Populating a Menu

This is my first post, and I'm very new to MODx. I've managed to put together a template, but am missing something when it comes to populating a menu. I know I could easily do this using chunks, or snippets, but I'm trying to build this thing around a template that will be usable by others who have very little html, php, css knowledge. Right now I'm using inside a menu div, and it's unclear to me how this is supossed to work since I can't get it to do anything. I've created the initial home page, and a test page so far.

From the Official docs (available here http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/Wayfinder):
Wayfinder is a Snippet by kylej that scans a specified portion of the MODx document tree, finds all documents that satisfy a certain criteria (determined by the Parameters), and outputs a formatted list of those documents.

To put it another way it scans the list you see on the left side of the manager screen under the resource tab and makes a menu (well really a list) from the resources it finds there that match parameters you give wayfinder.

With your call it should find all the first level resources under the web context ...
So:
you need to have some resources
the resource needs to use a template with the wayfinder call in it OR have the call in its content
the resources need to be published to show up
the resources need to not have the 'hide from menu' box checked

This will produce a list of links - it is up to you to make the list look like a menu (using css)

Thanks, Whistlemaker. I have two pages (those are resources, right?) published. The wayfinder call is in the template I setup for it. I'm assuming this outputs an unordered list. Correct me if I'm wrong. The hide from menu boxes are unmarked. It seems I have everything covered in your checklist. I must be missing something very simple. Do I need to assign an id to each page? [ed. note: daymon74 last edited this post 15 years, 1 month ago.]

Ok, I just looked at the link you posted, and think I can figure it out from there. I'll try anyway. Thanks for the help!

yes (sort of) pages are resources - but resources don't have to pages, if you look under the page setting tab for a resource, the class key can be one of four types (one of which is a document - otherwise known as a page)

yes, wayfinder creates unordered lists

the id is assigned automatically

I'm sure when you figure out what is wrong it will seem obvious!

Make sure the pages are published.