Upgrading from MenuMachine 1 to MenuMachine 2 (MM1, MM2)
Article Applies To:
MenuMachine 1 & 2
GoLive CS, CS2
Mac, Windows
Article ID: 000068
Category: Installation
Issue
After installing MenuMachine 2, the Objects Palette still shows the MenuMachine 1 object.
The MenuMachine Inspector has not changed after the upgrade.
Where are the new features of MenuMachine 2?
How do I make new menus with MenuMachine 2?
How do I edit old menus with MenuMachine 2?
Solution
MenuMachine 2 has a different interface to MenuMachine 1. If you installed MenuMachine 2 into a copy of GoLive which also has MenuMachine 1 installed, the MenuMachine 1 will be the same. You will also have the new MenuMachine 2 interface.
How do I use MenuMachine 2?
To see how to use the new MenuMachine 2 interface to build and edit menus, please download the MenuMachine 2 User Guide which has complete instructions.
Download MenuMachine 2 User Guide here:
http://www.menumachine.com/docs/
For a Quick Overview of how to get started with MenuMachine 2, go to this page:
http://www.menumachine.com/screenshots/index.html
How do I update menus created with MenuMachine 1?
MenuMachine 2 was completely rewritten from the ground up and places a new type of code in your pages. MenuMachine 2 is not simply an update of MenuMachine 1.
Unfortunately it is not possible to transfer MenuMachine 1 menus to a format MenuMachine 2 can read.
Why can't MenuMachine 1 menus be updated to MenuMachine 2?
Using MenuMachine 1, each page had an individual menu on it, and if you edited the menu (even if it was in a Template or Component) you needed to upload every page to your web server again.
Menumachine 2 uses a radically different way of handling the code.
MenuMachine 2 only places a small piece of code in your pages which then gets the menu information from another file for the browser to display. This small piece of code is very different to the code MenuMachine 1 places in your pages.
The menu code which is in each page of your site does not change whenever you edit the menu.
This means that with MenuMachine 2 menus, you no longer need to upload all your pages each time you make a change to the menu. This is a great advantage to speed up workflow if you need to make changes to the navigation throughout your site.
This is a great improvement, but it does mean that the old menu code does not relate to the new menu code and can't be updated to be read by MenuMachine 2. However, making menus with MenuMachine 2 is very fast and now there are a lot of new features which you can use in your new menus. Creating MenuMachine 2 menus will save you time whenever you need to make a changes to a menu.
How do I edit MenuMachine 1 menus?
If you need to edit menus created with MenuMachine 1, you must have MenuMachine 1 installed in your copy of GoLive.
MenuMachine 1 and MenuMachine 2 can be installed in the same copy of GoLive so you can work with old menus at the same time as creating and editing new menus.
You must install the very latest version of MenuMachine 1 which you can download here:
http://menumachine.com/mm1/download.php
Once MenuMachine 1 is installed, you can install the latest version of MenuMachine 2 which you can download here:
http://menumachine.com/download/index.php
Once both MenuMachine 1 and MenuMachine 2 are installed, you will be able to edit old menus using the normal MenuMachine 1 Inspector, as well as create new menus using the new MenuMachine 2 Object Palette and MenuMachine Editor.
You can even have MenuMachine 1 and MenuMachine 2 menus in the same site and on the same page.
Last updated: July 29, 2006
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