{"id":2850,"date":"2014-08-12T08:05:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T08:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2014-08-12T08:05:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T08:05:25","slug":"mixed-up-menus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/2014\/08\/12\/mixed-up-menus\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed up menus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/08\/madmenus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2853 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 7px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/08\/madmenus-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/08\/madmenus-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/08\/madmenus.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An old problem that we hadn&#8217;t seen for a long time resurfaced on a couple of course sites last week and &#8211; as it is the season for NILE site preparation &#8211; may come back to haunt lecturers.<\/p>\n<p>When re-organising your menu on the left of the site, menu items (including dividers and subheadings) begin to refuse to stay where they have been moved to. The symptoms are sometimes not immediately obvious if only one menu item is changed, but as soon as the screen is refreshed the problem is clear.<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/08\/reorder-items.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2858\" style=\"margin: 7px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/08\/reorder-items-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/08\/reorder-items-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/08\/reorder-items.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the Blackboard system can end up with duplicate identifying numbers for menu items when items have been moved around and this can&#8217;t be corrected using the drag and drop editor.<\/p>\n<p>The solution is right in front of our eyes, but rarely used. There is an &#8216;up\/down arrow&#8217; icon at the top of the menu when in edit mode &#8211; this is the accessible method of re-ordering items. Select the item you want to move and use the arrows to position it. If you alter the &#8216;bad&#8217; items, this appears to fix the identifying number duplication so you may be able to revert to drag and drop once you&#8217;ve used this tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2014\/08\/madmenus.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An old problem that we hadn&#8217;t seen for a long time resurfaced on a couple of course sites last week and &#8211; as it is the season for NILE site preparation &#8211; may come back to haunt lecturers.<\/p>\n<p>When re-organising your menu on the left of the site, menu items (including dividers [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learntech-news","tag-nile"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mixed up menus - Learning Technology Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/2014\/08\/12\/mixed-up-menus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mixed up menus - Learning Technology Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; An old problem that we hadn&#8217;t seen for a long time resurfaced on a couple of course sites last week and &#8211; as it is the season for NILE site preparation &#8211; may come back to haunt lecturers. 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