Ionic 2 Multiple Menus on Multiple pages not working - ionic-framework

Question

I am building a tabbed application in Ionic 2 which has five tabs one being the home page. The tabs work fine. I am trying to add a menu for each tab page other than the home page. I have duplicated and added the code below for each of the 4 pages in the home page just changing the menu id;s and the content id's. Everything works fine for the first page I access the subsequent pages I access just don't do anything. I thought this would be quite simple but already have spent days looking for a solution. The docs just refer to different menus on one page not different menus on several pages. Newbie so guess its simple. Help please.
<ion-header>
<ion-navbar color="dark">
<button ion-button menuToggle="menujoinus">
<ion-icon name="menu"></ion-icon>
</button>
<ion-title>JOIN US</ion-title>
</ion-navbar>
</ion-header>
<ion-menu [content]="joinuscontent" id="menujoinus">
<ion-content>
<ion-list>
<button ion-button block icon-right color="secondary" menuClose="menujoinus">Close
<ion-icon name="close"></ion-icon>
</button>
<button ion-item icon-left (click)="openPageFieldguides()">
<ion-icon name="compass"></ion-icon>
Field Guides
</button>
<button ion-item icon-left (click)="openPageVolunteers()">
<ion-icon name="clipboard"></ion-icon>
Volunteers
</button>
<button ion-item icon-left (click)="openPageOwner()">
<ion-icon name="key"></ion-icon>
Owners
</button>
</ion-list>
</ion-content>
</ion-menu>
<ion-nav #joinuscontent [root]="rootPage"></ion-nav>

Answer 1

It's a bit confusing but you need to add all the menus to the app component - not any of the sub pages - and then reference whichever you need from the sub page using the MenuController. In some cases you may need to disable/enable menus on the sub page but depends on the situation. Take a look at http://ionicframework.com/docs/api/components/app/MenuController/ and the "Multiple Menus on the Same Side" and "Multiple Menus on Different Sides" for more information.
An example:
<!-- Menu 1 -->
<ion-menu id="menu-one" [content]="nav">
<ion-header>
<ion-navbar>
<ion-title>Menu 1</ion-title>
</ion-navbar>
</ion-header>
<ion-content>
<ion-list>
<ion-item (click)="doSomething()" menuClose>
Item 1
</ion-item>
<ion-item (click)="doSomething()" menuClose>
Item 2
</ion-item>
</ion-list>
</ion-content>
</ion-menu>
<!-- Menu 2 -->
<ion-menu id="menu-two" [content]="nav">
<ion-header>
<ion-navbar>
<ion-title>Menu 2</ion-title>
</ion-navbar>
</ion-header>
<ion-content>
<ion-list>
<ion-item (click)="doSomething()" menuClose>
Item 1
</ion-item>
<ion-item (click)="doSomething()" menuClose>
Item 2
</ion-item>
</ion-list>
</ion-content>
</ion-menu>
<ion-nav #nav [root]="rootPage"></ion-nav>
And on the sub page:
import { Component } from '#angular/core';
import { MenuController } from 'ionic-angular';
#Component({
selector: 'sub-page',
templateUrl: 'sub-page.html'
})
export class SubPage {
constructor(public menuCtrl: MenuController) {
// menuCtrl.enable(false, 'menu-one');
menuCtrl.enable(true, 'menu-two');
}
toggleMenu() {
this.menuCtrl.toggle();
}
}
The gotcha is the doSomething() method needs to be on the app component, not the sub page component.