Menu Child Teaser Block

Display TEASERS of the CHILD ITEMS of the current page MENU ITEM in a BLOCK.

When this block is positioned under the content (eg in the 'content' region) and you are viewing a page that is in the menu and has some child items (nodes only) then the teasers of these pages will be collected and displayed.

This then acts as an automatic table of contents for any section you are looking at, ensuring the content items within the section are readily
displayed.

This produces expected behaviour in some architectures, and reduces the need for introductory (parent, topic or index) pages to enumerate content in the deeper pages.

This is a pretty small module, with a single purpose. To change the display of the teasers, this should be done in theme functions or CCK field display
settings. Some new theme callbacks are defined that you can override if you like.

To Install

Once the module is enabled, you need to visit the blocks administration page, and place the new block "Menu Child Teasers" on the page, in a
'content' or 'under content' type region. Configure visibility as usual.

See Also

SubMenuTree module provides the same functionality, with more options. SubmenuTree allows (and requires) you to enable this feature on a per-node basis, which gives you more control of when it shows up.
If I'd known it existed, I probably wouldn't have needed to build this one, so you are probably best to use that one.