Using both topmenu and leftmenu

Quote from: BobRay at Apr 05, 2009, 04:39 PM

If I’m understanding correctly, I don’t think he needs UltimateParent since he just wants to show the children of the current document. If so, this should do what he wants:

[[Wayfinder &startid=`[*id*]` ]]

So what you are saying here Bob, is that if I set up wayfinder to show me a leftmenu, if for instance my menu "About me" has subpages (children) then this should work?

I should be able to have both a topmenu and lefetmenu, representing my subpages, by using this way?

If this is itm is very easy

I wil try this and let you know how it turned out.

Thanks again guys

//Carsten

There’s was a small typo in Bob’s code though - you probably noticed it; change startid to startId

Quote from: kongondo at Apr 06, 2009, 05:06 AM

There’s was a small typo in Bob’s code though - you probably noticed it; change startid to startId

Oops. Thought I had fixed that. Thanks for catching it.

I’ve also had the case where the left nav is multilevel, so using [*id*] wouldn’t work real well since the left nav would get screwed up when you goto a 3rd level menu. What I’ve used is this:

• Create a TV called NavParent (or whatever). It will contain the doc id of the top level menu. For simplicity, you can leave it a text field, or you can do a DropdownListMenu with the Input Option Values: [tt]@SELECT pagetitle, id from modx_site_content where parent = 0 and published=1 order by menuindex[/tt]. This will let the user select a nice page name instead of type a document id.
• Set the default value to @INHERIT. This is so the the user won’t have to select the top nav parent for each new document in the hierarchy.
• Now your snippet call will be: [tt][!Wayfinder &startid=`[*NavParent*]` .... !][/tt]

This is probably the best way I know.