Hi Wallies,

I am assuming that you mean that you have a main menu with 3 items on it, maybe something like this:

London - Glasgow - Edinburgh

Perhaps you also have some "child" menus, e.g. "shopping" and "transport", under each top level menu item, e.g.

London
- shopping
- travel
Glasgow
- shopping
- travel
Edinburgh
- shopping
- travel

In MetaTemplate Pro, you have a selector box that shows you all the different menu items available.

So I would create 3 different MetaTemplate rules:
- in 1, select "London" from the menu selector, and select "Include selected items and their children" from the drop-down above it. Then in the "SUCCEED ACTION" on the right, select the appropriate template for all the London pages.
- in 2, do the same for "Glasgow"
- in 3, do the same for "Edinburgh".

That's the way it's supposed to work. If rule 1 fails (i.e. the menu item is not "London" or one of its child menus) then MetaTemplate will jump down to the next rule and try that one, and so on. If one of the rules does match, then it will set the appropriate template.

If this still doesn't work, please write back. Perhaps I didn't understand your setup properly.

Best regards,
Stephen

Hi Wallies,

just worked out what was wrong: you're using ARTIO JoomSEF. That in itself is fine, but the system plugin for ARTIO JoomSEF was below the MetaTemplate plugin. So I set ARTIO JoomSEF to "-100" and MetaTemplate to "-90" in the ordering, and now it works :-)

I put all the rules back the way they were before, but I tested to see if I could set a menu item & its children to trigger a template. Before I changed the plugin ordering, this didn't work. Now that I changed it, it does work.

So now you can go ahead and set up some MTP rules and I think you'll find it all working properly.

Best regards,
Stephen