WayFinder bug? Drop downs and includedocs

When you use the &includedocs parameter within a drop down menu, it kills the drop downs. Is there a way around this? Here's a more detailed explanation.


Typically, a drop down menu with WayFinder looks like this:


Result = Drop down menu works and displays all the resources and their children.

But if you only want to display certain resources and their sub-children, you would normally add the following

Result = This stop the drop downs from working

At the moment, I am getting around this toggling the Hide From Menus checkbox.
But this isn't a satisfactory solution as it hides that Resource from other menus where you may want to display the page as a link.

I could also use the &excludedocs parameter but on a large site with clients creating pages, they don't always remember to update the navigation chunk.

Your best bet is to select Hide from menus in each Resource you do not want displayed in the dropdowns. For whatever reason, I understand the includeDocs to be exclusive to the rest of the site. If memory serves, I think I used to keep it in my head as showOnlyDocs.

You can still create links to the resources using their id (href="[[~27]]")where necessary, or Wayfinder's &ignoreHidden.