Menuindex issues - Modx or Doc Manager?

What is the official way for the document menuindex to work. I have always used the "Doc Manager" to sort my documents and after sorting it resets the first document menuindex to 1. However, when you crete a new document with Modx it always starts at 0

Here is an example. A list of new documents created - the menuindex value is in square brackets.



after using Modules > Doc Manager > Sort Menu Items



If i now add a new document to the sorted doc folder it will be assigned a menuindex of 4.



If i move or copy a document to another section it always keeps the same menu index. I would expect Modx to automatically update the menuindex of documents if they are moved or copied but maybe this is the default behavior.

So who is the culprit? Modx or Doc Manager? I am already having some issue with Doc Manager and updating TVs as mentioned in this post so i am guessing this might be it.

My setup is as follows

Modx 0.9.6.3
MySQL 5.1.34
Apache 2.2.8
PHP 5.2.4

Is there an easier method for updating all menuindexes? Something like a "Publish All" option? I use the menuindex in one of my snippets and its tedious to have to update the sort order after any editing or creating.

I guess you could blame either one. It looks like DocManager starts the index at one and MODx gives the new document a menu index of $count, where $count is the number of existing docs (assuming the numbering starts at 0). You could easily change either one if you could find the code.

BTW, you probably know this, but menu indexes are arbitrary and don’t need to be consecutive. If you have a document that you want to stay at the bottom of the menu, you can give it a menu index of 9999. I’m not sure what DocManager would do with that.

I’m not sure why you need to keep resorting your documents. If you start with menu indexes of 10, 20, 30, etc., for example, you can manually slot a new doc in where you want it. You can also leave Menu Index blank in which case (I think) the docs will be presented in the order they were created.

Hi Bob, Thanks for explaining this. I am probably using menuindex for the wrong purpose.

I am using the menundex in a custom snippet as an identifier to the documents position in the tree. The snippet allows me to output a custom layout based on the order of the documents in the tree. Eg. I have an array of all the documents and if its menuindex is 4, 8, or 12 I assign it a certain class.

I am now thinking this is probably not the best way to do it, and maybe a count value on the items would be a better solution.

If you created a template variable to hold the document-specific info, you’re snippet could check that TV in creating the layoutand it would be independent from the menu index. Or, probably better yet, put the class name in the TV and just use <div class="[*TvName*] "> in your template.

<div class="[[*TvName*]] ">

You’re spending too much time with Revo! (should be [*TvName*])

Quote from: sottwell at Jul 15, 2009, 06:14 AM

<div class="[[*TvName*]] ">

You’re spending too much time with Revo! (should be [*TvName*])

Oops. I should be more careful.
Fixed the post above.

I think DocManager should be updated to accommodate this. please file this in JIRA.

Thanks.