Mura CMS - Linking a navigation item to another item

Question

I have a multilevel menu. I need it so that if the user clicks on a top level menu, they are taken to one of their children. For example..

- Products (top level)
-->Product 1 (sub)
-->Product 2 (sub)
-->Product 3 (sub)

I need to set it up so that if the user clicks on "Products", it opens "Product 1" instead of Products?

Any suggestions on how I could do this? I'm sure it could be done, but I just can't find anything on it, nor work it out..

Many Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I'm loving Mura more each day. Thanks to CatherineMM at the Mura Forums for the most simple way to achieve this:

"If you add "Go to First Child" (under System) in the Display Objects for Products, you should be all set!".

To do what my questions asks:

1. The top level Menu item (Products).
2. Go to "Layout & Objects".
3. Under 'Content Objects" select "System".
4. Then "Go to first child" and move into main content area.

That's it.. then when I click 'Products', it just opens 'Product1'.

Answer 2

If this menu is query driven, you might be able to use the group attribute of cfoutput. Something like this:

<cfoutput query="yourquery" group="TopLevel">
<a href="somewhere.cfm?somevariable="#fieldfromquery#">#TopLevel"</a>
<cfoutput>
<a href="somewhere.cfm?somevariable="#fieldfromquery#">#NextLevel"</a>
</cfoutput>
</cfoutput>

The group level and the first ungrouped level will be reading the same record in your query.