Dropdown TV that lists all of the children's children dynamically?

I have been fooling around with dropdown template variables to select an associated document.

my tree is currently set up like the following:

food (10)
- Breakfast (12)
-- recipe 1 (15)
-- etc...
- Lunch (13)
-- recipe 2 (16)
-- etc...

I propagate the tv with the following @select statement:



The problem with this is that if I add a new "category" Dinner and have recipes added under that document, I would have to go in and manually update the @select statement in the tv to include that parent document id. I would prefere to have it more dynamic so it can update the list on the fly.

Is there an easier way of doing this? I would like to list all recipes in the dropdown list (categories don’t necessarily need to be listed.)

Thanks
Brian

Why not use wayfinder?

http://www.muddydogpaws.com/development/wayfinder/features.html
http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/Wayfinder200
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/board,182.0.html

Wayfinder is great for the front end, displaying navigations but I am trying to have a TV list all children’s children.

I don’t think snippets can be used in TVs can they?

I ended up using the ddtree snippet using the @eval statement which is working great.

I see that I can also use wayfinder for this but ddtree seems to be "lighter" on the code.

I’m not sure but the Quill snippet might help you!