[MSITE-420] Parent project site descriptor menu options always a link back to parent site

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 2.0-beta-5, 2.0-beta-6, 2.0-beta-7, 2.0, 2.0.1
• Component/s: doxia integration, inheritance
• Environment: Using maven 2.0.9 - and all versions of the site plugin all the way back to 2.0-beta-5.
• Assignee: Lukas Theussl
• Reporter: EJ Ciramella
• Created: 31/Jul/09 07:41
• Updated: 07/Apr/15 18:15
• Resolved: 19/Dec/10 09:54

Description

I'd like to have a parent project define what items are in a given menu for all child projects and let the child projects define the contents of those links (this doesn't work).

In the documentation for the site plugin here:

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-site-plugin/examples/sitedescriptor.html

There is a bit in there about how to get a parent project site descriptor to be inherited by a child project by using the following:

<menu name="My Inherited Menu" inherit="top">

This is great if you want the child project to always link back to the parent project's links/pages for each menu option.

Doxia however shows this is configurable:

http://maven.apache.org/doxia/doxia-sitetools-1.0.x/doxia-decoration-model/decoration.html#class_menu

inheritAsRef - If this is a reference, setting true means that it will be populated in the project, whereas if it is false, it is populated in the parent and then inherited. The default value is false.

This property currently doesn't work.

Issue Links

• relates to: MSITE-159 Absolute URI rendered as relative URI if absolute URI related to domain of POM URI