I just notice that I still have problems with Drupal menus. I had hoped that my last revelation (http://www.mauricemengel.de/content/drupal-taxonomy-menus) had solved all possible problems. But apparently I need a little more insight in Drupal's menu system and the trail.

On one of my sites (http://www.musikethnologie.org), I want to have secondary and tertiary level menu in the primary menu or - at least - related to it. The theme that I use doesn't allow me to use suckerfish etc. So I found the menu block module which should allow me to implement an additional block with further levels of menus.

I want to use it on News and on Projects. Both are currently part of the navigation menu on the right side.  This works, but looks unintuitively. In the navigation menu I have the possibility to use hierarchy. If Menu Blocks works like I want it to work, the difference would not be so big, only that the top level term News and Projects would appear in Primary Menu and the new block on the right bar where now the navigation menu is. More or less.

So, I move the menu terms "News" and "Project" to the primary menu. This has the expected result. The two terms appear in the menu, but there is no way to access the menu levels below that.

I activate Menu Block and configure it the way I think it should be configured. As a result, the new block shows up correctly, but only on one page (Project). With News, the new menu block doesn't show up at all.

Well, this looks like a familiar problem. News items are indexed with taxonomy terms, i.e. I get to them not as proper nodes, but by calling taxonomy/term/1 or so. The only page where it works is a drupal page that I have created manually and which lists my projects. (Not very nice, I know. I will change it one of these days by correcting the taxonomy terms.)

Now where is the problem exactly? How can drupal know what the subordinate pages of News are? Why does it work with normal Navigate menu? It seems that I have to specify links between every news term and active menu trail

taxonomy

news --> links to respective menu item

news_type_1 --> news

news_type_2 --> news

so far so good. Do I also have to change the automatic path?

I try menu trails and node breadcrumb. I like the last one better, but I have no time. So write these notes here and leave it until next weekend or so.