How can I get Babel and WayFinder working with different contexts and unique startids?

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ginalolli Reply #1, 9 years, 4 months ago

I am using MODX Revolution 2.5.6-pl. I have a multilingual site with several languages using Babel which is working as expected. However, for the navigation I have a startid, which relates to a container in my default (English) site.
The other languages will use the same template and therefore the same WF call. How can I modify the WF call so that I can provide unique startids for every language context? - Or do I need to create a unique WF call for every language?

This is my WF call:

[[Wayfinder?
        &startId=`80`
        &outerClass=`navigation__nav__list`
        &innerClass=`navigation__nav__submenu`
        &rowTpl=`navigationRows`
        &rowIdPrefix=`nav__item`
        &level=`3`
        ]]

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

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ginalolli Reply #2, 9 years, 4 months ago

Is anyone able to help? Could I do it with $startIdContext perhaps? Unfortunately, there is no documentation on this, but I received a hint about it on StackOverflow...

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LK Reply #3, 9 years, 4 months ago

I'm pretty sure you need to call in the different wayfinder calls for the contexts ie:

[[Wayfinder? &contexts=`english` &startIdContext=`1` &...]]
[[Wayfinder? &contexts=`danish` &startIdContext=`2` &...]]
[[Wayfinder? &contexts=`chinese` &startIdContext=`3` &...]]

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ginalolli Reply #4, 9 years, 4 months ago

Thanks alot for the reply. I tried it but it doesn't output anything...

[[Wayfinder?
        &contexts=`web`
        &startIdContext=`80`
        &outerClass=`navigation__nav__list`
        &innerClass=`navigation__nav__submenu`
        &rowTpl=`navigationRows`
        &rowIdPrefix=`nav__item`
        &level=`3`
      ]]

      [[Wayfinder?
      &contexts=`nl`
      &startIdContext=`109`
      &outerClass=`navigation__nav__list`
      &innerClass=`navigation__nav__submenu`
      &rowTpl=`navigationRows`
      &rowIdPrefix=`nav__item`
        &level=`3`
      ]]

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ginalolli Reply #5, 9 years, 4 months ago

I am using Babel for the different translation contexts. Can I use something like

 `[[BabelTranslation? &resourceId=`109` &contextKey=`nl`]]`

? - Obviously have tried it but no output. Not much inofrmation on the net ...

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LK Reply #6, 9 years, 4 months ago

Call it uncached

[[!WayFinder? ...]]

Aside from that not I'm not sure off hand, I've never used the Babel extra but I do suggest using pdoMenu anyway rather than WayFinder, as I don't think WayFinder is supported anymore.

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ginalolli Reply #7, 9 years, 4 months ago

I solved this issue. I created a new setting in each of my contexts and called it "start_id" and assigned it the value of the parent folder ID for the navigation. Then in my WF call I used the start_id placeholder. Here is the working code:

[[!Wayfinder?
        &startId=`[[++start_id]]`
        &outerClass=`navigation__nav__list`
        &innerClass=`navigation__nav__submenu`
        &rowTpl=`navigationRows`
        &rowIdPrefix=`nav__item`
        &level=`3`
        &scheme=`full`
        ]]

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elz064 Reply #8, 8 years, 10 months ago

I had the same issue this week. (2 contexts for 2 languages + Babel)
I replaced WF by pdoMenu

Having a look to the pdoMenu snippet code I saw we even don't have to change the &param of the pdoMenu call. It translates the WF param into its own..

Work as intended now.

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