Replacing Wayfinder with pdoMenu

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sketchi Reply #1, 9 years, 9 months ago

I'm experiencing some issues when trying to replace Wayfinder with pdoMeny to create a simple one-level menu.

This is what I have for Wayfinder:

[[Wayfinder?
    &startId=`0` 
    &level=`1` 
    &includeDocs=`1,16,26` 
    &hereClass=`selected` 
    &outerTpl=`navOuter` 
    &rowTpl=`navRowTpl`
]]

This is what I would have thought would work with pdoTools:

[[pdoMenu?
    &parents=`0`
    &level=`1`
    &resources=`1,16,26`
    &hereClass=`selected`
    &tplOuter=`navOuter`
    &tplParentRow=`navRowTpl`
]]

The problem is I don't get &tplParentRow=`navRowTpl`, which I would have thought was the equivalent of &rowTpl=`navRowTpl`, to work. It works if I remove &level=`1` and &resources=`1,16,26` however.

I've also tried with &tplInnerRow and other options found in the documentation at http://docs.modx.pro/en/components/pdotools/snippets/pdomenu with no luck. What would the correct option in pdoMenu be to replace &rowTpl in this case?

(MODX Revo 2.2.13 + pdoTools 1.9.2)

This question has been answered by iusemodx. See the first response.

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sketchi Reply #2, 9 years, 9 months ago

Duh! In answer to my own question, the correct replacement for &rowTpl was simply &tpl.

[[pdoMenu?
    &parents=`0`
    &level=`1`
    &resources=`1,16,26`
    &hereClass=`selected`
    &tplOuter=`navOuter`
    &tpl=`navRowTpl`
]]

It was just too easy wink

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sketchi Reply #3, 9 years, 9 months ago

Ok, so, next question:

Which placeholders are available for tplStart with pdoMenu? In Wayfinder I have this:

<h2>[[+wf.title]]:</h2>[[+wf.wrapper]]

I don't get the title to show with pdoMenu. Tried [[+title]] with no luck and also tried setting the prefix with &phPrefix.

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Paulp Reply #4, 9 years, 9 months ago

Just looked for 30 mins and can't find the answer due to the fact most of the tutorials are in Russian, hopefully Susan will be along soon as I know she uses it and has reference to pdoTools on her cook book but I can't find that either, going to be one of those nights sad

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stalemate resolution associate Reply #5, 9 years, 9 months ago

Did you find this?: http://docs.modx.pro/en/components/pdotools/snippets/pdomenu

Looks like it is a little sparse on the placeholders though.

I also looked at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cin46A24W8s
and at 0:19, there is a setting within the pdoMenu snippet for plPrefix, which in the video is set to "wf." Make sure yours is and try your snippet call again.

Regards,
Tom

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sketchi Reply #6, 9 years, 9 months ago

Thanks for your advice guys! After some trial and error I finally got the placeholder to work simply by replacing "title" with "pagetitle". Both [[+pagetitle]] and [[+wf.pagetitle]] seems to do the job, without even setting the phPrefix.

Also, to get rid of the wrapping <ul> around the title I had to add &tplOuter and &tplInner. My final snippet call:

	                	[[pdoMenu?
					&parents=`[[UltimateParent]]`
					&displayStart=`1`
					&tplStart=`@INLINE <h2>[[+pagetitle]]:</h2>[[+wrapper]]`
					&tplOuter=`@INLINE [[+wrapper]]`
					&tplInner=`@INLINE <ul>[[+wrapper]]</ul>`
					&level=`1`
					&hereClass=`selected`
				]]

I guess the placeholder "title" is specific to Wayfinder. It would no doubt be useful with a list of placeholders for pdoMenu in the English documentation, and some more advanced examples. I would have thought replacing Wayfinder with pdoMenu would be done in a jiffy but it's taken me hours. Let's hope the result is worth it though

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ottogal Reply #7, 9 years, 9 months ago

From the Wayfinder Documentation:

wf.title
the title text for the link, from the field as specified in the &titleOfLinks parameter

The placeholder [[+wf.title] is used for the title of a link (which shows up on hovering over the link), e.g.

<a href="[+wf.link+]" title="[+wf.title+]" [+wf.attributes+]>[+wf.linktext+]</a>

It defaults to [[+pagetitle]], but can be modified by the property &titleOfLinks:

&titleOfLinks
The field to get the link title from.
Possible values: menutitle, id, pagetitle, description, parent, alias, longtitle, introtext
Default value: pagetitle

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sketchi Reply #8, 9 years, 9 months ago

@ottogal: Yes this is how Wayfinder does it, but do you know if there is an equivalent in pdoMenu or which placeholders can be used?

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ottogal Reply #9, 9 years, 9 months ago

Sorry, I don't know pdoMenu enough to have an answer.

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iusemodx Reply #10, 8 years, 4 months ago

Quote from: sketchi at Jul 31, 2014, 10:28 AM

@ottogal: Yes this is how Wayfinder does it, but do you know if there is an equivalent in pdoMenu or which placeholders can be used?

I am not sure if you ever got this problem sorted but I am currently converting from Evo to Revo and use the title tag in my wayfinder template

I have now found out how to use the href title tag / placeholder in pdoMenu, here the relevant elements:

[[pdoMenu? 
&plPrefix=`wf.`
&titleOfLinks=`longtitle` 
&tpl=`@INLINE <li><a href="[[+link]]" title="[[+wf.title]]" [[+attributes]]>[[+menutitle]]</a></li>`

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