Answered Basic question, How can I do this using Wayfinder?

I have my site coded 12 pages 6 in English 6 in Spanish. I have 2 different menus, each menu has 7 items - 6 in their language and a link to the other language. I have set up basic wayfinder and the css is working fine as is the active page highlighted. How do I use wayfinder to to show only the 7 pages required for each menu? To be clear I would want Spanish pages to show

• eng
• home
• about
• contact
• links
• location
• gallery

and the english to only show

• span
• home2
• about2
• contact2
• links2
• location2
• gallery2

I am a little overwhelmed by the documentation I have read so far and cannot see how to use wayfinder to do this. I am not looking for a language specific solution but a better understanding of how I can restrict menus to chosen pages depending on content.

Can anyone explain how I would do this? [ed. note: tranquil last edited this post 13 years, 9 months ago.]

If you are going to manage your languages with resource tree structure, you might be interested in this https://forums.modx.com/index.php/topic,29597.msg179898.html#msg179898

Quote from: sottwell at Dec 06, 2012, 11:55 AM

If you are going to manage your languages with resource tree structure, you might be interested in this https://forums.modx.com/index.php/topic,29597.msg179898.html#msg179898

Thanks, but that was one of the pages that overwhelmed me. Maybe in future I will look at options such as that but at the moment I am trying to understand the basics and how wayfinder menus work. As I said in the original question this is not a language specific issue - the site and menu(s) are already coded. I just want to know if there is a simple way to implement them using wayfinder rather than through the page templates as they are currently.

Basically, at its simplest, you need to have two "parent" resources in the root level, one for each language, then you use UltimateParent as the startID for your Wayfinder snippet. This will keep the menu structure limited to the branch of the resource tree for the current language.

All the rest of the stuff is just to establish which language has been selected under different circumstances.

Quote from: sottwell at Dec 06, 2012, 12:12 PM

Basically, at its simplest, you need to have two "parent" resources in the root level, one for each language, then you use UltimateParent as the startID for your Wayfinder snippet. This will keep the menu structure limited to the branch of the resource tree for the current language.

All the rest of the stuff is just to establish which language has been selected under different circumstances.

Sounds exactly what I need but forgive my ignorance how do I create two parent resources? I currently have all pages in what appears to be a folder called web (the hover state tells me it is the 'default front-end context for your web site'. as you will realise I am a complete modx novice and the terminology is proving harder to master than the CMS itself.

Thanks for being patient and very clear I think I have enough to get going with what I want to do now.

Great. You will find it has limitations, and that is when the wiki or the forum topic will come in handy for adding more features.

For more details you might find the Wayfinder Demo helpful.