dynamic 3-level navigation

I want to build a MODx site with 3 levels of navigation. Users can make a main section choice, and then within each section There will be several categories, and depending on which category is being viewed, several subpage links will be displayed.

It would look something like this:


What is the best way to go about this using MODx? It may turn out that the top-level (sections) are hard-coded, but then how do I handle the 2 level navigation, I want only links relating to the active category to be displayed. Is it possible to do this dynamically using folders/dropmenu or similar?

Thanks for your help and let me know if this is unclear.

Hi,

For instance your tree repository could be like this one
/root
--|section 1(folder/container)
---|category 1(folder/container)
------page1
------page2
---|category 2(folder/container)
------page1
------page2
--|section 2(folder/container)
---|category 1(folder/container)
------page1
------page2
---|category 2(folder/container)
------page1
------page2
--|section 3(folder/container)
---|category 1(folder/container)
---|category 2(folder/container)

To make the main navigation
[[wayfinder? &startId=`0` &level=1]]
will display Section1|Section2|Section3

To build the navigation of the current Section
[!wayfinder? &startID=`[[UltimateParent]]` &hideSubMenus=`1` &level=`2`!]

:-)

ah, quite easy!

I appreciate your help!

You’re welcome.

I’m sorry not to give you more explanation but english is not my mother tongue.
I advice you to have a look to wayfinder doc.
UltimateParent returns the highest parent in the tree which is not the root (equal to 0)

:-)

Thanks, I’ll be able to figure it out from here. I’m playing with wayfinder now.

can someone explain the [[UltimateParent]] part?

Does that only work with wayfinder? I can’t seem to find any documentation on it.

well i found the documentation for ultimate parent

does anyone have a suggestion for finding the parent of the current level, not hte ULTIMATE parent


like:

folder1
-subfolder
-subfolder
--page
--page2
-subfolder

folder1
-subfolder
--page

if i am on a page, how can i reference the id of its subfolder?

[*parent*]

im such a newbie!

thanks

can you get the parent of a parent?

some variant of [*parent*] ?