Support

Current behavior:
Existing Wild Apricot templates all use a 'vertical' menu - placed on the left side of the web page.
We are getting more and more requests for 'horizontal' menus - the ones which are stretched at the top of your webpage below the header.

Workaround:
Several brave souls have attempted to implement horizontal menu on their own using CSS Customization - and were able to achieve a pretty decent look for the public/member view of the website. However, they all have faced a big hurdle in maintaining the administrator functionality for the menu - viewing the full page tree, renaming and moving the pages.
We have a workaround described on our help site, but it has a number of limitations
See http://help.wildapricot.com/display/DOC/Horizontal+menu

Desired behavior:
A way to provide a proper horizontal menu with dynamically dropping down submenu.

Notes:
To properly implement horizontal menu we need to address two big things:
1) Enable 'dynamic' submenu - the one which drops down on mouse over (vs. our current implementation when you have to click on the page to load it and see its children pages)
2) Change the administration backend functionality for renaming and moving pages. Our current thinking is to separate it from page editing into a separate screen.

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

I've got a horizontal work-around in place.

I need friendly urls and polls/voting more than I need horizontal menu enhancements.

That said, I've got the submenus all turned off because I do not like the way they currently work (on either the vertical or horizontal option).  I definitely think "dynamic", as you describe it to be a better solution for both vertical and horizontal menus.  I would probably turn the submenus back on if dynamic menus were implemented - at least to try them out - but we also use so many indexes it may just be a mess regardless.

As far as the renaming/moving pages, I like the idea of moving it to a separate screen - however it really doesn't matter to me.  I will be playing with the information given about Horizontal Menus in the above link once I can get back into my CSS.  I think if I just move the page over it won't be an issue.  Right now, I just have to copy the HTML out, make a blank page to make any fixes, and copy the HTML back in.  Since I don't see much changes in the beginning of the list where it is an issue, I don't see it as a big deal either way.

Yes, please for the horizontal menu with drop downs!!!

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