DropMenu and TVs

How do you make TVs and DropMenu work together? DropMenu works great for creating category navigation, because I have a folder for each category. Index pages for each category are created automatically with "startDoc=[*id*]". Will it display by custom fields (TVs) such as [*brand*] so users can navigate by brand, in addition to category? Also, I want the output on these index pages to include a TV of [*thumb*] so a thumanail pict appears next to the title of each article. How can you do that?

PS: I’m impressed with MODx. I had it up and running in 10 minutes and less than 2 weeks later it’s almost ready to go live. There’s a lof of flexibility and the GUI is straightforward.

Hi,

Will it display by custom fields (TVs) such as [*brand*] so users can navigate by brand, in addition to category?

Could you please be more specific? You have a menu that displays the categories (do you have examples?), and now you want to display an additional menu which is categorized by brand? How are these articles related? Like

-motorcycles
-cars
-vans

on one hand and

-BMW
-Chrysler
-Honda

on the other hand? Perhaps it´s better you type in your structure

Also, I want the output on these index pages to include a TV of [*thumb*] so a thumanail pict appears next to the title of each article

The title is displayed in your template like <h1>[*pagetitle*]</h1>, so you can easily put your TV in front of that like [*thumb*] <h1>[*pagetitle*]</h1> or similar. Additionally add an empty selection to your choices in that TV. If there is "empty" selected, there will nothing be displayed.

Greetz Marc

Yes, your examples below are what I’m talking about. There are folders (categories) for: motorcycle/car/van. Within those folders are many brands: BMW/Chrysler/Honda. Since it’s a database, it should be easy enough to automatically generate indexes by brand. Maybe with DropMenu if it can handle TVs, or a type of SQL query if not? Is there a better widget/snipped to do this than DropMenu?

The template I’m using for folders calls DropMenu within a non-editable section. Therefore, I don’t touch those index files. There’s no way to insert a TV normally because the list of titles is generated by DropMenu.

Think I may have found this solution, by using NewsListing snippet. See these posts

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,2620.0.html
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,1531.0.html

Solution posted here: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,2620.0.html