Displaying Page Title of Parent

Hi,

I’ve got a fairly complicated subnav on a site that I’m working on and after looking around here I found the following:

[!Wayfinder?startId=`[[UltimateParent]]`!]

This works great, but I would like to display the page title of the parent as a header above the nav. I’m planning on duplicating and then modifying the UltimateParent snippet to output the pagetitle instead of the id, but I don’t know how to achieve this.

Can anyone help? Thanks.

Why not just use a TV with @INHERIT, put it just above your Wayfinder snippet tags, and in the parent page’s TV editing field, put the title you want.

Hi,

or try the snippet GetParent (you need "docAPI library" also!).

And then use

in your template.

Quote from: sottwell at Mar 11, 2007, 03:04 AM

Why not just use a TV with @INHERIT, put it just above your Wayfinder snippet tags, and in the parent page’s TV editing field, put the title you want.

Thanks! That worked perfectly.

On a side note, is there anywhere to get some more examples of how the @ bindings work? I checked the wiki but couldn’t find anything.

http://modxcms.com/data-binding.html

There is always various methods to do things in MODx but the method I prefer is use the GetField snippet.
In your case :



That should do the trick

I don’t know about performance compared to the other method but I am an avid GetField user so I went this way...

Hi. I have a little trouble with displaying link on material’s parent in Ditto news block.

I was using GetField for defining href (<a class="ditto_parent" href="[(site_url)]index.php?id=[[GetField? &field=`id` &docid=`[+id+]`]]">) and pagetitle of parent ([[GetField? &parent=`1` &docid=`[+id+]`]]).

Such usage added 100+ DB requests, and it wasn’t very nice thing. A bit later I swiched on FURLs, and here the problem occured - how to get link on parent now? FURL-like link, I mean. I could get document alias with GetField, but what if document is placed inside 3 folders? I tried to call Breadcrumbs snippet inside Ditto template, but with no luck. Same with GetParent snippet.

If anyone have an idea how to put a link on parent with FURL enabled, please share

As I said, performance can be an issue... I have a decent dedicated box hosting few websites thus I can afford to use this kind of "lazy" solutions... about FURLs, it should be doable but using multiple GetField calls to build URLs requires good naming conventions and a bit of logic to work.

I have recently done something of the kind to build a product catalog. I wanted dynamically generated "permalinks" to switch between different views of data for the same product.

It looks like this (sorry data is in french ) :



It changes each time for each of the 3 "permalinks".
As I said, it works only because I have a strict naming convention and also I have set up a model document for each product that the client duplicates (thus the sub-documents have the right alias). But it’s not for everyone...

I sure would like to find another alternative, but since it works I currently have no time to find a better way...
Anyone ?

@Errant: If I’m understanding correctly then you could avoid the DB altogether (if you’re using MODx 0.9.5+) because you could utilise the $modx->getParentIds() method.

Then access the $modx->aliasListing array to find out what the alias (and path if using Alias Paths) are for that ID, or probably better, use $modx->makeUrl(). That would give you enough information to construct the FURL link. And not a DB query in sight!

Thanks for the pointer Garry, hopefully when I finish the 2 projects I am working on, I’ll have the time to dig this and try it out