Answered URL Generation Scheme

What's the best url generation scheme to use? I'm trying to navigate from the children to one of the parents but it generates the wrong url. The url generations scheme i have now is link tag scheme

That should do the job. If you need to go higher, use the Ultimate Parent snippet instead of the parent tag.

so where do I place that because right now it has the key as link_tag_scheme and the value as -1

link_tag_scheme only specifies if a URL should be relative (page.html), absolute (/page.html) or full (http://mydomain.com/page.html), and if it's http or https.

-1 : (default value) URL is relative to site_url
0 : see http
1 : see https
full : URL is absolute, prepended with site_url from config
abs : URL is absolute, prepended with base_url from config
http : URL is absolute, forced to http scheme
https : URL is absolute, forced to https scheme

Canyou please elaborate, it's my first time working with websites so I'm not certain about whatyou mean

Look at the URL that gets generated. Using the default -1 setting, you would get "page.html". If you use full, you'll get "http://domain.com/page.html". Using abs (absolute) will get "/page.html", or in my case since I have MODx installed in a subdirectory, I get "/revo228/page.html" (note the leading /, this indicates the beginning of the web root). 0 is the same as full, using http. 1 is the same as full, only using https.

MODx automatically generate values for base_url, which is usually just / (or in my case /revo228/), and site_url, which is the full http://domain.com/ (in my case, http://localhost/revo228/)

You can see these if you put [[++site_url]] and [[++base_url]] in a resource and view it.

I don't think that this setting has anything to do with what you are trying to do.

So this will not help me fix the problem of navigating between the parent and children. I thought the problem might have been that the parent url freezes that is why it gives me the wrong url

1. How are you creating the link?

2. What, exactly, do you expect to get, and what are you getting instead?

3. Do you have a base tag in your template head?

For instance if I'm trying to navigate from:
http://eldersdigest.org/media/media/Videos

to go to of of the other pages, I get the url:
http://eldersdigest.org/media/elders-digest

instead of:
eldersdigest.org/elders-digest

Media is the parent of Videos

Hm. You definitely have a problem. http://eldersdigest.org/media/media/media/whatever is not going to go anywhere.

Here's what I would do if I were you. Forget the fancy Javascript stuff for now. Just do a plain Wayfinder snippet with the default tpls : [[Wayfinder? &startId=`0`]]

This will give you a simple nested unordered list. Get this working before you try adding the Javascript bells and whistles.

Make sure you have the <base href... tag I mentioned before in your template head; put it right after the title tags.