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Help customizing menu snippets

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    chucky Reply #1, 18 years, 4 months ago
    Hi everyone ! i’d like to configure my dropmenu so that it behaves like this ( quite difficult to explain huh, moreover english isn’t ma native language :s ) :
    _ all the root elements are displayed
    _ all the elements "leading" to the present element, meaning "parent", "grandparent" ... and all the "brothers" of all those parents ( so all "cousins", "cousins" of parents,grandparents ... are excluded )


    i read the documentation but it can’t find the rights options that would allow me to configure my menu, maybe there are other menusnippets that i don’t know ??

    thx
      i’m not a native english speaker, sorry if there are any mistakes ! smiley

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    • sottwell Reply #2, 18 years, 4 months ago
      You mean all "siblings" of a given document are displayed? Then use its parent as the startID. All siblings and if you set the depth to be more than 1 level all of their children will be displayed for as many levels as you specify.

      You would call it like this:

      [!DropMenu?startID=`[*parent*]`!]


      or, if you want this to be the parent of some other document, use a snippet that returns the parent of the given document as the startID value.

      [!DropMenu?startID=`[[getParent?docID=`xx`]]`!]


      There is a modx class function getParent that will do the job just fine.

      // getParent snippet
// arguments:
// &docID     the ID of the document whose parent we want

$docID = isset($docID) ? $docID : $modx->documentIdentifier;
$parent = $modx-getParent($docID,1,'id');
return $parent['id']
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        jaredc Reply #3, 18 years, 4 months ago
        I know that ListMenu (written for Etomite and attached below) can do what you ask. But I haven’t touched it in 4 months... so exact how-to’s will be rusty to me. However, I tend to go long on snippet documentation so things can be understood without reading all the code. It might be worth a look. It should be noted that this was NOT converted over to MODx (though it should work), so it will not respect the show/hide in menu checkbox... yet. I may have to put this on my upgrade list as well.
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