DropMenu - Can startDoc Be Rendered in Menu?

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ddecjc Reply #1, 18 years, 1 month ago

Is it possible to set up a DropMenu such that the folder I use as the startDoc is rendered as a link in the menu? The default (and maybe the only) behavior is that the startDoc folder/doc is not rendered--only it’s children.

Say I have the following document structure...

Folder1 ( 1 )
- Doc1 ( 2 )
- Doc2 ( 3 )
- Doc3 ( 4 )
Folder2 ( 5 )
- Doc4 ( 6 )
- Doc5 ( 7 )
Doc6 ( 8 ) //notice that this one is at the site root level
Doc7 ( 9 ) //notice that this one is at the site root level

Can I set up a DropMenu with a startDoc of "1" but make it so that "Folder1" appears in the menu with Doc1, Doc2, and Doc3 as <li>’s underneath it?

If it’s not possible now, has this ever been proposed or considered as a future enhancement?

EDIT: I just realized that startID is for NewsListing while startDoc is for DropMenu. I had it correct in the code for my site, but I was getting them mixed up as I typed.

Dave

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ddecjc Reply #2, 18 years, 1 month ago

I guess another way to accomplish the same thing would be to allow DropMenu to have some sort of filter so that I could have startDoc be "0" but tell it to filter so that only "Folder1" is displayed.

Dave

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anselm1109 Reply #3, 18 years ago

I’m pretty new to Modx, but I don’t think that this is (currently) possible. My working solution is to create a TV that contains the link for the start doc foloder and set the default value of it to an @INHERIT binding. So then I only have to set the link for the top most folder.

In other words:

template looks like this:

	<div id="sidebar">
		<ul>

			<li id="dropmenu">
                        <ul><li>[*SubMenuHeader*]</li></ul>
			[!DropMenu?levelLimit=2&startDoc=[[UltimateParent]]!]
			</li>
                    
                        <li id="feeds">
                        [*RecentArticles*]
                        </li>

		</ul>

and my template variable called [*SubMenuHeader*] is a simple text variable with the default value set to the following:

@INHERIT <a href="index.php?id=15">Symposium</a>

Then I just change the template variable for each top level folder and leave it blank on the sub pages.

Hope that helps!

I would love to see this option built into DropMenu!

Brandon Booth
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