[TYPO3-english] Odd menu behaviour: two identical templates, one working, one not

[Markus Klein]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: typo3-english-bounces at lists.typo3.org [mailto:typo3-english-bounces at lists.typo3.org] On Behalf Of Philipp Gampe
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 6:29 PM
> To: typo3-english at lists.typo3.org
> Subject: Re: [TYPO3-english] Odd menu behaviour: two identical templates, one working, one not
> 
> 
> You are missing the special property, e.g.
> temp.menu.special = directory
> temp.menu.special.value = <uid of the page that servers as starting point>.
> 
> I think it is pure luck that this works on the root page (or some special handling by TYPO3).
> 
AFAIK you don't need the special property at all, only if you "create menus that are not strictly reflecting the current page-structure", as TSref says.

Regards
Markus