How to create a Wayfinder menu including child resources but excluding their parents

I need to create a cut-down version of a menu, for mobile.

It is just a hand-picked subset of 6 pages from the site, from various levels.

Using &includeDocs=`1, 24, 170, 7, 13, 23` I can display the pages I want, EXCEPT if a page is included without its parent.

Page structure is like this:

1
24
170
2
|_7
13
|_23

I want to include the resources in bold only. But resource 7 doesn't appear in the menu unless its parent, 2, is also included.

I can't alter hide-from-menu status of any page resource that would impact on other menus on the site.

How can I include 7 but not 2?

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modx 2.3.5-pl
Wayfinder 2.3.3-pl

You might want to try excluding the ones you don't want using &excludeDocs

I tried &excludeDocs, but the same applies: if I exclude a parent, all of its children are also excluded, even if they are explicitly included.

If I use both, eg

&includeDocs=`1, 2, 24, 170, 7, 13, 23`
&excludeDocs=`2`

resource 2 is excluded along with its child 7.

I also tried

&where=`[{"id:IN": [1, 24, 170, 7, 13, 23]}]`

but still the same - no parent 2, no child 7.

Even if I combine

&where=`[{"id:IN": [1, 2, 24, 170, 7, 13, 23]}]`
and
&excludeDocs=`2`

I get the same result.

All I can suggest is to use weblinks or symlinks for the second menu.

Well, you could use a set of Wayfinder snippets, some with dispayStart and some without.

This works, but lord what a kefuffle!! With all these built-in knobs and buttons on Wayfinder it would be nice to have one that enabled 'unaccompanied' child docs to be included.

This is my rowTpl:


I'm open to better ways of doing this if anybody knows.

Perhaps &startId=`0` &excludeDocs=`2` &includeDocs=`[[getChildren]]` where you have a simple snippet getChildren that uses the $modx->getChildIds() function.

Try PDOMenu if you don't HAVE to use Wayfinder. I had a similar problem and switched to PDOMenu and then simply used in the call.

This skips the parent resource and shows the sibling at the top level instead. The Menu didn't need to be dynamic this was a good little solution for me.

Otherwise, there were some other posts in my question that might help you with a Wayfinder solution here https://forums.modx.com/thread/97349/wayfinder---show-lower-levels-on-certain-menu-items-but-not-others#dis-post-526496

Have you tried a custom parent Tpl chunk that's either empty or has a br tag in it?