Re: Setting menu tab at runtime

On Oct 6, 2004, at 11:53 AM, Robert Smith wrote:

> Hello,
>     I've been using the struts menu for a few weeks now, and I like 
> what I
> see. I have a few questions if anyone can help:
>
> 1.  I have about 5 main tabs with a few dozen submenus (using the nice
> looking tabs menu). I need to add a "Home" menu to be the first main 
> tabbed
> menu item, but the location of it needs to be set upon the user 
> logging in
> (instead of being pulled from the menu-config.xml). In my login code (a
> servlet), how would I do this?

You can grab the repository from the servlet context, modify it and 
stuff it into the user's session.  This howto may help:

http://demo.raibledesigns.com/struts-menu/dynamicMenu.jsp

>
> 2. I'm using the TabbedMenuDisplayer, and changing tabs is slow. Has 
> anyone
> experienced this?

What do you mean - the JavaScript/CSS seems slow - or the pages are 
slow to load?

Matt



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