Is it possible to semi-easily create a drop down module in a column to mimic what was available on v4? (mgf search) -- but using categories now. Where you could offer the option of selecting a top level category from a drop down (i hard coded links as shown below based on the code from the v4 site). Once a selection was made it brought you to the category AND just below the drop down box and before the next column module displayed the top level category and the first level of sub categories? (but only for the category in question). Similar to how the expand out in the catagory list module.
I have a category list already, this would be a way to help with navigation. In the old site if you selected 'catagory z', (we have about 50 top level catagories along the left) the page would populate and the top part of the left column - under the search box would display the appropriate top and sub catagories, even if you didn't use the drop down.
If you pick something from the bottom of the list now the page loads, but the sub catagories may be off the bottom of the page, even on a large monitor. Bringing the current categorycategoriescategoriescategories to the top would be helpful I would think.
I was able to create a custom html module, drop the following in it
CODE
<select style="font-size: 8pt;" onchange="location=options[selectedIndex].value;" name="txtSearch" size="1">
<option>--Select--</option>
<option value="first-top-level-category.aspx">First</option>
<option value="second-top-level-catagory.aspx">Second</option>
</select>
It did populate the page with the correct top level category, just wondering if there is a way of dynamically generating the category / sub category list. I don't want to have to hard code a ~600 category/sub list as our secondary categorycategorycategory names change often.