FirstChildRedirect redirecting to last child instead

Hi all,

I’ve got a problem with using the FirstChildRedirect snippet in ModX Revolution. It’s redirecting to the last child item instead of the first. My resource set-up is like so:

->Parent Resource
->Child 1
->Child 2
->Child 3
->Weblink 3a
->Weblink 3b

and when the user clicks on "Parent Resource" instead of being redirected to "Child 1" they are being redirected to "Child 3".

The snippet call I’m using is


Can anyone shed some light on this?

Thanks!

It uses menuindex to determine the first child, so the resource with the lowest menuindex would be the "first" child.

Thanks sottwell,

I’ve mucked around with the menu indexes and discovered that FirstChildRedirect is definitely redirecting to the resource with the highest menuindex for some reason. I’ve modified the snippet call to

and it’s working as it should now.

I installed FirstChildRedirect through the package management system only a couple of days ago, and haven’t modified the snippet code at all (not php savvy in the least), so any idea why it’s defaulting to the highest rather than the lowest?

Ah, I posted the code from the Evo version. The Revo version may be doing something else altogether.

Thanks for posting this. I had the same problem. Was driving me a bit insane until I read this - the revised snippet call definitely works though. YAY for MODx and its vibrant community forum

I downloaded FirstChildRedirect snippet (Version 2.2-pl) and checked the code.
It looks like &sortDir parameter is set to "DESC" in its default property settings.
So you can override the default value by specifying &sortDir=`ASC` in the snippet call.
Thinking of the name of this snippet, the default value should be "ASC"...

Thanks for posting this, it was driving me nuts.

The reason this was happening is that in the Property Set sortDir was set to the default of DESC.

So the code says the default is ASC, but the Property Set says DESC - the property set takes precedence.

You can find the Property Set for this Snippet in the "Properties" tab of the snippet.

This bug persists. I can’t find a place to report the bug. Shall we rename this LastChildRedirect?