Removing left nav from 1600 Template

I am working on template 1600 in iMIS 15.1.2.5901.

Customer would like to get rid of the left navigation. We have the drop down menus working on the horizontal menu, and consider the left nav redundant.

I tried editing the master page by removing the div and/or the panel for the left nav. In both cases iMIS threw an "unexpected error".

Any ideas on how to replace that panel with another content area?

 

Mike

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Hi Mike, The quick and dirty

Hi Mike,

The quick and dirty method I have been using is just to comment out the section rather than deleting it entirely.

In order to delete it properly you will probably need to delete the code and also stop that navigation area being used by turning it off in the website's settings (Manage Websites area).

 

Hope that helps,

Kieren

Is there more to this....

Paul Kool Data Manager Malachite Management, Inc 201 375 W 5th Ave Vancouver, B.C. Canada V5Y 1J6 paul@malachite-mgmt.com

Is there more to enabling drop-down menus than changing the Dynamic Display Levels?  I have upped the setting on the Primary Level for the Dynamic Display Levels from 0 to 1 to 2 to 3 and there is no change on the website.  Template 1600.

Paul

fixed

This just eventually started working.

Paul

Don't delete, just make it invisible.

Rather than removing the div or panel, just mark it invisible.  This way, the iMIS code can still find it and manipulate it, but the user won't see it.

You can do this in the master page by adding Visible="false", or through CSS by adding "display: none;" to the correct ID or class tag.  You might need to force a refresh before it will show in your browser.  (Ctrl-F5)
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