Today I was creating a new content type in Drupal 7 and came across a nice new Drupal feature. You can set up menus to which the content type belongs. So when the end user creates content only the appropriate menus will be available.
Lets say you create a content type "Latest News". In the Edit Content Type form click on the "Menu Settings" tab at the bottom. You will see here "Available menus". Here you can select the menus you want to be available for this content type, for example here you might select "Main Menu" and a "News" menu that you created earlier. Now create content of the type "Latest News". Click on the Menu settings tab, then check the "Provide menu" checkbox. You will see that only Main Menu and "News" menu are available. There is no navigation menu cluttering up the drop down select box with all the many many system items, so providing the end user with appropriate choices, rather than a confusion of choices. This greatly improves user experience, well done Drupal 7.
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