Wayfinder configuration

The web site template I’m developing has the top level menu items in a horizontal bar across the top of the page:
eg Home | About | Links | Contact

using...



...so the submenus won’t display.

I do however want to display the submenus in a vertical bar on the left for each top level page as it’s displayed.

For example when the ’About’ page displays only it’s submenus are displayed down the left

eg
Background
Sponsors
Events

How would I do this using Wayfinder? I’d also like the option of displaying two levels of submenus.

Background
xyxy xyxyxy
Sponsors
xyx xyxyx xy
Events
Xyx xyxyxy

If your top level links such as about us are containers then you could simply set level limit to `1` so pages within those folders are exluded (&level=`1` )

then in your template in your left block you could then add [!Wayfinder?startId=`[[Parent]]`!] which will only display those pages inside the parent folder. So if you were in About Us section, only the pages inside that section etc would eb displayed

This post may be useful also http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,12920.msg86337.html

Thanks Edge but still couldn’t crack it using your suggestions.

All top level links are containers.

Top level navbar is set to: [!Wayfinder?startId=’0’ &level=’1’!]
(appears to be displaying all menu levels instead of just top level)

Sidebar is set to: [!Wayfinder?startId=’[[Parent]]’!]
(appears to be displaying all menu levels instead of just pages within container)

Is there anything other setting that could be wrong?

Are you using backticks (`) for surrounding the snippet parameter values? You’ll need to use them else you’ll have problems for sure, single quotes won’t work.

Also, you’ll need to use [*parent*] and not [[Parent]].

Examples:

Hope that helps,
Garry

Thanks, that’s fixed the top level menu from display all submenus, however the side bar still displays all levels with [!Wayfinder?startId=`[*parent*]`!] . I’ve checked all top level links and they’re definitely all containers....

The correct solution I’ve discovered is:

[!Wayfinder?startId=`[[UltimateParent]]`!]

I have a question in the same venue.

I’ve been having troubles setting up a navigation bar. Only two out of four top navigation links are "parents." When a user clicks on those two out of four links I wanted the page to show the "children" pages with Wayfinder, but I cannot figure out how to do it. Any suggestions?

Thanks for your help.