Wayfinder - set "active" resource | MODX Community Forums

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gnoodl Reply #1, 16 years, 3 months ago

Hi all

Just looking for a way to set the "active" resource for Wayfinder.

I have a menu that’s not driven by the current resource where I’d like to programmatically set the active ID for styling purposes. Is this at all possible?

Cheers,
Phil

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anonymized-26931 Reply #2, 16 years, 3 months ago

&selfClass=`youractivecssclass`

in the Wayfinder call?
http://www.muddydogpaws.com/development/wayfinder/parameters.html

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gnoodl Reply #3, 16 years, 3 months ago

Sorry, when I said for styling purposes I meant "tell Wayfinder which item is the active / current one so it sets the class on that item".

I currently have this

[[Wayfinder? &displayStart=`true` &startId=`x`]]

I want to be able to tell Wayfinder that resource "y" which is part of "x"’s tree is the current / active resource.

After looking through the Wayfinder code, I may just have to write it in myself as the active resource is determined by a direct call to

$this->modx->resource->get('id')

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sottwell Reply #4, 16 years, 3 months ago

Wayfinder has two parameters for setting classnames for the active resource. One is for only the active resource &selfClass, the other is for the active resource and its parents all the way up the tree &hereClass. There are also a number of specific tpls to set for these: &hereTpl, &innerHereTpl, &activeParentRowTpl.

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gnoodl Reply #5, 16 years, 3 months ago

Thanks Susan. Just to clarify, I’m not trying to set the active classname, rather I’m trying to set the active resource ID.

To flesh out the use-case a little;

I have a page (resource) that calls the Wayfinder snippet to display a menu, using a &startId that is not a parent of the current page. This means that no item in the generated menu will be set as active.
What I’d like to do is tell Wayfinder that a child resource of the startId is the active page so that it will add the appropriate classnames to that page and its parents.

As I mentioned above, the way Wayfinder determines the current resource ID is hard-coded and not configurable. I will have to create a custom snippet. What I’ll eventually come up with is something like

[[CustomWayfinder? &startId=`x` &activeId=`y`]]

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sottwell Reply #6, 16 years, 3 months ago

hmmm... yeah, that is a bit different. Perhaps you could add the class in the link attributes field and use [+wf.attributes+] in the tpl? Although that won’t solve the parents problem...

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gnoodl Reply #7, 15 years, 5 months ago

Just to follow up on this... Shaun has implemented a patch I submitted via github and Wayfinder now supports the "hereId" parameter.

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sparky Reply #8, 15 years, 5 months ago

not sure if this is the same issue but I’ve got a snippet activeResource that I call

[[!activeResource? &activeID=`[[+id]]` ]]

<?php
$cssClass = 'normal';
if($activeID == $modx->documentIdentifier) {
$cssClass = 'active';
}
return $cssClass;