Hmmm... perhaps a bug report.
Ryan Thrash, MODX Co-Founder
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