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This article may no longer be required as Accordion Menu now (V2.05 onwards) has a capability to limit the number of second and third level Sections displayed.

TOP LEVEL:

You may have some top-level Sections that have too many sub-sections to comfortably display and want to omit them from expanding.

This requires us to put a Condition ! DontExpandInAccordion around 2 bits of code.

Go to Design / Library / Variables, right-click Accordion Menu and choose New Variable.
Create the variable as below: 1)Go to Design / Library / Layouts / Accordion Menu / Glossy Accordion Menu.
Look for a line starting <a sid=........

In that line there is a fragment of code: Amend it to be (leaving the rest of the line intact): 2) A few lines below this should be: Amend this by surrounding it with the same Condition as used in (1): Now in your Section Details, under Accordion Menu, there will be a variable DontExpandInAccordion that you can set to true to disable particular top-level Sections.

SECOND LEVEL:

To use this to prevent a Second level section from expanding, create the variable DontExpandInAccordion as per above.

Then we need to add the Condition code && (! DontExpandInAccordion) into two existing BlockIfs.

Edit layout Accordion Sub Sections and look for the line (near line 3): Replace it with: Also look for the the second occurrence of the same code (near line 20): Replace it with: Now in your Section Details, under Accordion Menu, there will be a variable DontExpandInAccordion that you can set to true to disable particular second-level Sections.

N.B. Tweaks such as this are not supported.

Perfect, many thanks!!! I've created that variable, less manual work included now and in the future when new requirement for omitting top-level section from expanding arises

I've updated my original post to use that Variable as it's much more general purpose that way.

This works really well for me but I also have some sub-sections that have too many sub-sub-sections. Can I stop the subsections from expanding?

Fixing this for sub-sections is much trickier.

However I have a better way. I've updated the menu so you can specify a limit for the number of sub and sub-sub sections. If you use this you get an automatic additional "Show All" link to the parent Section.

Email me and I'll send you a copy.

I've amended post #1 above to show how to use this on second-level Sections too.