Sidemenu - ultimate parent - etc

So here is my side menu

- Home
- - -Sub Home One
- - -Sub Home Two
About
- - -About Side One
- - -About Side Two
Providers
- - -Providers Side One
- - - - - -Providers Sub Side One
- - -Providers Side Two
- - -Providers Side Three
Contact


now each SUB PAGE has a left menu that I only want to show the SUB Menu's on... (so no home, no about, no info, no contact) I just want to show the submenus from That submenus parent.




if i do for the &startid then it works on the first submenu level. but the second submenu level see's from the second submenu level where i also want it to be the first..

for example...
you click on Providers

I want Providers LEFT SIDE BAR menu to look like this:

- - -Providers Side One
- - - - - -Providers Sub Side One
- - -Providers Side Two
- - -Providers Side Three

just the submenu sides of info. when I click on Providers sub side one (level 3) I want the same menu... but the only way I can do this is if i set the start id to a # (whatever resource id info is)




the problem with this method is that I end up making 5 templates (one for each section) home subpage template, about us subpage template, info subpage template, etc..

I'd like to have just ONE template with 1 sidebar and have a wayfinder or get resources call that calls the ultimateparent of level 1 but UP ends up calling level 2 when I am on level 3. (which makes sense, just not what i want)

so is there a secret command or filter that does what i want?

like if level 3 call level 2 ultimate parent, or same thing for wayfinder? [ed. note: zurie last edited this post 15 years, 1 month ago.]

For your aim there is the parameter &topLevel of UltimateParent.
Try this Wayfinder call:

[ed. note: ottogal last edited this post 15 years, 1 month ago.]

thanks! that worked just like I needed. now I don't need 7 templates for 7 sections plus if anyone makes a new section this template will work with it! awesome!

awesome!

That's MODX...