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Customising SharePoint (MOSS) Global Navigation drop down levels on system pages

I recently discovered how to increase the number of drop down levels displayed on the SharePoint global navigation menu at Heather Solomon's site http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/archive/2007/05/15/SharePoint-Tip--How-to-Activate-the-Drop-Down-Menu.aspx

I haven't been as lucky in determining how I might do the same for system pages (_layouts/) whose look and feel is controlled by the APPLICATION.MASTER page.

I opened this in SPD and could not find the same MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels= value as shown in the code snippet below.

Is there a way I can do what I'm trying to do here, and if so, how?

<SharePoint:AspMenu
	  ID="TopNavigationMenu"
	  Runat="server"
	  DataSourceID="topSiteMap"
	  EnableViewState="false"
	  AccessKey="<%$Resources:wss,navigation_accesskey%>"
	  Orientation="Horizontal"
	  StaticDisplayLevels="2"
	  MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="3"
	  DynamicHorizontalOffset="0"
	  StaticPopoutImageUrl="/_layouts/images/menudark.gif"
	  StaticPopoutImageTextFormatString=""
	  DynamicHoverStyle-BackColor="#CBE3F0"
	  SkipLinkText=""
	  StaticSubMenuIndent="0"
	  CssClass="ms-topNavContainer"><StaticMenuStyle/><StaticMenuItemStyle CssClass="ms-topnav"

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mccarthybri

for the system masterpage just go into the site collection or the site page and going site actions, site settings, under look adn feel goto master pages and ensure the system page i drawing the same default master andyou should be good

mccarthybri

okay i was wrong. disreguard this one

mccarthybri

http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_yeager/archive/2007/07/05/customizing-the-application-master-in-sharepoint-2007.aspx

here is a good write up on app masters.

the application masters pges that are created dont lend themselves to a subsite there things like dropdowns dont make sense to there, and that is why such scripting is not in the masterpage. Unless somecan tell me differant.

Hope this helps

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drewberrylicious

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Thanks all for your comments.

I have seen the idea of renaming the layouts folder previously.

This however doesn't answer my key question which is how I can get second, third, forth etc level links/sites to display.

The OOTB application master page displays second level subsites (if show subsites option is enabled on each site), but that's as far is it goes...I figure there should logically be a way to extend this???

drewberrylicious

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Unfortunately I didn't find the solution I wanted here, but accepted the limitation of the application master pages.