[Neos] Link state doesn't work on shortcuts in menus

[Bastian Waidelich]

On 05.01.15, at 14:55, Jürgen Kleiß wrote:

Hi Jürgen,

>> Maybe https://review.typo3.org/#/c/30848/ <https://review.typo3.org/#/c/30848/> can explain something about it.
>> Also https://forge.typo3.org/issues/55873 <https://forge.typo3.org/issues/55873> might explain some stuff.

> [...] I looked through the code and understood how
> it works. But i dont understand why this is implemented this way.
> Whats the benefit for not showing active and current states on a
> shortcut menu?

"active" and "current" states *are* evaluated for shortcut nodes. Well, 
"current" only in theory because a shortcut can never be the current 
node - they point to a target node (or URI) which will be current when 
you click on the shortcut.
When that target node is a child of the shortcut node, the shortcut node 
will get the "active" state (see 
http://neos.demo.typo3.org/en/metamenu/contribute.html for example).

(Personally I prefer *not* to create shortcut nodes pointing to child 
nodes in footer menus, because that leads to weird hierarchies and URLs. 
Instead, if you don't want the node to appear in other menus, just tick 
the "hiddenInIndex" checkbox).


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Bastian Waidelich