Navbar Behavior for WD6

Scenario:
The active page is Page 2. The user passes the cursor over nav-button for Page 3 and the sub-menus appear.
However, if the a sub-menu is now clicked upon, nothing happens (Page 3 is not activated, nor is the link to the popup layer exeucted).

So my questions are these:
1- If the user is on Page Two, SHOULD the popup sub-menus of Page 3 work?
2- SHOULD the sub-menus of the button of Page 3 even appear when the user not on Page 3?

To me it seems the way the Navbar menus work are Atypical of how other menuing configurations work.

JohnC

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Originally Posted by jclements

1- If the user is on Page Two, SHOULD the popup sub-menus of Page 3 work?

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Yes.

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2- SHOULD the sub-menus of the button of Page 3 even appear when the user not on Page 3?

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Yes. They should appear irrelevant of where the user is.

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To me it seems the way the Navbar menus work are Atypical of how other menuing configurations work.

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It certainly is not expected to work atypically but if you have encountered such behaviour I would appreciate you providing the design file with the problem.
Thanks.

EDIT
Sorry, I've missed one point:

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However, if the a sub-menu is now clicked upon, nothing happens (Page 3 is not activated, nor is the link to the popup layer exeucted).

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So you have a links to pop-up layers in the page 3 sub-menu. Then this is a CORRECT behaviour.
To implement it the way you want, you have to create separate navbar for page3 which will have the submenu. Navbars on other pages should not have a submenu on the page3 button.

So another navbar on Page 3 would be the way to go in WD6 the way it currently works.


What I initially expected was, while on Page 2, that the submenus of the Page 3 button could be executed if clicked on. They do not in the attached file. If they did, then this, from my perspective, would be "typical". Perhaps my perspective is a "myopic" :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by jclements

that the submenus of the Page 3 button could be executed if clicked on. They do not in the attached file.

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Because you don't have the appropriate pop-up layers on page 2 to which they are linked! ;)

now see the logic in a new light.

I was thinking the function of the submenus would autoamatically trigger the function of its parent before executing.

I suppose that method could be a part of how WD6 would work but it would mean Page 3 would reload even if the user was already on Page 3 ... that would be a waste.

Thanks for letting me confuse myself :-O

Sure, no problem. Feel free to ask if you have any doubts again. :)