I can’t ask this Wayfinder/Ultimate Parent / Workflow question without going into some background. Apologies about the rambling intro...
Normally, when carying out changes to a site, I create a folder on a server called ’staging’ and upload everything there. The client gets a URL www.mysite.com/staging/ and can browse through the staging server as I’ve duplicated the site and made changes in this directory before going live.
Once they’re signed off on the changes, I just upload the approved images, files, css etc into the root for the public to see. I imagine most people do something similar.
Of course, I’m talking about non ModX sites here and these sites are generally medium sized non dynamic sites.
During the past year I’ve started to port most of my sites over to ModX and when I want to work on a file and get feedback before going live I simply duplicate the file and give it add TEST to the page title and menu alias. In that way, it’s immediately obvious to the client that this is a test page and when it’s been approved, I just copy the TinyMCE content into the ’original’ resource.
So I finally get to the point now
I have started creating a container called ’staging’ and adding my test files in there. It’s the closest I can get to continuing with the old domain.com/staging/newpage.htm analogy and it works really well apart from one thing - My left hand navigation which consists of Ultimate Parent and Wayfinder calls.
I can choose to ’hide’ the ’Staging’ container from the menus. That keeps the URL intact but hides my left hand navigation which is not good.
If I don’t hide the ’Staging’ container from the left hand men, I get Staging appearing in the left hand menu and this
* My section
** sub page 1
** sub page 2
becomes this...
* Staging
**My section
*** sub page 1
*** sub page 2
To be honest, it’s not a disaster but surely there’s a way to have development files within a staging container that generates the URL with staging in it but removes that reference from a side navigation bar?
My current Wayfinder / UltimateParent call is this
[[!Wayfinder? &startId=`[[UltimateParent]]` &displayStart=`1` &rowClass=`sidenav` &hideSubMenus=`1` !]]
Maybe there’s a way to use this with either a parameter or some css that will zap a certain resource id?
Thanks in advance.
