Navbar Links Problems

[InSite]

Hello all, and thanks for any help you can provide with this problem I'm having.

I (still) use vBulletin Advanced as my website portal, which unfortunately is not supported anymore. On pages generated by vBA I'm having a strange problem with the navbar submenu links. On all except the last page listed, the submenu links appear to be overwriting themselves several times, stacked, giving the appearance of bold text. On the last page however, no matter which page I choose to display last, the submenus display correctly (as they do on the main Forums page).

Here are some screenshots to help describe the problem:



Here the second menu appears to be bold. However if I copy and paste the text from this area, I get the following:

Home
About Forum Actions Forum Settings Join
Forum
Chat
Live Streams
Videos
About Forum Actions Forum Settings Join
Articles
About Forum Actions Forum Settings Join
Links
About Forum Actions Forum Settings Join

And this is what the last page will look like. If I change the order of the pages in vBA, whichever is last displays correctly:



Also, as a more general question, is there an easy way to display the default forum submenu links on external pages other than reentering them in Navigation Manager for every single page? It's very frustrating! I'd prefer to have the navbar and subnav menus disabled in vBA and use Navigation Manager, but this doesn't seem to work even when I declare the THIS_SCRIPT value.

Thanks again, much appreciated!

[InSite]

Noone else has come across this? It happens on a default style too.

Does anyone know where vBA may loop the menu from? Any indication where to look?

Also does anyone know how to add these links across other scripts and pages on my website? Some mods create whole new pages using the header and footer, but the sub menu links aren't included for some reason.

Thanks

[Dragonsys]

Originally Posted by InSite

Noone else has come across this? It happens on a default style too.

Does anyone know where vBA may loop the menu from? Any indication where to look?

Also does anyone know how to add these links across other scripts and pages on my website? Some mods create whole new pages using the header and footer, but the sub menu links aren't included for some reason.

Thanks

it does not happen on any of my sites running CMPS.
As for other pages, those links are specific to the page. You can copy them to other pages via the Nav Manager in the ACP.

[InSite]

Thanks for the reply

Originally Posted by Dragonsys

it does not happen on any of my sites running CMPS.
As for other pages, those links are specific to the page. You can copy them to other pages via the Nav Manager in the ACP.

[S]Is CMPS the official vBulletin release? If so, I don't have access to that as I bought my vBulletin 4 license before it was released. I'm therefore using vBulletin Advanced, which is no longer supported by the developer.[/S]

Strange, I get this on a default installation and style with the latest vBulletin / vBA releases. Something must be causing a loop for the nav sub links menu for each additional page I have on my portal.

For the other pages, is there a quicker way to copy all the nav links from the forums to other pages, or do I have to recreate them all one at a time for each new page?

[Dragonsys]

There is a Nav Manager Enhancement mod around here somewhere, it might be able to copy those links, or you can do it from within the Database itself.

Have you made any changes to CMPS to make it display the subnav menu on all pages? (such as mentioned in this thread - http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/show...138#post201138)

[InSite]

No template modifications to vBA - all the templates are default.

[Dragonsys]

hmmm, not sure then, as I have never seen this issue. You can see examples of my sites using CMPS here: Site 1 & Site 2

Let me know if you see the same thing on these sites.

[InSite]

Originally Posted by Dragonsys

hmmm, not sure then, as I have never seen this issue. You can see examples of my sites using CMPS here: Site 1 & Site 2

Let me know if you see the same thing on these sites.

Thanks so much for your help with this

It wouldn't show up on either of these sites. For site 1 you are not using the default forum links, and on site 2 you only have 1 portal page. It doesn't show up on the *last* portal page, which for you would be your first.

What seems to be happening is that the entire sub menu links is loading for every link, but only being displayed for the selected tab. But it is still there as selectable text. Even on your site 2 for example, if you select the top text you get this:

=============
HOME
New PostsFAQCalendarCommunity Forum Actions Quick Links
WHAT'S NEW?
FORUMS
FACEBOOK
MMO Crossroads Forums - Powered by vBulletinLOG IN REGISTER
=============

So I assume if you had a second vBA page called Links, you'd see something like this:

=============
HOME
New PostsFAQCalendarCommunity Forum Actions Quick Links
WHAT'S NEW?
FORUMS
FACEBOOK
MMO Crossroads Forums - Powered by vBulletinLOG IN REGISTER
LINKS
New PostsFAQCalendarCommunity Forum Actions Quick Links
=============

And the HOME and LINKS sub menus would write on top of each other (maybe because they share the same THIS_SCRIPT). So I wonder if this is a CSS issue?

Do you have a site that uses the default forum links and has more than one vBA page?

[Dragonsys]

true, I did customize the NavBar a lot on the first site. Let me install CMPS on my dev site tonight, and see if I can duplicate this.

[InSite]

Thanks so much - I really appreciate the help