[solved]Wayfinder with child that inherits the displayed menu of the parent doc?

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towerofbabel Reply #1, 18 years, 5 months ago

I am using Wayfinder for sidebar navigation for a site. There is a funtion I would like, but am not sure how to do it with Wayfinder.

I have a couple of "index" pages within the site - "news", "articles", "teachers" etc. I have Wayfinder set up so that they display the desirable sidebar navigation. But, I want the pages within those categories to show the same sidebar menu as the parent.

ie- "articleX", "articleY" and "articleZ" should show the same sidebar navigation as "articles"; and, "newsA", "newsB", and "newsC" should show the same sidebar navigation as "news".

Is this possible?

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sottwell Reply #2, 18 years, 5 months ago

Make a TV with an input type of Textarea and the default value of @INHERIT. In the parent documents, edit the TV to have the Wayfinder call you want. The children will inherit that Wayfinder call.

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towerofbabel Reply #3, 18 years, 5 months ago

Quote from: sottwell at Apr 13, 2008, 12:25 AM

Make a TV with an input type of Textarea and the default value of @INHERIT. In the parent documents, edit the TV to have the Wayfinder call you want. The children will inherit that Wayfinder call.

Ok, thanks sottwell. I guess it is time I finally read up on TVs, then.

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sottwell Reply #4, 18 years, 5 months ago

Yeah, I was really hesitant about them at first, now I don’t know what I would do without them! And I don’t know half as much about them as I should.

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towerofbabel Reply #5, 18 years, 5 months ago

Quote from: sottwell at Apr 13, 2008, 12:25 AM

Make a TV with an input type of Textarea and the default value of @INHERIT. In the parent documents, edit the TV to have the Wayfinder call you want. The children will inherit that Wayfinder call.

Well, I still need to look into it a bit more, but from a basic read of the documentation on TVs, I gather that the parent and child would both have to be based on the same document template for this to work, right?

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sottwell Reply #6, 18 years, 5 months ago

Yes, that’s why they are called Template Variables.

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towerofbabel Reply #7, 18 years, 5 months ago

Quote from: sottwell at Apr 13, 2008, 12:25 AM

Make a TV with an input type of Textarea and the default value of @INHERIT. In the parent documents, edit the TV to have the Wayfinder call you want. The children will inherit that Wayfinder call.

Ok, I have done this, but the children aren’t inheriting, they are poor....

Specifically, I made these steps:

1. Created a new template based on the original - "templateB"
2. created a new TV with textarea input type and the default value of @INHERIT
3. edited "templateB" to replace my previous wayfinder call with

[*exampletv*]

4. updated the parent and one child document to use "templateB"
5. in the TV for the parent, I added my Wayfinder call

[!Wayfinder? &level=`1`!]

6. Checked that the child has a TV with @INHERIT in the text area

Now, from this, the parent menu in the TV is displaying, but the child is simply not inheriting. Did I make a silly error here?

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sottwell Reply #8, 18 years, 5 months ago

Consider what you have done with that snippet... you’ve told Wayfinder to use the current document as the parent, by not specifying a startId, so it uses the default, right? So each page is inheriting just that: use the current document as the parent! Even when the current document is one of the children.

Specify the ID of the parent: [!Wayfinder? &startId=`xx` &level=`1`!]

And that’s the beauty and the beast of computer programming. Unlike teenaged children, computers do exactly what you tell them to do. It’s just that sometimes what you tell them to do is not quite what you meant grin

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towerofbabel Reply #9, 18 years, 5 months ago

Quote from: sottwell at Apr 15, 2008, 10:42 AM

Consider what you have done with that snippet... you’ve told Wayfinder to use the current document as the parent, by not specifying a startId, so it uses the default, right? So each page is inheriting just that: use the current document as the parent! Even when the current document is one of the children.

Specify the ID of the parent: [!Wayfinder? &startId=`xx` &level=`1`!]

And that’s the beauty and the beast of computer programming. Unlike teenaged children, computers do exactly what you tell them to do. It’s just that sometimes what you tell them to do is not quite what you meant

sottwell, you are the best, thanks a lot.

TVs really are quite something, I can see there is huge potential here once I get over my initial MODx learning curve.