nav bar highlighting wrong buttons

[Steve Wood]

This is really throwing me. I have a navigation bar with css set to highlight the button that is currently pressed. So if (on my graphic below) HUSBAND is selected, that button is highlighted. All buttons work perfectly - except the three most recently added buttons. That is, any new nodes I add do not properly highlight when the button is selected. There are three buttons with two different types of failures:

General button - does not highlight when pressed
Attorney button - actually highlights the Husband button when pressed
Notes / Deeds - does not highlight when pressed

I've done all the obvious tests - changing the CSS, adding/removing/moving nodes, changing node parameters (button highlight rules, etc.). In terms of the HTML and Xbasic tabs in the Nav System Builder, I see no difference between buttons that work, and the ones that fail.

[Steve Wood]

Resolved - I had changed the names of the grid component the nav bar was pointing to. I had updated the nav itself, but there is code in the A5W page that tell it which component should render the button 'pressed'. In this case, I removed, then reinserted the nav component.

[Peter.Greulich]

there is code in the A5W page that tell it which component should render the button 'pressed'.

Steve, what's that code? I'm having a similar problem.



P.S. Very professional looking button scheme.

[Steve Wood]

Like I said, I took the uninformed way out and re-inserted the nav component. But I am sure it is the following in the A5W file:

with tmpl_tr_nav
location = ""
componentName = "tr_nav"
style_name = "ATS"
end with

Look at your "location =" tag. It probably says something other than the name of the a5w page you are opening with that button. Change it to just null like above and it will highlight when pressed, regardless of what page you are opening...I think.

[JerryBrightbill]

To highlight a specific tab with a page open, the

location=

must contain the text from the navigation tab you want to show highlighted. For example, using your tabs, if you have a page open and want to show the 'Cash/Securities' tab highlighted, the override code on the page would look like this

with tmpl_tr_nav
	location = "Cash/Securities"
	componentName = "tr_nav"
	style_name = "ATS"
end with

If location="", then no tab will be highlighted.

[Peter.Greulich]

Look at your "location =" tag. It probably says something other than the name of the a5w page you are opening with that button.

In my case, every page has the same button highlighted, but there is no "location" tag. I'll try inserting one. Thanks!

[Steve Wood]

Peter, to do it 'right' for at least one component, go to the a5w page and remove the navigation component, save the page, and then reinsert the nav component. One of the options when you insert the nav is 'selected page'. Set that to the page that the button points to. That will put in the proper code, which you can then mimic. Jerry's correct, you have to have the name such as:

location = "Cash/Securities"

(Although I'm pretty sure the location of my cash/securities is 'elsewhere_undefined'.)

[Peter.Greulich]

Ok, thanks for the tip. I think that was the answer I was rooting around for.