"Base Install" ??? DropMenu Question

Okay, I’m moving right along with this and installed the DropMenu Snippet (within a chunk) in the left column-

http://languagelearner.com

This installation is in the toplevel directory for the domain. Now, the first link in the menu is to "Base Install" which, if you look at the link, is to the home page. I have looked everywhere in the snippet for the place to change this anchor text to simply "Home" but cannot find it. Maybe I’m looking in the wrong place? Or maybe I’m missing a jargon definition that would enlighten me?

It uses either the Menu Title or the Page Title of the document itself. I think it uses Menu Title first, then if that’s empty uses the Page Title.

Susan beat me to it. I second that:

DropMenu uses the pagetitle of the document by default. Or, if the menu title has been set to something else, it should follow that. Try looking at your document data. It shouldn’t have anything to do with the code in the snippet.

FIXED! You folks are great!

And as usual, it was me looking for the right thing in the wrong place. I also have to train the client to fill out ALL those boxes when creating and editing docs!

Well, at least the ones you will be using. News and blog snippets tend to use the Summary field, and a lot of templates use the Long title for page headers. At the very least, a document needs the page title and if you’re using Friendly URLs an alias (although the system will make up an alias using the document ID, such as 1.html if you omit an alias)

Well, this particular client may try to "play" with things eventually, and only the deity upstairs knows what fields he’ll end up needing. I’m one to always abide by the acronym "CYA" when setting things up for others (which is why I really wish someone would answer my tinymce question. or should I say my tinymice question- must have been a freudian slip after the titmice occurence!)

This client has already pasted html code into the editor window. And I believe it was html code generated either by frontpage or word . . . can we say;

I’ve gotten panicky emails from a client after he manages to totally trash his home page news teaser by pasting code from a Word-generated html page. <sigh>

Ah yes . . . been there, done that, wore out the teeshirt AND the rags from it.

This guy is a sweetie to work with, he really is, much more so than some others. But no matter who it is, there’s always a certain frustration factor, especially when the client is halfway around the world and all communication is by email- language is so inexact. Sometimes I feel our role is more that of "teachers" than codesmiths. I really want to give him something that will work well for him, but trying to do so within the framework of his current skillset (and not really knowing what that skillset is!) is a guessing game.