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[solved] Display parent pagetitle in submenu

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    Mathias Dannevang Reply #1, 16 years, 1 month ago
    Hi,

    I have just started working with modx (revo) and have a quick question regarding displaying the parents pagetitle in the submenu.

    I have searched around the forum and seen some answers but I can’t seem to get any of them to work.

    My template looks like this:
    <div class="submenu">
   <strong class="title">PARENT TITLE HERE</strong>
[[Wayfinder? &startId=`[[UltimateParent]]` &outerTpl=`navigationsliste` &outerClass=`list` &level=`1`]]
</div>


    Could anyone point me in the direction of a solution?

    Regards
    Mathias
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      sottwell Reply #2, 16 years, 1 month ago
      Doesn’t Revo’s Wayfinder have the &displayStart parameter to show the parent item?
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        odeclas Reply #3, 16 years, 1 month ago
        I’m using [[getResourceField? &id=`[[*parent]]` &field=`longtitle`]] when not in a Wayfinder call. Probably a long-winded solution.
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          Mathias Dannevang Reply #4, 16 years, 1 month ago
          Quote from: sottwell at Sep 14, 2010, 07:42 AM

          Doesn’t Revo’s Wayfinder have the &displayStart parameter to show the parent item?

          It surely does. This one works:

          [[Wayfinder? &startId=`[[UltimateParent]]` &outerTpl=`submenu` &outerClass=`list` &level=`1` &displayStart=`[[UltimateParent]]`]]


          Thank you very much!
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            sottwell Reply #5, 16 years, 1 month ago
            huh That’s certainly different; in Evo’s Wayfinder &displayStart is 1 or 0; either it displays the start item or it doesn’t.
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              odeclas Reply #6, 16 years, 1 month ago
              Still does. From RTFM:

              &displayStart Show the document as referenced by &startId in the menu. Default=FALSE

              So it’s a coincidence in this case that it works (presumably the actual value of ultimateParent id is 1).
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                Nic Boyde Reply #7, 14 years, 8 months ago
                Well RTFM says it does, but read on, and you'll find out it doesn't! By default It creates a non-linked title for a menu in <h2></h2> html tags.

                I can't find any workaround that puts the parent into the same menu structure as its children. I always end up creating a higher-level container and have the parent and its erstwhile children all as 1st generation children of the higher-level container. And it isn't always convenient to do so... [ed. note: nicboyde last edited this post 14 years, 8 months ago.]
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