Joomla Newbie question

[martynk]

Hi

My first post.

I have a website setup and have a problem with the way that information is being displayed. I have spent a few days and I just seem to be going round in circles.

This is a citizen science website. It has menu heading across the menu bar, each menu heading opens up a series of 2nd level menus in side bar left, conditional on which menu bar entry has been selected. A matching set of sub categories is then used to host the individual articles.

What I want is to click on a 2nd level menu - and in the left sidebar, the subcategories for that 2nd level menu to be displayed. What actually happens is that the subcategories are displayed in the 'main' pane which suppresses the top level articles.

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Really struggling to understand how to suppress this or whether its even possible.

Thanks for reading this far.

Martyn

[martynk]

Apologies,

I appear to have created 4 posts. Not sure how, if a mod/admin will forgive me, please delete the other 3 posts..

[AMurray]

other posts have been deleted.