Wayfinder challange

Suppose you have the following document structure:

Doc A1
Doc B1
Doc C1
Doc C2
Doc C3
Doc B2
Doc C4
Doc C5

B-level documents contents contain a Ditto call to collect the C-level documents into a single web page. A-level and B-level documents contain a Wayfinder call to produce a list for a sidebar menu. C-level documents each contain one named anchor.

So my desired menu structure should look like this:

<ul>
<li><a href="/doc_a1">Doc A1</a></li>
<li><a href="/doc_b1">Doc B1</a></li>
<li><a href="/doc_b1#doc_c1">Doc C1</a></li>
...

Is there any way to get Wayfinder to reference the parent document so that the named references can be used? Something like [+parent_id+] would be really helpful.

What methods have you all used to achieve this type of structure?

You can use the getField snippet in your innerRowTpl then use the doc id to set the anchor. Something like:


Note: you need to install the GetField snippet first.

Hey wow dev_cw - thanks for the tip - I can use this!
One thing.. after looking at the snippet, do you think kc64 might have to add the docid parameter to the snippet to make sure it’s starting with the right document?

I could be wrong.. I’m not sure what GetField would consider the "current document" in this context.
Thanks again

Good point, but in my test it worked without defining the doc. Worth looking into a bit more

Hey, guys.

I just wanted to thank you for helping me with this issue. I’m disappointed to say that I haven’t made time to work this project in the last two days. I am excited to try this out.

Does it seem that adding [+wf.parentid+] to Wayfinder might be a good idea? Seems like it would be a useful addition. Of course, it’s not the out-of-the-box solution that dev_cw suggests but it might be fun to hack a new feature into Wayfinder.

After a little hacking and some quick testing, I have found a solution which I like very much. Here’s what I did.

My rowTpl chunk:


What’s that [+wf.parent+] placeholder, you say? Well, I had to add the follow small changes to wayfinder.inc.php (version 2.0, 27 Feb 2006):

line 22:


line 181:


I haven’t done any regression testing on the mods but they seem very decoupled from the rest of the operation so I am not terribly concerned about it. Out of respect for the code writers, I had some hesitancy about the mods but I hope they will consider and advise as appropriate.

Adding the parent indeed sounds like a useful addition. Why don’t you submit a patch using the link to the bugtracker in my signature or the forum header.