[Pro] How can I get the left-side menu items to scroll?

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Hello!
I’ve been using FW since 2014, and I want to share this good news before going to my problem: FW7 Pro is running reasonably well under Mac OS HIgh Sierra. On my computer, it started crashing more often under El Capitan, and still more so under Sierra, so I was really worried when the Ap Store kept up its reminders for me to upgrade to High Sierra. I was worried about FW7 Pro under High Sierra; but I’m working with two old sites that are changing pages and Publishing with no sweat (except the odd crash). So, congrats to your engineers!

Here’s my problem. Is there a way to get the items in the left-side menu of the FW Portfolio template to scroll? If you look at my example site page, you will see that one needs an unusually tall screen to avoid having a portion of the left-side menu being cut off and inaccessible.
Thanks in advance.

https://www.marketstatsanalytics.com/index_studies.html

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I don’t see a way to do it in the current layout. The issue is that the item is not set to a fixed height, and its parent is fixed and min-height 100%. If you stick to this template, and you have this many menu items, then you’re going to have this problem. Naturally on a smaller screen you won’t.

You can try adding this rule to your page’s head, which will allow scrolling inside the left column, but it’s not ideal.

Open the Page/HTML Markup dialog on the page (or ideally, on the master page for the page, so you don’t have to do this 20 times), and open the Before section.

Paste in the following:

<style>
#fixed-sidebar {
  overflow: scroll;
}
</style>

See how that works.

Walter

On Nov 30, 2017, at 12:31 PM, Leroy Stone email@hidden wrote:

Hello!
I’ve been using FW since 2014, and I want to share this good news before going to my problem: FW7 Pro is running reasonably well under Mac OS HIgh Sierra. On my computer, it started crashing more often under El Capitan, and still more so under Sierra, so I was really worried when the Ap Store kept up its reminders for me to upgrade to High Sierra. I was worried about FW7 Pro under High Sierra; but I’m working with two old sites that are changing pages and Publishing with no sweat (except the odd crash). So, congrats to your engineers!

Here’s my problem. Is there a way to get the items in the left-side menu of the FW Portfolio template to scroll? If you look at my example site page, you will see that one needs an unusually tall screen to avoid having a portion of the left-side menu being cut off and inaccessible.
Thanks in advance.

https://www.marketstatsanalytics.com/index_studies.html

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Thanks for your prompt response Walter. I appreciate your laying out the constraints for me to think about them, and also for providing a tip that might be helpful. Over the coming days I’m going to try some new approaches based on your tip.

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Just a follow-up, I realized I made a typo in this instruction. This should read ‘open the Before section’, not .

Walter

On Nov 30, 2017, at 9:05 PM, Walter Lee Davis email@hidden wrote:

Open the Page/HTML Markup dialog on the page (or ideally, on the master page for the page, so you don’t have to do this 20 times), and open the Before section.

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Thanks Walter.

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