Tell Wayfinder to ignore ALL children of some resources

Hi everyone,

I have a situation where several parent resources which have 30 or more child resources that I do NOT want to be included in the main navigation. In addition, I really can't "Hide From Menus" all these children as they are used by getResources in several other places AND I'm using Hide/Un-hide to turn them off and on in some cases anyway.

What I'd really like is something like: &ignoreChildren=`256,449,895`
Which would tell Wayfinder or getResources to get the children except in where it's told it ignore them.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to do this with either Wayfinder or getResources?

If I wanted to add this to Wayfinder, would the right place be to modify the function getChildIds in the wayfinder class?

Thanks in advance


Modx = 2.2.8-pl
TinyMCE = 4.3.3-pl
Gallery = 1.5.2-pl

&excludeDocs or &where

http://rtfm.modx.com/extras/evo/wayfinder#Wayfinder-GeneralParameters

Hi,

I am trying to do exactly as @curmudgeon61 has just described. I'd already discovered &where in the Wayfinder Ganeral Params list, but the only info there is:

&where - JSON style filtering option. For example when trying to hide blog or news from the Articles addon: &where=`[{"class_key:!=": "Article"}]`

There is no link or reference to anywhere that gives further information on JSON style filtering option as applied to wayfinder. Can't find anything via google. Is there a list of JSON style modx param names (ege parentid/parent_id etc) and operators/booleans anywhere?

Thanks.

Any site_resources field should do the job. For example


https://rtfm.modx.com/xpdo/2.x/class-reference/xpdoquery/xpdoquery.where

Thanks Susan. It looks good, but for some reason doesn't work. If a child of one of the listed parents isn't hidden from menus, it still shows.

I've added a suggestion in GitHub for &where links and examples to be included in the Wayfinder page. [ed. note: Gav last edited this post 9 years, 6 months ago.]

I know that's the syntax for xPDO WHERE clauses, did you try this with just a comma-separated list instead of an array?

So far I've tried the following, without success:

&where=`[{"parent:NOT IN": array(5,61)}]` - doesn't work: child resources show
&where=`[{"parent:NOT IN": "array(5,61)"}]` - breaks Wayfinder: no menu at all
&where=`[{"parent:NOT IN": array("5","61")}]` - doesn't work: child resources show
&where=`[{"parent:NOT IN": "5,61"}]` - breaks Wayfinder: no menu at all
&where=`[{"parent:NOT IN": "(5,61)"}]` - breaks Wayfinder: no menu at all
&where=`[{"parent:NOT IN": (5,61)}]` - doesn't work: child resources show
&where=`[{"parent:=": 5}]` - breaks Wayfinder: no menu at all
&where=`[{"parentId:=": "5"}]` - breaks Wayfinder: no menu at all
&where=`[{"parentid:=": "5"}]` - breaks Wayfinder: no menu at all
&where=`[{"parent_id:=": "5"}]` - breaks Wayfinder: no menu at all
&where=`[{"parent": "5"}]` - breaks Wayfinder: no menu at all
&where=`[{"parent:NOT IN" => array(5,61)}]` - doesn't work: child resources show
&where=`[{"parent:!=' => 5}]` - doesn't work: child resources show

I look forward to some examples in the Wayfinder page, otherwise this &where business is unusable for people who are not familiar with this "JSON-like" filtering

Anybody know how this question can be answered?

OK, I finally got my answer and got this working:

&where=`[{"parent:NOT IN": [1,3]}]`

Thanks to Steffan https://forums.modx.com/thread/98225/how-to-use-wayfinder-with-where-to-filter-ignore-children-of-specific-resources#dis-post-531149.