&showDescription

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lokust Reply #1, 19 years, 9 months ago

It seems to me that Wayfinder doesn’t carry over the &showDescription parameter from DropMenu. I’ve added &showDescription=`1` and also &showDescription=`true` to the Wayfinder call though nada. Is that right?

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holliwell Reply #2, 19 years, 8 months ago

Hi lokust,

that’s exactly the same question I want to ask.
I am used to build my sitemap with DropMenu and &showDescription is very nice.
I was searching the docs to do the very same with wayfinder, but found nothing.

Can someone confirm, that’s not possible to get the same result with Wayfinder as DropMenu with &showDescription?

BTW,. the standard install of 0.95 has [[Wayfinder? &startId=`0` &showDescription=`1`]] called in 404 Error Page ;-)

Thanks,
Friedhelm

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sottwell Reply #3, 19 years, 8 months ago

In your chunk template for the rows, just put [+wf.description+] where you want it to show.

<li><a href="[+wf.link+]">[+wf.linktext+]</a> - [+wf.description+]</li>

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holliwell Reply #4, 19 years, 8 months ago

Thanks for the pointer and quick reply.
I guess, one can find the placeholders for Wayfinder in wayfinder.inc.php:

    var $placeHolders = array('[+wf.wrapper+]','[+wf.classes+]','[+wf.classnames+]','[+wf.link+]','[+wf.title+]','[+wf.linktext+]','[+wf.id+]','[+wf.attributes+]','[+wf.docid+]','[+wf.introtext+]','[+wf.description+]','[+wf.subitemcount+]');

I did a quick test on the 404 page:

][[Wayfinder? &startId=`0` &rowTpl=`wfRowTpl` &innerRowTpl=`wfInnerRowTpl `&debug=`1`]]

where
wfRowTpl:

<li><a href="[+wf.link+]">[+wf.linktext+]</a> - [+wf.description+]</li>

and
wfInnerRowTpl:

<li><a href="[+wf.link+]">[+wf.linktext+]</a> [+wf.wrapper+] - [+wf.description+]</li>

Output doesn’t list the subitems, however debug shows me, my templates are used.
I, as newbie, must miss something obvious ;-)
Any further hint?
Thanks
Friedhelm

p.s.: modx 0.95 standard install, wirh demo content

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kjaebker Reply #5, 19 years, 8 months ago

you need to add the placeholder [+wf.wrapper+] to the wfRowTpl chunk. This placeholder gets replaced with the submenus.

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holliwell Reply #6, 19 years, 8 months ago

Thanks, that did the trick. I must read the docs for wayfinder once again and more carefully;-)
However, used with &showDescription, wayfinder shows the same bug as DropMenu did

<li><a href="/templates.html">Templates</a>
  <ul>
      <li><a href="index.php?id=39&template=MODxHost">MODxHost</a> - MODxHost</li>
       <li><a href="index.php?id=39&template=MODxCss">MODxCSS</a> - MODxCSS</li>
       <li><a href="index.php?id=39&template=MODxCSS%20Wide">MODxCSSW</a> - MODxCSSW</li>
  </ul>
 - Templates</li>

As you can see, description for Templates is written under the subitems. Looks a bit misplaced. Could that be fixed? Any pointer where to fix this?

Thanks
Friedhelm

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kjaebker Reply #7, 19 years, 8 months ago

In your template put the [+description+] placeholder before the [+wrapper+] placeholder.

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holliwell Reply #8, 19 years, 8 months ago

Short time after I wrote my message I did exactly this ;-)

wfRowTpl:

<li><a href="[+wf.link+]">[+wf.linktext+]</a> - [+wf.description+]  [+wf.wrapper+]</li>

Sorry for the noise and thanks!

Friedhelm

p.s.: maybe this should be included in the demo content for the next release?

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holliwell Reply #9, 19 years, 8 months ago

May I add &showDescription along with an example in the wiki?

Friedhelm

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kjaebker Reply #10, 19 years, 8 months ago

you can add anything you want to the wiki, as long as it is accurate