"controlling their display via context" What do you mean exactly by this? I'm assuming you don't mean a static context here (there'd be far too many if it was one context per room in my example), but a context object in the Context Module / CTools sense of the word.
Thanks, Rob On 03/22/2011 07:04 AM, Bill Fitzgerald wrote: > Is there a reason that having multiple menus, and controlling their > display via context, would not work here? > > On 3/21/11 5:55 PM, Rob Thorne wrote: >> I'm looking into a two tiered menu in a D7 application where the second >> level of the menu is standard, but the top level is different for every >> user. >> >> To make this concrete, suppose the user is a teacher at a school where >> the teacher uses multiple rooms, and needs to order materials for each >> room separately. Each teacher has a separate list of rooms, but the the >> pages we track -- class lists, crafts inventory, furniture... are the >> same for each room. >> >> So for teacher A, we might have a set of menus like this: >> >> * Room 220 >> o Class List >> o Crafts Inventory >> o Furniture >> * Room 221 >> o Class List >> o Crafts Inventory >> o Furniture >> >> and so on. It's clear to me how to do a loader function and menu >> handler for a link like 'teacher/%teacher/room/%/class_list', but I >> don't see how to populate the level of the menus for '220' and '221' in >> the 3 position. >> >> In Drupal 5, I used to use the !$may_cache argument for these sorts of >> things. I'm not arguing that this was efficient, but it did work. What >> hooks would I need to use in addition to hook_menu to make this work in >> Drupal 7? >> >> Thanks, >> Rob Thorne >> Torenware Networks >> >
