DropMenu / Scripting Question

This has really got me stumped...

I made a template with a horizontal menu using a snippet. I also want some pages to have a vertical menu. A quick search of the forum lead me to the UltimateParent snippet, sounded like exactly what I wanted.

If I put this code in my template, it works exactly the way I want (on page ID 39)
[[DropMenu? &maxLevel=`1` &startDoc=`39` &hereClass=`active_sub`]]

39 is the page ID of the first page that should have the vertical menu... I don’t want to hard code the Page ID in the template, so I tried using the UltimateParent snippet. If I visit the page I’m working on, and have this code in the template:
[[UltimateParent]]
The snippet is replaced by the text 39... just the way it should.

So I thought this do what I needed:
[[DropMenu? &maxLevel=`1` &startDoc=`[UltimateParent]` &hereClass=`active_sub`]]
But it doesn’t. Its acting as if the [UltimateParent] snippet is returning zero. But if I just put the [[UltimateParent]] code it returns 39.

Any ideas?

Hi,

change your snippet call as follows

[!DropMenu? &maxLevel=`1` &startDoc=`[[UltimateParent]]` &hereClass=`active_sub` !]

:-)

Thanks, that did it!

Any suggested reading I can do? I didn’t see references to [! in the Developers Guide... and I’m not exactly sure what its doing or why [[ didn’t work.

Because you can’t have nested snippet calls with snippets with parameters, without the outside one being uncached... the way the parser currently works.