Displaying resources from another context

I actually had the same issues with Wayfinder in the manager context here: http://forums.modx.com/thread/79645/sorting-tv-resourcelist-by-title-instead-by-id#dis-post-442125

Just did not return anything when in the backend. Seems like Wayfinder refues to run in mgr context for whatever reason...I ended up using getResources instead of it^^

While getResources is a fine solution, it still doesn't solve my original problem. See, while Wayfinder advertises it has "context abilities", it just doesn't work as it should... I think there is a bug somewhere inside switching back to the original context, which messes things up on my end.

Try it for yourself. Create 2 contexts with 2 resources, call it: &startId=`0`&startIdContext=`othercontext`&contexts=`web,othercontext`
And after the Wayfinder call, place a link to a resource inside the other (note: not "othercontext") context.

• web
  [ul]
  [li]Resource (1)
• Resource 2 (2)

[/li]
[li]other

• Resource 3 (3)
• Resource 4 (4)

[/li]
[/ul]

Thus, when your Wayfinder is in (1), place a link next to it like so: [[~3]]. That messes things up BIGTIME on my end.
Oh, also don't forget to create a modContextSetting named "site_url" inside your othercontexts defining a unique URL. Doesn't really have to work I guess.

/edit
WOW, this forum has sucky nested UL/LI support. I guess you get my drift.

Have you thrown &debug=`1` at the Snippet call?

I remember trying this for my book, and found an issue with it, but that has been some time ago. I would think Shaun to have fixed it by now. Give me a couple of minutes to test it on one of multi-context sites.

Here's your answer if you were wanting to use wayfinder on the front side of the site as intended:



This works ONLY if you have done the following:

Added a site_url setting in the default system systems pointed to the "web" context domain name : http://www.domain.tld/ (don't forget the slash)
Added a site_start setting in each context pointing the context's home page.
Added a site_url setting in each context with the domain for that context: http://subdomain.domain.tld/ (don't forget the slash)

The scheme will build a full url for each link based on the context setting site_url, in this way you can have multiple contexts in one menu.

As far as the Manager is concerned, I see no real point in running Wayfinder, as how are you going to attach styling etc? It is much easier to simply create a Dashboard Widget, as show here: http://www.shawnwilkerson.com/modx-revolution/2012/11/26/site-summary-widget-/-snippet/ [ed. note: wshawn last edited this post 11 years ago.]

Thanks Shawn, but I'm not the one using it for backend purposes.
Unfortunately your solution is already in place here, and isn't working.

Mark:

Is the problem with this property?

Since your startId is 0, it should not be specified as from a specific Context...

Yes, either startIdContext or contexts are messing things up.
My startIds are 42 and 71.

I even tried a dirty fix, which partially works, but when I echo anywhere after the [[wfMenu]] call (snippet is called that, obviously), for example [[++site_start]], I get the ORIGINAL site start. So no reload, no re-set of placeholders...



Again, it returns the menu, but I have to force &scheme=`full` which also solved a lot of problems, but still, the native func. doesn't do me any good at this time...