Drop menu not recognizing folder menutitle

I was under the impression since the default menu display when using dropmenu is pagetitle that if we included a menu title that the menu title would show up instead of the pagetitle but i haven’t had any luck making it happen is this by default or do we have to define it in the dropmenu ?

I also tried using $textOfLink using menutitle and that didn’t work either

the funny thing is it works on localhost just not on the server

update: it appears to only work with documents but not folders