[Resolved] wayfinder menu - make it use a dynamic startId

Hi,

For a secondary navigation on our site we need wayfinder to start at the deepest level folder the document lies in that is currently viewed. To illustrate what i meant i made some ascii art below. I want to use the page id of "a" as a startId when the user is viewing "1" or "2". If the user is viewing "3" or "4" i want to use the page id of "b" as a startId.

0 (site start/root)
|
|-a
| |-1
| |-2
|-b
|-3
|-4

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

did you try with UltimateParent snippet ?

You call will look like this one

[!wayFinder? &startID=`[[UltimateParent]]` !]

:-)

Quote from: heliotrope at Jan 10, 2007, 10:02 AM

did you try with UltimateParent snippet ?

No i didn’t but it does exactly what I have been looking for. Thanks a lot!

Quote from: heliotrope at Jan 10, 2007, 10:02 AM

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You call will look like this one

[!wayFinder? &startID=`[[UltimateParent]]` !]

:-)

I got my navigation working by now. if anyone else wants to try this as well please note that startID should be startId, otherwise you’d get weird effects. And in the worst case you would waste a half an hour on this like i did

Yeah, Ditto uses "startID", and Wayfinder uses "startId"... always causes me trouble.

Seems like it would make sense to have them both be ID ... and to provide backwards compatibility for instances of Id.

As far as I can tell, all the snippets that have the need to indicate a document ID to use has a different variable. In a way I suppose it’s not a bad thing since it avoids the possibility of conflicts.