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

Quote from: sottwell at Sep 30, 2015, 07:03 AM

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

Thanks Susan, I see what you're doing there, but would that not effectively be the same as &includeDocs=`1, 2, 24, 170, 7, 13, 23`
&excludeDocs=`2`?

[[pdoMenu? &parents=`-1` &resources=`1, 24, 170, 7, 13, 23`]]

Cotton, that looks nice and simple. I almost ditched WF for pdoMenu, but now I know about it I may be tempted next time.

&parentRowTpl=`MyParentRowTpl`

Bob, I think that would work if it applied to all the parent rows. But my selection of pages to include doesn't follow any pattern, it's just a page here and a parent there.

This is one of these multi-day-consuming issues that make me realise how fast I got stuff done with bare-naked PHP, MySQL, JS, HTML & CSS. Addons are great, but almost always lead to a place where a normal thing becomes difficult. What's the best compromise I wonder?..

Thanks for your answers.

I also had a similar issue here: http://forums.modx.com/thread/97675/eval-array-parents-but-don-039-t-include-named-child-ids-in-input-or-output#dis-post-530940 where I could call the parents to get their children in an array and then 'skip' the parent to remove the parent resource only from the array (see #76 in the code in that post).

Don't know if that's of any use with WF or for your situation but I know that adding children and then removing the parent is possible.

This is one of these multi-day-consuming issues that make me realise how fast I got stuff done with bare-naked PHP, MySQL, JS, HTML & CSS. Addons are great, but almost always lead to a place where a normal thing becomes difficult. What's the best compromise I wonder?

I hear you, but I don't have a good answer. The menu at Bob's Guides is actually a mega-menu wrapper around a number of separate Wayfinder calls. I spent days on it, but couldn't get it to work any other way.

Thanks Cotton. I've done it now aand on to the next problem, but I'll keep that for future reference

Bob, I actually have done this too; I have a big footer menu constructed from 5 separate Wayfinder calls. It doesn't seem so bad when there are a lot of pages to display, but in my case, for only 6 pages, it showed up the inadequacy of WF. I think a wee change in WF would solve this: simply by making the parent dependency optional and allowing the &includeDocs list to be taken literally. Looks like pdoMenu already does this, but no reason not to keep improving WF. Seems a bit daft for a CMS with such pedigree to still have basic problems with its most widely-used(?) menu addon.