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Answered dynamically setting start_id to parent

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    vampke Reply #1, 6 years, 7 months ago
    Hello,
    I can not seem to find an answer to this simple question: is there a way to set the start_id in the wayfinder snippet so that it always shows all the siblings of the current page?
    The start_id should show the parent id of the current page with level set to 1.
    How do I get the parent id in the wayfinder snippet?
    [[Wayfinder? &startId=`parent` &rowTpl=`leftMenuRowTpl` &level=`1` &ignoreHidden=`0` ]]
    does not seem to work, it always shows the siblings from the root.

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

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      LK Reply #2, 6 years, 7 months ago
      Try:

      [[Wayfinder? &startId=`[[*parent]]` &rowTpl=`leftMenuRowTpl` &level=`1` &ignoreHidden=`0` ]]
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        vampke Reply #3, 6 years, 7 months ago
        excellent, thank you!
        Still trying to figure this out.
        After years of etomite i have finally given in to modx...
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          vampke Reply #4, 6 years, 5 months ago
          Hi,

          Coming back to this question: my site structure has 3 levels, parent, children, grand-children
          The above solution works well for the grand-children, but it will show the siblings of the children if a child page is open. It should also show the grand-children in this case.
          Is there a way to have the menu always show the grand-children or can this only be done with different templates for child and grand-child pages?
          I have tried with ultimateparent ([!Wayfinder? &startID=`[[UltimateParent? &topLevel=`2`]]`!]), but this does not seem to work on the lowest level pages [ed. note: vampke last edited this post 6 years, 5 months ago.]