[TYPO3] submenus not show up for special HMENU

[Bing Du]

>> I want to use the following settings in the extension template to
>> override the menu defined in the master template.
>>
>> ==
>> page.10.subparts.contentcontainer.subparts.left.10 = HMENU
>> page.10.subparts.contentcontainer.subparts.left.10.special = directory
>> page.10.subparts.contentcontainer.subparts.left.10.special.value =
>> 3574
>>
>> page.10.subparts.contentcontainer.subparts.left.10 {
>>     1 = TMENU
>>     1 {
>>      }
>>      2 < .1
>>      3 < .1
>>      4 < .1
>>      5 < .1
>> }
>> ==
>>
>> Part of the page tree is like:
>>
>> blahblah
>> subsite  (page id 3574)
>>   page1
>>     page1.1
>>   page2
>> blah
>>
>> Page1 and page2 show up fine in the menu.  But clicking page1 doesn't
>> show page1.1 which is not hidden.  I noticed TSref says,
>>
>> "NOTE: Don't set .entryLevel for a HMENU when using this option! Also
>> be aware that this selects pages for the first level in the menu.
>> Submenus by menuPbjects 2+ will be created as usual."
>>
>> How should I understand 'Submenus by menuPbjects 2+ will be created as
>> usual.' to get the submenus show up?
>
> If you are using "special=list" or "special=directory", submenus won't
> expand automatically when you click on the link to their parent page.
> These "special" variants of HMENU are only for special purposes (i.e. a
> meta-navigation as the footer of a page) and therefor the only thing you
> can
> do is to set "expAll=1" to have all of the submenus expanded by default.
>
> If you want automatically expanding submenus you have to switch to
> entryLevel instead of special, which is a good idea anyway since the CSV
> list of IDs you will be using with special is not completely dynamic.

Thanks much for the information, Joey.  Using entryLevel solved my problem.

Bing