The Project navigational menu (I call it a NavMenu internally) is currently set up to be static. Whenever you visit a project's front page, you are "locked in" to that project wherever else you go on the site. To lock another project's NavMenu on to the left sidebar in place of the current one, you simply visit its project front page.
Some people would prefer that menu to react dynamically to whatever content is currently being viewed. Thus, if you go to Project A's forum directly from a shortcut or link or the What's New section, the NavMenu will reflect that project's links and image.
 August 22, 2007 - 7:28pm | Since I prefer the first, and others may prefer the second, I provided
an option for you, the user. Simply go to your profile and click
"Edit." A submenu shows two options... select "Information" and you'll
find a checkbox that says "Dynamic Project NavMenu" with an explanation
of what checking it will mean. Try it out and see which way you
prefer. 3. We wear sungoggles during the day. Not because the sun affects our
vision, but when you're cool like us the sun shines all the time. |
 August 22, 2007 - 9:14pm | Is there no way to navigate directly to your other projects from that Nav menu? Like scrolling arrows (< >). I currently keep windows open for each project. I don't know if that would change, but it might keep one from developing the habit to begin with, if it causes any informational or bandwidth problems. Also, if it were standard for every page (main page, support page, forums page), not just project pages. EDIT: Without a scrolling option or being accessable from other areas of the site, the box is fairly superfluous now that there's a header in the documents menu and navigational tabs at top. |
August 22, 2007 - 9:14pm | What I could do is maybe give you a combobox populated with those projects to which you've subscribed, and let you bounce around at will. Or I could give you arrows too but you'd not know which project a right-arrow will take you to so you'll probably click one direction or the other over and over until the project you wanna see would come up. However, unless I want more client-side JavaScript, I'd have to refresh the screen with each arrowclick. Nasty, that... and perhaps it would take more bandwidth than the alternatives. 3. We wear sungoggles during the day. Not because the sun affects our
vision, but when you're cool like us the sun shines all the time. |
August 22, 2007 - 9:23pm | Well, regarding the scroll arrows, I was thinking of a dynamic scroller that you click right or left and the picture changes, then you click the picture for the project you want to go to. Making a dropdown box, instead, with the project names in it is fine too and certainly takes less programming. |
