What does menu2.py look like? Does it have:
menu2 = [...]
Anthony
On Monday, April 29, 2013 6:57:49 PM UTC-4, greaneym wrote:
>
> Thanks, I was hoping this kind of thing would work, but I'm still doing
> something wrong.
>
>
> In models, I added menu2.py which contains a custom menu but is set up
> just like the default menu in layout.html, and
>
> in the layout.other.html I added
> {{=MENU(menu2)}}
>
>
>
> but when I run the view, I am getting a response.write error
> type 'exceptions.NameError'>(name 'menu2' is not defined)
>
>
> I tried adding it to the index.html and get the same error.
>
> What am I doing wrong? thanks Anthony
>
>
>
> On Monday, April 29, 2013 5:31:48 PM UTC-5, Anthony wrote:
>>
>> There's nothing special about response.menu -- it's just a list of
>> tuples. You can just as easily store the menu in any variable, so you can
>> create as many menus as you want and then convert them to HTML in the view
>> via the MENU() helper:
>>
>> In menu.py, or separately in menu1.py and menu2.py, or wherever:
>> menu1 = [...]
>> menu2 = [...]
>>
>> In the layout:
>> {{=MENU(menu1)}}
>> ...
>> {{=MENU(menu2)}}
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>> On Monday, April 29, 2013 6:19:12 PM UTC-4, greaneym wrote:
>>>
>>> Is it possible to have two menu.py files in models that associate with
>>> response.menu?
>>> I wanted to have an index file that has something like this,
>>>
>>> {{extend 'layout.html}}
>>> {{include layout.other.html}}
>>> {{include dashboard.html}}
>>>
>>> where layout.other.html has the menu2 for the dashboard. Is it possible
>>> to associate
>>> a second file, menu2.py with response.render and layout.other.html and
>>> how would one
>>> set this up? I've tried tinkering but get errors with response.write.
>>> Maybe it goes against the web2py structure and another setup should be
>>> used? I wanted
>>> both menus available on whatever page is loaded.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> Margaret
>>>
>>>
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