Help! how to build menu

[Diego]

undefinedundefined I'm trying to build a menu like the on the isilo display sample ipaq pocket pc. Any idea how to do it? or what type of program do I need to build it? Help.

[Voltage Spike]

The menus in the display sample are normal HTML menus (see the documentation for SELECT). The only "gotcha" is that you must use a Javascript function called "GoURLValue" for menus which change the URL.

The easiest way to reproduce such menus is to look at the source code of the display sample and model your web page after it.

[Diego]

what about the hyperlink, how can I do it. I'm using frontpage!

and thank you for the answer!

[Voltage Spike]

If by "hyperlink" you mean normal, non-menu links, then Frontpage will produce the appropriate HTML for iSilo.

If by "hyperlink" you mean menu links, then you will probably need to rename the Javascript function (for example, by a global search-and-replace) to "GoURLValue".

Note that I am not familiar with Frontpage, so I cannot offer more specific help.

[RunningUtes]

I am creating menus for a document of test questions. There are about 2,000 questions in groups of 50 for each test.
This is a sample of what I have in the html...

 Test 1<select onchange=GoURLValue(this);>
 <option value="1.htm" selected>1</option>
 <option value="2.htm">2</option>
 <option value="3.htm">3</option>
 <option value="4.htm">4</option>
 ...
 <option value="50.htm">50</option>
</select>

This works great, when there are only a few menus, but I want to list all the tests and have the menu go to the correct question. This means that there are 40 copies of the above code on a page for a total of 2,000 links. I end up with menus that donot list any text. What are the limitations to isilox on menu or link creation?
~ RunningUtes at g m a i l dot com

[iSilo]

Each individual menu can theoretically have up to several thousand items and you can theoretically have up to several thousand individual menus, so it is possible that there is a bug in iSiloX's or iSilo's menu processing. Would you be able to either post the source HTML files as a zip or if the content should be kept confidential, send them as a file attachment to so that we can reproduce the problem to determine the cause and address the issue?

[RunningUtes]

Here are a few screen shots of the problem. The difference is that I reduced the links count from 1 to 0, just to get the menu page.


Screen01 is the problem. Link depth is 1, and Isilox gathers all 2,000 html pages.
Screen02 is with link depth to 0. This is what the page should look like.
Screen03 shows the drop down menus with link depth 0.
Screen04 shows the drop down menu with link depth set to 0. As you can see, the menus do not show any text and the page up/down buttons are placed at the top of the page.

[iSilo]

Thanks for the screen shots.

Would you be able to either post the source HTML files as a zip or if the content should be kept confidential, send them as a file attachment to so that we can reproduce the problem to determine the cause and address the issue?

[semi]

a little trick to make multiple dropdown menus on the same page

<select onchange="GoURLValue(this);" name="1" title="first line">
<option value="document.htm#1_link">first line</option>
<option value="document.htm#2_link">second line</option>
<option value="document.htm#3_link">third line</option>
<option value="document.htm#4_link">fourth line</option>
<option value="document.htm#5_link">fifth line</option>
</select>

<select onchange="GoURLValue(this);" name="2" title="first line">
<option value="document.htm#6_link">first line</option>
<option value="document.htm#7_link">second line</option>
<option value="document.htm#8_link">third line</option>
<option value="document.htm#9_link">fourth line</option>
<option value="document.htm#10_link">fifth line</option>
</select>
...etc...

- include as many as you need (make sure you set "name" and "title" attributes in <select> tag accordingly)
- sometimes isilo leaves the first line in dropdown menu empty (bug?), especially if you need to build complex summary/navigation with bookmark links wrapped in those menus; to avoid blank space, add the name of your link in "title" attribute
- works perfectly in isilo 4.05 PPC